Pediatric Psychologist - CAC - SOM/Pediatrics - M89567

About the role

The Comprehensive Autonomic Center (CAC) at Children’s Hospital of Richmond is dedicated to delivering integrated, interdisciplinary, and developmentally informed care for children and young adults with complex autonomic disorders. The psychologist will play a vital role in delivering evidence-based clinical services, contributing to research initiatives, and shaping program development within the CAC.

Responsibilities

• Provide outpatient and day-treatment/inpatient evaluation and intervention services for children and young adults with autonomic disorders, including but not limited to postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), chronic fatigue syndrome, functional abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), cyclic vomiting syndrome, migraine, fibromyalgia, and other chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPC).
• Lead the pediatric and young adult day-program interdisciplinary treatment team, working closely with adult psychologists within the adult CAC programs to ensure continuity across the lifespan.
• Cross-cover pediatric GI psychology services—such as obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, and constipation/encopresis—and reciprocal coverage from psychologists within the GI program.
• Develop new clinical programs, including the integration of psychological services into emerging autonomic interdisciplinary clinics.
• Collaborate with medical and psychosocial teams, providing brief and longer-term psychological intervention.
• Participate in and help advance CAC-based research, including brain-imaging studies examining mechanisms underlying POTS and COPC.
• Engage in community education initiatives focused on pediatric pain and chronic overlapping pain conditions.
• Contribute to didactics, case conferences, and interdisciplinary training that strengthen understanding of autonomic disorders and chronic overlapping pain conditions.
• Collaborate with community pediatricians, hospital-based specialists, and colleagues across psychology and psychiatry to strengthen integrated care.

Qualifications

• Requires a doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology, with Virginia licensure or license-eligibility; board eligibility is required.
• Ideal candidates will have experience assessing and treating mental health concerns and complex pediatric medical conditions, including those outlined in the CAC program.
• Experience with clinical care of patients ages birth to 21.
• Experience with education of house-staff, medical students, and others.
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering an environment of respect, professionalism, and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from various backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU.