Psychology Resident - Downtown Clinic, Psychological Assessment

University of Utah Health • Salt Lake City, UT

22h • Onsite

About The Position

This postdoctoral residency position is twelve months in duration and is responsible for providing psychological evaluations and consultations; individual, family/marital, and group intervention to children, adolescent and adult patients in both inpatient and partial hospitalization settings. The Huntsman Mental Health Institute Downtown Behavioral Health Clinic is a robust, multidisciplinary outpatient clinic that serves patients of all ages for individual and group therapy, medication management, neuropsychological testing and case management services. Psychology residents in the Downtown Behavioral Health Clinic provide neuropsychological testing services to individuals and families impacted by depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorders, and other general behavioral health conditions. Residents in this clinic will treat a wide variety of patient types and utilize many different testing tools, under the supervision of a PhD or PsyD within the clinic. Components of this residency include evaluation, neuropsychological testing, including testing administration and report writing, as well as providing feedback sessions to patients and their families. Residents in this rotation will also gain experience of functioning semi-independently within a complex behavioral health clinic. The University of Utah is a Level 1 Trauma Center and is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. Our five hospitals and eleven clinics provide excellence in our comprehensive services, medical advancement, and overall patient outcomes.

Requirements

• Ability to complete work in a timely fashion, balance training goals with clinical demands, and adhere to the managed care policies that do not allow interns to provide and/or bill for their clinical services.
• Must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit.
• Knowledge of the principles of life span growth and development.
• Ability to assess data regarding the patient's status and provide care as described in the department's policies and procedures manual.
• Ph.D. or Psy.D. degree from an APA accredited graduate program in counseling, school or clinical psychology.
• Completion of an APA-approved doctoral internship.
• 400 hours of practicum experience.
• Internship authorization and coursework verification.
• Current RQI Healthcare Provider eCredential through the University of Utah Health RQI system. The eCredential is to be obtained within 30 days of hire.
• Additional license requirements as determined by the hiring department.

Nice To Haves

• Hospital-based psychological practices.
• Experience with individual, family, and group psychotherapy; and a variety of assessment experiences including intellectual, neuropsychological, and affective/behavioral assessment.

Responsibilities

• Attends rounds with the multidisciplinary treatment team and reviews patient treatment and progress.
• Administers varied psychological assessments.
• Provides direct service delivery in individual and/or family therapy, and group psychotherapy.
• Participates in didactic seminars, weekly supervision, and individual evaluations during each rotation.
• Maintains medical records and current charting on assigned patients, and complies with quality assurance standards related to this documentation.
• Informs supervisor of therapeutic interventions and assessments taken with each patient.
• Complies with the ethical principles of psychologists published by the American Psychological Association, with the Utah State Psychologists Licensing Act, and with all psychology staff policies and procedures at the University of Utah.
• Provides group supervision to psychology interns and supervises practicum students in providing group therapy.
• May participate in an organization for psychology interns.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees