Staff Psychologist

Position Summary

The Full-Time Staff Psychologist provides direct clinical services, including crisis intervention, diagnostic assessment, individual and group psychotherapy, triage evaluation, and outreach, to a diverse population of Health Sciences students at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in support of academic success and retention.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation, diagnosis, short-term treatment, consultation, and referrals, if necessary.
• Provision of crisis intervention in urgent situations.
• Provision of triage evaluation via telephone contact with students who request appointments.
• Provision of care in an interpersonally and culturally sensitive manner.
• Documentation of care as prescribed by law and in accordance with best practices.
• Outreach and education to students and the greater campus community.
• Participation in Quality Improvement activities.
• Participation in After Hours telephone on-call rotation including weeknights, weekends and holidays.
• Participation in academic inquiry and professional development according to identified interests and Counseling Services clinical issues.
• Committee participation and leadership as well as participation in team meetings.
• Clinical coordination and collaboration within Student Health on Haven.
• Performance of a variety of other job-related responsibilities as requested.

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology is required.
• Candidates will possess licensure or be license-eligible in the state of New York.
• A minimum of three years’ psychotherapy experience is required.
• Computer literacy required, including Microsoft Office, familiarity with electronic scheduling systems, and electronic medical records highly desirable.
• Evidence of experience working with distressed patients and/or on a psychiatric inpatient unit, or the functional equivalent, is required.
• Demonstrated competence in crisis intervention, assessing need for psychiatric hospitalization, handling psychiatric emergencies, and supervising referral for inpatient care is required.
• Demonstrated excellence in diagnosis, including mastery of diagnostic nomenclature, and in understanding best practices in diagnostic evaluations and time-limited psychotherapy is required.
• Demonstrated excellence in multicultural competency.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in urgent care coordination and high-risk psychological evaluations.
• Prior experience with and/or additional training in the psychological care of young adults with the following subspecialties: multicultural psychology, eating disorders, DBT, group therapy, campus outreach and substance abuse.
• Training and experience in short-term models of treatment.
• Prior experience working in a university mental health service or a comparable healthcare system.