Psychology Faculty

Brenau University • Gainesville, GA

11d • Onsite

About The Position

This faculty member will have a joint appointment with Brenau and North Georgia Medical Center, with 18.75 hours per week at each site. For Brenau, this faculty member will serve as the Assistant Coordinator for the Brenau Doctoral Internship housed in Gainesville, GA. NGMC: The Director of Psychotherapy Training provides essential leadership and oversight of the psychiatry residency’s psychotherapy curriculum, ensuring compliance with ACGME requirements, maintaining high-quality education, and supporting resident clinical competence in the three ACGME core psychotherapy modalities (CBT, psychodynamic, and supportive/humanistic). This role ensures adherence to ACGME psychotherapy training standards, enhances resident competence and preparedness for independent practice, supports program reputation, resident satisfaction, and faculty development, and provides continuity and leadership in core educational initiatives critical to residency success.

Requirements

• PhD/PsyD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology or a related field
• Licensed as Psychologist in Georgia
• Three years of clinical practice, including in psychological assessments
• Two years of experience in providing clinical supervision
• Successful applicants must be eligible to work in the United States on or before the confirmed start date. This includes being a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident, or a foreign national with work authorization that doesn't require employer sponsorship. Individuals must maintain this eligibility throughout employment.
• Must be at least 21 years of age, possess a valid Georgia driver’s license, and good driving record.
• All new hires must undergo a criminal background check. To maintain employment, individuals must have and maintain a favorable criminal history. The university may also conduct random background checks. Additional checks may be performed for certain roles.
• Employees who operate a university vehicle or drive on university business must have a Motor Vehicle Report (MVR) run as part of the new hire process or as the requirement to drive is added to job responsibilities. To be approved for university travel, employees must meet the following criteria: be at least 21 years old, have and maintain a valid Georgia driver's license, and have and maintain a good driving record.
• As a condition of employment, employees must report any arrest (within five days of its occurrence) to the Office of Human Resources, including traffic violations for those listed on our auto insurance policy. Disclosure of subsequent legal action (conviction, dismissal of charges, etc.) must also be reported to the Office of Human Resources. It will be evaluated considering continued employment with the immediate supervisor.
• Subject to random criminal history background checks.
• Must be willing to submit to and pass a pre-employment criminal background check.
• Proof of any professional degree, license, or certification (collectively, “Credentials”) required to competently perform the work for which the employee is hired must have been submitted at the time of application for the position. Discovery during the course of employee’s employment that applicable Credentials have lapsed, been terminated, were misrepresented, or were falsified may result in immediate termination of employee’s employment.

Nice To Haves

• Credit Checks: required for positions that handle university funds or credit cards or as otherwise required.
• Drug Screening: pre-employment/post-offer drug screens and random drug screens are performed for certain sensitive positions. Random drug screens are also performed on those who travel regularly, or those who operate a university vehicle. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug screening.

Responsibilities

• Assist with planning and organizing the doctoral psychology internship run out of the Ivester House location of the Brenau Center for Counseling and Psychological Services.
• Assist in recruitment and selection process for interns
• Maintain awareness of internship requirements and communicate the requirements to all agencies involved in the internship; assist with ensuring compliance with training and APA/APPIC accreditation standards.
• Maintain communication and contracts/MOUs with partner agencies, contribute to the evaluation of progress of interns.
• Assist with planning and managing intern rotations across sites and verify qualifications of site supervisors; ensure that interns receive a high-quality and comprehensive training experience.
• Provide clinical supervision to interns for their clinical work at the Ivester House and partner sites, including supervision of psychological assessments and clinical documentation.
• Plan and manage required didactic training, including scheduling didactic trainers from partner sites.
• Assist with managing program evaluation of internship collaborative
• Provide clinical teaching through individual supervision of graduate students placed at the Ivester House who are seeing therapy and assessment clients.
• Assist in hiring clinic staff including clinic coordinators
• Assist with orienting and training doctoral interns, graduate student counselors, and clinic coordinators at Ivester House
• Serve as on-call clinical supervisor as needed.
• Provide limited clinical services at the Ivester House clinic (approximately 5 clients per week, which could include psychological assessment clients)
• Possible supervision of dissertation research/chairing dissertation committees
• Oversees Wednesday didactics and attends all Wednesdays to help with coordination across speakers.
• Oversees the following recurring yearly seminars (6 lectures each): introductory psychodynamic therapy (PDT101/201), advanced psychodynamic therapy (PDT301/401), CBT101/201, DBT301/401, and ACT301/401.
• Leads a monthly ethics/professionalism series (ETH101-401), a monthly psychotherapy case conference series (PCC101-401), and oversees monthly simulation afternoons (SIM101-401).
• Assists in identifying external speakers for the monthly department grand rounds series, and gives at least two faculty development lectures each year.
• Screens all resident clinic psychotherapy referrals and triages cases to ensure full resident caseloads.
• Supervises PGY3&4 psychotherapy clinics and notes, oversees three weekly supervision groups (including leading one on CBT themselves), and coordinates finding weekly individual resident supervisors.
• Manages the residency’s four monthly process/T/Balint groups for all classes (including leading one themselves) and the formal mentorship program which pairs all residents with faculty and senior resident mentors.
• Directly mentors at least two residents.
• Participates in weekly leadership meetings (Wednesdays from 11-12 PM), serves on the Clinical Competency Committee and Program Evaluation Committee, advises on all quality improvement initiatives within the residency, and represents faculty on the Resident Committee on Community.
• Engages in ongoing scholarly activity and professional development to model and promote excellence in psychotherapy training.
• Supports residency recruitment through application review, interviews, and recruitment fairs; attends national conferences to maintain expertise (including maintaining an active membership in AADPRT), represent the program, and implement best practices in psychotherapy education.
• Recruits and coordinates adjunct faculty members involved in psychotherapy training.
• Supervision of clinical work of Doctoral Psychology Interns as well as other graduate students providing services at the Ivester House at Brenau is required as well as supervisor of Psychiatry Residents at NGMC.

Benefits

• Dependent upon employment status, years of service and worker category. Explore all that Brenau offers for Your Health, Your Mind, Your Finances, & Our Community here: https://intranet.brenau.edu/human-resources/job-opportunities/

What This Job Offers

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