Clinical Psychologist - Intake - Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital - Per Diem - Night Shift

What You Will Do

• BH Clinical Psychologist performs psychological/diagnostic assessment and evidence-based treatment for mood, anxiety, thought, neurocognitive, intellectual, and personality disorders and behavior problems.
• Provides empirically-supported treatments.
• Demonstrates competence in group, individual, and family therapy is required.
• Serves as a consultant for the milieu program by assisting in the development, implementation of new programs as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Develops and provides staff training to enhance clinical knowledge and skills as necessary.
• Provides specialized clinical training for psychology trainees, including supervision/mentorship as needed per APA, APPIC, and BOP guidelines.
• Demonstrates commitment to ongoing professional-development.

Required Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Ph.D. or PsyD. from an APA accredited doctoral program in psychology, or an Ed.D from a doctoral program in Psychology.
• 1 Year experience (pre or post licensure) in an psychiatric treatment setting.
• Leadership experience.
• Experience in program development/evaluation.
• Certified California Licensed Clinical Psychologist (LCP) - CA Board of Psychology - REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association - REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

• Completion of an APA doctoral internship in clinical psychology.
• Completion of a postdoctoral fellowship in a relevant specialty area such as severe mental illness, trauma, psychosocial rehabilitation, cognitive behavior therapy.
• Experience supervising/training psychology students/interns/fellows.

Essential Functions

• Collaborates with clinical supervisor and interdisciplinary team to develop competency and acquire technical skills.
• Communicates with appropriate supervisor in a timely manner all patient safety issues (e.g., suspected abuse, possible Tarasoff reporting, suicidality, clinical or ethical concerns).
• Requests and accepts feedback and evidences self as a lifelong learner.
• Attends and actively participates in required treatment team meetings and clinical supervision.
• Maintains ongoing communication with multi-disciplinary team members regarding patient status and follow-up.
• Consults with team members in development of treatment plans.
• Attends treatment team and staff meetings inservices and case presentations as designated by unit/department/program.
• Arranges and facilitates patient care conferences for difficult/high-risk psychosocial cases to enhance resolution of identified issues.
• Identifies Bioethical dilemmas and initiates appropriate response.
• Testifies at Certification Review and Reise hearings regarding patient's current mental health status as appropriate.
• Consults, coordinates, and intervenes in crisis situations while assisting staff in de-escalating volatile situations and facilitating Code Green and critical incident debriefings.
• Develops interdisciplinary education to increase staff knowledge.
• Collaborates or seeks additional resources as needed to handle situations not covered by written or verbal instructions.
• Applies psychological principles that will directly result in improved outcomes as assessed by patient, family, physicians, and staff.
• Assists with matching therapeutic interventions with individual patient's developmental and psycho-social needs.
• Collaborates with treatment team and patient by gathering integral data to ensure the development of quantitative and evidence based treatment plans.
• Contributes to the development, implementation and updates of interdisciplinary plans of care.
• Interdisciplinary Consultation and Teamwork: Participates in interdisciplinary care by developing collaborative relationships with team members.
• Provides interdisciplinary team leadership and direction in conceptualization of complicated cases.
• Draws on theoretical and empirical knowledge and ties conceptualization to treatment planning.
• Independently and consistently provides effective consultation on a broad range of topics and with a variety of consultees.
• Maintains ongoing communication with interdisciplinary team members regarding patient status and follow-up.
• Regularly attends and participates actively in interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Assumes leadership role in interdisciplinary conference by initiating and facilitating communication.
• Consults with other departments as appropriate to provide for an interdisciplinary approach to the patient's needs.
• Provides and/or facilitates formal/informal staff education regarding psychosocial issues such as diagnosis, treatment plans, developmental issues, cultural issues, issues of sexuality, crisis intervention, bereavement, life adjustment, psychiatric issues and interventions for target populations.
• Upon request, serves as a hospital representative at presentations, speaking requests, and media events and can act as a resource to the community.
• Clinical Program Development: Designs, develops, and maintains quality programs for patients and staff and monitors these programs to ensure their effectiveness in collaboration with the unit leadership.
• Demonstrates independent ability to identify and implement relevant program evaluation approaches in a manner that is well-received by team.
• Demonstrates advanced understanding of program evaluation theories/models/methods.
• Actively involved in planning/monitoring/evaluating clinical programming in inpatient and/or outpatient arenas.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to establish and sustain high quality programs appropriate to short-stay/high acuity parameters associated with psychiatric patient population.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to evaluate patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates initiative and skill in applying theories and methods of program evaluation and uses results to inform ongoing program development and evaluation.
• May seek, develop and implement plans for grants and/or research opportunities.
• Clinical Supervision: Provides supervision to psychology trainees and consultative supervision to BHS staff as appropriate to ensure the quality of their professional development and services provided to patients.
• Serves as Clinical Supervisor for psychology practicum student(s), intern(s) and/or fellow(s).
• Provides didactic training, modeling, and consultation to BHS staff, as appropriate, to enhance BHS staff members ability to provide individualized patient care.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Demonstrated competence in group, individual, and family therapy-Required
• Highly effective interpersonal skills and oral and written presentation skills-Required
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional-development-Required
• Expertise in CBT, DBT, ACT, group therapy and the Recovery Model-Preferred

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class.