Psychologist II

Sutter Health•San Francisco, CA

3d•$63 - $95

About The Position

Provides mental health services to child, adolescent and adult inpatient and outpatient clients and their families. These services require autonomous decision making, assessment, treatment planning, interventions, discharge planning and internal and external community resource coordination. Performs other duties as assigned, including consultation with other clinical staff and supervision with psychology interns/post doctorates. This psychologist will be housed in the Kalmanovitz Child Development Center, the developmental and behavioral pediatrics departments of CPMC. This role will focus exclusively on therapy and assessment with children and adolescents and will incorporate family therapy, parent consultation, behavioral health outreach, and supervision and teaching of postdoctoral psychology fellows with an emphasis on child/adolescent development and mental health.

Requirements

Doctorate: PHd or PsyD in Psychology from an accredited institution.
2 years of recent relevant experience.
PSY - Psychologist licensed in the state of practice
Knowledge of human development, psychological treatment, and intervention modalities with children, adolescents, and adults.
Knowledge of psychosocial factors relevant to mental health, such as personality, human growth and development, interpersonal relationships, group process, family dynamics, community integration, and socioeconomic resource provisions, including the relevance of these factors for personal change in treatment.
Knowledge of and adherence to American Psychological Association ethical standards.
Knowledge of the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, psychotherapeutic modalities, and interventions, including psychotropic medications.
Ability to effectively work with a wide range of psychiatric treatment problems of children, adolescents, adults, and their families.
Ability to cooperatively work as part of a multidisciplinary treatment team.
Ability to make sound clinical decisions regarding assessing patients' acuity and appropriate dispositions.

Responsibilities

Provides mental health services to child, adolescent and adult inpatient and outpatient clients and their families.
Autonomous decision making, assessment, treatment planning, interventions, discharge planning and internal and external community resource coordination.
Performs other duties as assigned, including consultation with other clinical staff and supervision with psychology interns/post doctorates.
Therapy and assessment with children and adolescents
Family therapy
Parent consultation
Behavioral health outreach
Supervision and teaching of postdoctoral psychology fellows with an emphasis on child/adolescent development and mental health.