Psychologist PhD

Saint Luke's Health System • Kansas City, MO

10d

About The Position

Provide integrated psychological services across inpatient and outpatient settings within multidisciplinary heart, liver, and kidney transplant teams, supporting patients throughout the transplant continuum. The role includes psychological evaluations, bedside and outpatient psychotherapy, individualized treatment planning, group facilitation, collaboration with transplant providers, and contributions to clinical research. As appropriate, the psychologist may supervise and mentor graduate-level psychology trainees.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology.
• Psychologist license through the Missouri Division of Professional Registration.
• Applicable experience: less than 1 year.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive psychological evaluations for transplant candidates and living donors using evidence-based assessment tools to evaluate mental health status, cognitive ability, surgical readiness, and psychosocial risk factors.
• Deliver bedside psychotherapy to critically ill patients before and after transplant, addressing acute psychological distress, adjustment to medical trauma, and complex emotional responses to life-threatening illness.
• Develop individualized treatment plans that incorporate social determinants of health and target modifiable psychosocial risk factors to enhance surgical outcomes and long-term recovery.
• Provide outpatient psychotherapy for people managing chronic organ disease, transplant-related challenges, and co-occurring substance use disorders, using evidence-based modalities including CBT, ACT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing.
• Facilitate psychoeducational and therapeutic groups focused on stress reduction, wellness promotion, relapse prevention, and adaptive coping strategies for chronic illness and recovery.
• Collaborate with transplant surgeons, hepatologists, cardiologists, nephrologists, addiction specialists, social workers, and allied health professionals to coordinate patient-centered care and advocate for integrating psychological services into transplant protocols.
• As appropriate, supervise and mentor graduate-level psychology trainees, including externs, interns, and postdoctoral fellows, providing clinical oversight, ethical guidance, and research mentorship.
• Partner with multidisciplinary transplant providers to develop and implement clinical research initiatives aimed at improving psychosocial assessment, treatment engagement, adherence, and outcomes among transplant candidates and recipients.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree