To provide quality psychological services to adult, adolescent and child psychiatric patient population (age range approximately 5 and up) and their families, spouse, significant other; to serve as a member of interdisciplinary team supporting the organization's treatment program and philosophy and assure the deliverance of quality treatment to psychiatric patients and their families.

Position provides the required 1500 hours of supervision for the CA Board of Psychology under a Licensed Clinical Psychologist.

*Pay Range: $33/hr. to $35/hr.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in mandatory orientation and training and supervision activities.

• Conducts initial psychological assessments to document history and identify preliminary issues for treatment focus by interviewing the patient and consulting with collateral sources, the treatment team, and review of the medical chart.

• Provides process-oriented group and individual therapies as well as conducts psycho-educational and other didactic groups for patients and family members using various professional treatment modalities e.g. (CBT, DBT, ACT).

• Completes psychological discharge summary to document treatment provided and current discharge status.

• Attends regular treatment team meetings to provide psychology/ therapist perspective on treatment goals, progress and future needs and issues.

• Reports to community/state agencies any patient issues required and represents facility in any legal proceedings.

• Demonstrates conduct in keeping with Aurora ethical standards.

• Complies with facility safety, infection control and security program.

• Participates in activities, which enhance professional growth and development.

• Supports facility internal and external customer service standards.

• Doctoral degree (PhD, or PsyD) in Clinical Psychology.

• BLS (Basic Life Support ) Certification for Healthcare Providers following the American Heart Association guidelines

• Knowledge and experience with acute psychological disorders; advanced principals of clinical psychology as specifically applied to adults, children, and adolescents; skills in conducting individual and group therapy.

• Experience in an inpatient setting strongly preferred.

• Excellent written and oral communications skills, skills in psychotherapy, time management, and crisis intervention common to acute psychotic as well as to non-violent crises intervention practice.

• Skills in maintaining information as highly confidential; must demonstrate the ability to treat other age populations as needed or have the capacity to develop skills through the organization's cross-training, orientation program. Ability to clearly summarize pertinent clinical information via written correspondence and medical records documentation.

• 401K Retirement Plan
• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Healthcare Spending Account & Dependent Care Spending Account
• Life Insurance (Supplemental Life, Term, and Universal plans are also available.)
• PTO Plan
• Holiday Premium Pay
• PTO Cash Out option
• Sick Pay
• Short and Long-Term Disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• ID Theft Protection

• Employee Appreciation Events

• Employee Discount Opportunities