Open Rank - Child and Adoloscent Psychologist
Open Rank - Child and Adoloscent Psychologist
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Job Description
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine seeks to hire a fulltime child and adolescent psychology faculty member to work with adolescents and young adults to focus on the treatment of coexisting substance use behaviors. The psychologist will be clinically based in Butner NC at the Youth Behavioral Hospital YBH with occasional time also spent in a training and teaching capacity at the Department of Psychiatry Chapel Hill. YBH is a newly established and innovative 50 plus patient child and adolescent psychiatric hospital with four individual specialized units serving patients and families. This is a fulltime fixed term (clinical) position with the University of North Carolina Department of Psychiatry. The rank will be based on the qualifications of the applicant. The department of psychiatry faculty is committed to clinical service teaching and research and the department seeks to hire faculty with a commitment to this mission and to the service of people of North Carolina.
Preferred Qualifications Competencies And Experience
Training in child/adolescent adult or family mental health including prior completion of an APA approved internship specifically in a child training track and a child and adolescent fellowship or an equivalent. The successful candidates will have experience with programming and individual therapies for children adolescents or young adults who require hospitalization. Training and experience with models of family therapy and specialized behavioral plans while not required are preferred. Experience in providing services from a trauma informed care model in an inpatient or more intensive psychiatric setting are important. Knowledge of trauma therapies such as trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy are important to this position in that the position will involve the training and teaching of nursing and recreational therapy staff medical residents and interdisciplinary faculty. Expertise in substance use and/or dialectical behavioral models of group therapy are strongly preferred.
Employment Type
Full-Time
