Staff Psychologist

Location

Hampton, VA | United States

Job description

$10,000 Sign-on Bonus

Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 5 pm

Join the Hampton - Newport News Community Services Board as a Staff Psychologist. As part of the Child and Adolescent Outpatients Clinic, this position provides p sychological assessment and evaluation services. These services encompass personality, educational, parental competency, court, developmental, vocational, disability, and neuropsychological evaluations. Your role as a Staff Psychologist will include:

Psychological Evaluations

• Perform psychological evaluations
• Perform court-ordered evaluations and ensure their completion in a timely manner.
• Provide oversight of psychological evaluations referred from within the CSB and outside referral sources and maintain communication with referral agents
• Supervise psychometrics, Residents and Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Interns responsible for completing psychological evaluations.
• Coordinate psychological evaluations with other evaluations.
• Maintain and expand library of testing materials.

Assessment and Research

• Train staff in use of outcomes assessment instruments.
• Provide oversight of data analysis and interpretation.
• Support efforts to obtain grants and maintain existing grant-funded programs.

Consultation, Training, and Community Involvement

• Participate in case consultation with Case Management and Community Care Coordination staff.
• Consult with staff throughout CSB regarding use of psychological evaluations and forensic assessment.
• Train YFS staff on diagnostic and assessment issues.
• Provides clinical supervision for licensure to staff within your division, or throughout the agency as needed.
• Represent CSB at Hampton Utilization Review Team Meetings.

Outpatient Psychotherapy

• Maintain small caseload of therapy clients.
• Co-facilitate therapy groups as needed.

Requirements: Licensed as a Clinical Psychologist, with one year of experience in a clinical setting working with emotionally troubled children and affected families including experience performing comprehensive psychological evaluations and therapy.

Current H-NNCSB employees are not eligible for a Sign-on Bonus.

The selected candidate must successfully pass a criminal history fingerprint background investigation, DMV record check, Child Registry search, drug screening test and employment reference checks.

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Salary

$65.56k