Psychology Intern

Penn Medicine • Lancaster, PA

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About The Position

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines. Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work? The position provides psychological evaluation and treatment services as directed and under supervision of a licensed LGH psychologist to inpatients and outpatients. Patient care includes care to patients in the following age groups: pediatric 30 days through 12 years, adolescent 13 through 18 years, adult 19 through 64 years, and geriatric 65 years and above.

Requirements

• Completion of all academic coursework required for Ph.D. or Psy.D., preferably from an APA accredited psychology program.
• Certification by doctoral program director of readiness for doctoral internship.
• A minimum of 400 hours of doctoral level practicum experience.
• A health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs.
• Prior hospital-based experience.
• Strong concentration skills.
• Ability to learn and retain material efficiently.
• Problem solving, reasoning, and creative thinking skills.
• Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.
• Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations.
• Ability to perform a variety of duties without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
• Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment.

Responsibilities

• Provides psychological testing evaluation services for outpatients as assigned and completes summary reports of assessments to the referral source within one week of completing the assessment.
• Provides psychological therapies to outpatients as assigned and always provides patient progress reports to referral source as indicated.
• Provides psychological testing evaluation consultations and interventions to medical surgical inpatients as requested or assigned within 24 hours and clearly documents findings and recommendations in the medical record.
• Completes required forms and documents all patient contacts in the outpatient and inpatient medical record in order to provide a continually up-to-date assessment of patient status.
• Regularly participates in treatment team and departmental meetings.
• Regularly participates in education and in-service training opportunities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits program.
• Prepaid tuition assistance program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree