Child and Adolescent Psychologist
Child and Adolescent Psychologist
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Job Description
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina UNC School of Medicine at Chapel Hill is seeking a psychologist specializing in child and adolescent mental health to join their outpatient team. The University is committed to the expansion of child and adolescent mental health and to the increased access to high quality empirically validated therapeutic services for adolescents and young adults with more significant risk or mental health conditions. The position would primarily involve outpatient work at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program in Chapel Hill NC and will ideally engage referrals from the local Youth Behavioral Health hospital inpatient units and intensive outpatient program IOP at UNC . Primary duties will involve providing outpatient psychotherapy to children adolescents and young adults and offering neurocognitive testing and personality or behavioral structure assessments to these population increasing access to care and treatment planning. Additional opportunities would include teaching and supervising psychiatry residents medical students and other healthcare trainees who rotate throughout the department. This position will include direct patient care both inperson and in virtual contexts and may also include settings within the larger UNC hospital (e.g. programming work on the child and adolescent inpatient units; therapy services within the Center for Womens Mood Disorders). There are also opportunities for providing group family and/or parenting therapy services depending on the clinical interests of the faculty member. An expectation of the position will be the supervision of graduate level psychology students. Given this positions primary aim of providing services to youth discharging from intensive programs the ideal candidate will have a background in addressing complex mental health concerns and/or trauma and managing highrisk clients with a focus on treating mood disorders and/or serious mental health presentations. Faculty will be required to provide outpatient therapy to approximately 24 patients per week. As a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina Department of Psychiatry the position will require teaching and supervision as described below and engagement in research. Research expectations will depend on the interests and prior investment in research on behalf of the qualified candidate.
Preferred Qualifications Competencies And Experience
Training in child and adolescent mental health including prior completion of an APA approved internship specifically in a child training track and a child and adolescent structured Clinical Psychology Fellowship in Child and Adolescent. Clinical Psychology doctoral degree preferred. Experience in an academic medical setting or primary healthcare setting strongly preferred.
Employment Type
Full-Time
