Psychologist Level II

About the role

Marketing Statement Queens Hospital Center is making good on its promise to the people of southeastern and central Queens to maximize both patient convenience and positive clinical outcomes. Residents of Queens can count on the delivery of quality medical care right in their own borough. In 2002 the hospital opened a state-of-the-art, 261-bed facility that includes the Queens Cancer Center, the first comprehensive cancer treatment center in the borough. At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive assessment, confirmation of diagnosis, consultation, and brief intervention for less complex presentations of behavioral conditions
• Consult with integrated care team (PCP and CHW) to provide effective treatment planning and assist patients in successfully achieving goals
• Contribute to the development of care management processes such as the use of guidelines, disease management techniques, case management, and patient education to improve self-management of chronic disease
• Provide timely feedback to the PCP and others involved in patient care, both verbally and through documentation of patient progress and diagnostic information in the patient record
• Teach patients, families, and staff care, prevention, and treatment enhancement techniques
• Assist in the detection of “at risk” patients and development of plans to prevent further psychological or physical deterioration
• Actively participate in meetings to support implementation and improvement of practice’s integrated care model
• Monitor the practice’s behavioral health program, identifying problems related to patient services and making recommendations for improvement
• Participate in developmental, social-emotional and behavioral screenings at designated points for children from birth through adolescence, and mental health, ACES, and other screenings for caregivers
• Provide consultation services, support, and positive parenting guidance to families with developmental and behavioral concerns about child
• Help families advocate for their child with behavioral health referrals
• Provide integrated behavioral health services, including psychotherapy, in pediatric primary care for school-aged, adolescent and young adult patients, as part of the pediatric care team
• Conduct parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT), parent-child psychotherapy (PCP), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TFCBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for selected patients as well as other clinically sound approaches to address concerns.
• Co-lead psycho-educational and psychotherapeutic groups (e.g., parent-child groups, fathers’ groups, adolescent and multidisciplinary healthy lifestyles [obesity] groups)
• Participate in multidisciplinary group care “Centering” programs.
• Help families smoothly transition among women’s health clinic, NICU, pediatrics primary care, and behavioral health services, as well as transition from adolescent to adult care services.
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