Psychologist (Clinical) (40 Hour) Hybrid #260727-6629FL-002

Join a specialized statewide team where your expertise supports young adults with the most complex clinical, behavioral, and neurocognitive needs. The State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), Office of the Commissioner (OOC), is hiring a Psychologist (Clinical) for the Young Adult Services (YAS) Clinical Assessment and Consultation (CAC) Team.

Location: Middletown, CT (primary office on the Connecticut Valley Hospital campus)
Schedule: Full-Time, 40 Hours/Week, Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Travel: Statewide travel required to DMHAS agencies, partner sites, and community organizations

About the Role

In this centralized and highly collaborative role, you will provide expert clinical consultation, develop comprehensive behavioral support plans, and conduct psychological and neuropsychological assessments for young adults served across Connecticut's YAS inpatient and outpatient network.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive, community-based behavioral support plans for YAS clients referred due to the high severity of their problem behaviors
• Provide psychological consultations addressing diagnosis, developmental disorders, trauma assessment and treatment, placement needs, treatment recommendations, and crisis behavior planning
• Conduct and interpret psychological testing
• Provide training and supervision in functional analysis, positive programming, and behavioral interventions
• Support YAS program development, planning, and service evaluation
• Participate in multidisciplinary case reviews, interagency coordination, and high-level consultation across the statewide YAS network
• Travel statewide to collaborate with DMHAS agencies, inpatient units, community providers, and partner organizations
• Participates in and coordinates clinical psychological services for a complex ward or group of wards or comparable units staffed by psychiatric, nursing or other individual care personnel
• Provides consultation on difficult cases representing complex intellectual, emotional and/or social problems
• Engages in diagnostic and psychotherapeutic services
• Attends staff meetings; coordinates psychological treatment modalities with other disciplines and services
• Develops and implements new service programs
• Conducts research and reports findings in a manner suitable for professional publication
• Consults with community agencies and organizations
• Conducts training sessions for interns and staff and may participate in training of psychiatric residents
• May address lay and professional groups

About Us

DMHAS is a health care agency whose mission is to promote the overall health and wellness of persons with behavioral health needs through an integrated network of holistic, comprehensive, effective, and efficient services and supports that foster dignity, respect, and self-sufficiency in those we serve.

Requirements

• A doctorate degree in clinical or counseling psychology and one (1) year of post-doctoral experience as a psychologist working under the supervision of a licensed psychologist
• Must possess and retain a license to practice psychology in Connecticut (exemptions apply for those employed prior to July 1, 1985)
• Must possess and maintain eligibility for participation in federal health care programs as defined in 42 U.S.1320a-7b(f)
• May be required to be fluent in a foreign language or proficient in the use of American Sign Language
• May be required to travel

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience conducting comprehensive assessments of young adults with autism spectrum disorders, neurobehavioral conditions, and attachment or trauma-related challenges
• Experience developing and implementing individualized behavior support plans

Skills

• Considerable knowledge of abnormal and clinical psychology
• Skill in selection, administration, scoring, and evaluation of intelligence, achievement, personality, and diagnostic tests
• Knowledge of psychological research methodology including experimental design, data analysis, and application of findings
• Knowledge of other psychological disciplines
• Considerable interpersonal skills
• Oral and written communication skills
• Ability to make clinical diagnoses and prognoses and develop treatment plans
• Ability to conduct psychotherapy and write case histories, discharge summaries, and professional reports
• Ability to coordinate clinical services with comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment plans

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits (visit the State Employee Benefits Overview page to learn more)
• Opportunities for professional development, training, and career growth
• A supportive environment that values collaboration, compassion, and work/life balance

Working Conditions

• May be required to lift and restrain individuals
• May have some exposure to communicable/infectious diseases and to risk of injury from assaultive/abusive individuals
• May be exposed to disagreeable conditions