Pediatric Psychologist

La Rabida Children's Hospital•Chicago, IL

14h•Onsite

About The Position

La Rabida Children’s Hospital provides specialized, family-centered health care to children with medically complex conditions, disabilities, and chronic illness. It is a not-for-profit hospital licensed for 49 beds, helping transition children from neonatal or pediatric intensive care to home, providing medical, rehabilitative and developmental care, and training families. La Rabida also offers extensive rehabilitation for those recovering from wounds or burns and treatment for exacerbations of chronic conditions. The hospital provides primary care to children with complex medical conditions and their siblings, and specialty services for conditions like sickle cell disease and diabetes. Children's emotional and developmental growth is supported, especially after accident or disease. Additionally, La Rabida provides forensic and treatment services for children exposed to abuse and neglect, comprehensive assessments for youth in care, early intervention for children 0-3 years, and care coordination services for medically complex children in Cook County. The Pediatric Psychologist functions independently and professionally to provide high-quality, trauma-informed psychological services to inpatients, outpatients, and their families.

Requirements

Ph.D. or Psy.D. in Clinical (child or pediatric) Psychology
APA internship in child or pediatric psychology
Training/experience in pediatric health psychology
Current Illinois Registration/licensure in Clinical Psychology or eligible and able to attain within 90 days of hire
CPR certification issued by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross

Nice To Haves

Experience working with children in a medical setting
Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary medical team
A pediatric psychology fellowship
Training in neuropsychological assessment
Training in operant and cognitive behavioral techniques
Experience with child abuse victims
Experience with chronically ill children
Supervisory experience
A strong research background

Responsibilities

Applies knowledge and expertise of therapeutic techniques to assist children, adolescents, and their families cope adaptively with behavioral problems including attentional disorders, learning and school problems, trauma exposure and symptomology, behavioral problems, and others.
Utilizes techniques including, but not limited to, individual psychotherapy, family therapy, group therapy, short term therapy, long term therapy, and crisis intervention.
Provides consultation/liaison services and follow up care to patients being seen during outpatient medical appointments a minimum of 7 hours per week.
Consults and collaborates with the multidisciplinary outpatient health care team to ensure psychological services are integrated into patient’s treatment.
May be required to develop and implement specific diagnostic programs and/or treatment programs (“clinics”) for specific patient populations (e.g., incontinence, pain management).
Provides short term and long term evidence based behavioral health services to patients and their families, including individual, family and group therapy, with a minimum of 14 scheduled sessions per week.
Utilizes evidenced based models of care (CBT, TF-CBT, ARC, CPP, MI, ST, SFBT, play therapy, relationship based therapy).
Independently conducts clinical intake assessments and assigns DSM 5/ICD-10/DC:0-5 diagnosis.
Issues and scores various scales and measures to evaluate functioning and for diagnostic clarification.
Administers psychological and psychoeducational tests as needed, formulates reports and treatment plans.
Initiates the interpretation of results to medical, nursing, and Pediatric Psychology staff.
Develops a comprehensive treatment plan based on psychological evaluation, clinical interview(s), and other data.
Works a minimum of 8 hours per week in direct work with inpatient children.
Responsible for case management of patients so that appropriate psychological and psychosocial services are delivered within the hospital and/or via community resources.
Maintains follow-up contact with the patient, the family and other agencies to assure that the required and recommended services are obtained by the patient and/or the family.
May be involved in education and training programs for other students and staff members, both inside and outside of the Division of Behavioral Health.
Conducts in-service training and educational seminars for hospital staff, parents and/or community agencies as required.
Provides supervision to interns, externs and post-doctoral fellows (when licensed in Illinois).
Plays an active role in the recruitment of trainees (interns, externs and post-doctoral fellows).
Serves as a member of the Pediatric Psychology training committee.
Ensures a minimum of 70% of work is in direct patient/family contact.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Maintains accurate and up-to-date records and statistical reports.
Has scheduled evening hours to meet the needs of patients.
May have weekend hours should the need arise.
Supports new program development to provide innovative care to children served by La Rabida Children’s Hospital.