Psych Postdoctoral Fellow - Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (Advanced Clinical Psychology)
About The Position
The Advanced Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center is a time-limited, advanced training position within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences focused on the assessment and treatment of individuals with severe and complex psychiatric and co-occurring medical conditions. The fellowship provides supervised practitioner-scholar training designed to prepare fellows for independent clinical practice in an academic medical center through evidence-based assessment, psychotherapy, consultation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Requirements
- PhD or PsyD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology, or completion of all degree requirements, including a one-year full-time internship from an APA-accredited program.
- All degree requirements, including successful dissertation defense, must be completed prior to the start of the fellowship.
- Training in an APA accredited or approved PhD or PsyD program in Clinical or Counseling Psychology.
- Relevant practitioner-scholar training experience in Neurorehabilitation Psychology; Child and Adolescent Psychology; Clinical Health Psychology; and/or Advanced Clinical Psychology.
Responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive assessments of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning.
- Conduct individual psychotherapy and behavioral health interventions for patients with a wide range of psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, addictions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and personality disorders.
- Provide clinical services for patients with co-occurring medical and neurological conditions, including but not limited to neurological, cardiac, and endocrine disorders.
- Address complex clinical presentations, including suicide risk, acute mental status changes, treatment noncompliance, and capacity evaluations.
- Participate in interdisciplinary care teams to support diagnosis, treatment planning, and ongoing patient management across medical and psychiatric settings.
- Deliver evidence-based interventions tailored to acute, chronic, and complex clinical populations within an academic medical center environment.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health expense accounts with generous employer contributions
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Various additional voluntary insurance plans
- Paid time off, including vacation and sick
- Ten paid holidays
- One paid discretionary day after six months of employment
- Paid time off for bereavement, jury duty, military service, and parental leave after 12 months of employment
- Retirement program with a generous employer contribution
- Additional voluntary retirement programs (457 or 403b)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
