Pediatric Clinical Psychologist

Carolinas Medical Center; Oak Lawn (IL); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits eligible

Job summary

Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, IL, seeks a Clinical Psychologist to join the Childhood Trauma Treatment Program (CTTP). The role focuses on direct services and core faculty responsibilities, including running an assessment clinic under supervision and providing evidence-based care to children, adolescents, and families.

CTTP has APA accreditation and offers opportunities to train doctoral externs, interns, and postdocs, fostering professional growth within a collaborative clinical

Qualifications

• Competency in psychological assessment is of high interest.
• Possibility to run/support the assessment clinic under supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provision of Clinical Psychological Services.
• Psychodiagnostic assessment according to DSM criteria and established protocol.
• Psychotherapy on an individual, family, and/or group basis.
• Develop goal-oriented treatment plans with patient and family.
• Oversee psychological assessment/testing and reporting.

Skills

Psychological assessment

Psychotherapy

DSM criteria

Clinical supervision

Job description

Department:

12603 Advocate Christ Medical Center - Childhood Trauma Treatment Program (CTTP)

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hou rs Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Monday-Friday, provider creates schedule; late afternoons and evenings are common; mix of telehealth and in person.

Pay Range:

$54.90 - $82.35

General Summary:

The Clinical Psychologist in this role would join our clinical team at the Advocate Childhood Trauma Treatment Program (CTTP). CTTP has been providing care to children, adolescents, and families since 1979 to support their healing from experiences of abuse, maltreatment, and trauma. CTTP also provides training for doctoral externs, interns, and postdoctoral fellows to increase competency in the use of evidence-based practice for childhood trauma and has been accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1999 *(reaccredited 2024 for 10 years). The position will include 2 primary areas of responsibility: 1) Providing direct service and 2) Being a member of our core faculty. *Candidates with competency in psychological assessment are of high interest as we are looking for someone to run/support our assessment clinic in their supervisory role.

Major Responsibilities:

• Provision of Clinical Psychological Services
• Counseling and Psychotherapy . Conducts psychodiagnostic assessment (i.e. diagnostic evaluation) according to established clinical protocol, formulates case conceptualization (i.e. diagnostic impression of presenting problem), establishes psychiatric diagnosis according to DSM criteria, recommend appropriate treatment plan and documents according to established department procedures and hospital policies.
• Provides diagnostic consultative services as ordered by the physician.
• Provides psychotherapy on an individual, family and/or group basis following acceptable clinical guidelines for specific clinical disorders.
• Formulates goal-oriented treatment plan with expected outcomes in collaboration with the patient and family where appropriate.
• Educates patient and family (where appropriate) regarding the nature of the patient's illness, it's expected course, treatment of illness and alternative treatments.
• Assess patient's and the patient family's level of understanding and motivation and level of compliance to engage in treatment according to plan, including their expected roles in the treatment process and makes appropriate changes in treatment plan as needed.
• Develops plan to incorporate community-based resources as appropriate.
• Develops strategies where appropriate to assist families and other health care providers in management of the patient's behaviors and illness.
• Psychological Assessment: Conducts the overseeing of preliminary assessment to determine the appropriateness of the psychological testing as well as the selection of appropriate tests designed to address specific diagnostic questions.
• Oversees psychological assessment/testing , scoring and interprets results in accordance with established procedures and standards
• Oversees psychological testing report and documents findings according to established procedures and standards.

Program Specific Activities:

• Designs clinical programs as appropriate and as assigned or approved by the Director.
• Coordinates the clinical services of staff providing clinical supervision as appropriate and as assigned by the Director.
• Evaluates program performance in terms of process and outcome.
• Works collaboratively with other staff and professional on projects of this nature.
• Provides the Director with regular reports .regarding all aspects of program development and evaluation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education, Training and Research:

• Provides education to patients and families about the role of the psychological factors in illness, treatment and recovery from illness.
• Provides other health care providers (i.e. nurses, therapists, aids) with education regarding psychological factors in illness, treatment, and recovery from illness as well as approach to and management of patient and families
• Provides other professionals (i.e. psychologists, physicians, social workers, residents) with education regarding psychological factors in illness, treatment and recovery, as well as management of patient and families.
• Presents educational material in formal settings (i.e. rounds, seminars) inside and outside of the hospital setting as assigned.
• Presents educational issues to the community.
• Provides clinical training and supervision to psychology graduate students, medical residents and students according to departmental procedures, hospital policies, Division and Department standards, and Standards of Practice for Psychologists as authorized by the Director. Seeks authorization from the Director for any psychology student training, including both clinical and research training.
• Provides clinical supervision of staff as appropriate as assigned by the Director.
• Provides the Director with regular re