Licensed Psychologist

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve.

We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to be the nation's leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve.

We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education: We will prepare tomorrow's health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.

Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources.

We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

Position Summary

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Pediatrics invites applications for a full-time, fixed term Child and Adolescent Psychologist. The psychologist role will include direct clinical care in the following capacities: functioning as a core member of a multidisciplinary team providing behavioral health to children and adolescents within the North Carolina Bladen County school setting.

The care for children and adolescents will be conducted with mental health clinicians embedded in the schools and utilizing virtual care technology to incorporate the expertise of leading specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry, pharmacy, and other pediatric specialties from UNC-Chapel Hill. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team, including therapists, a community health worker, a pharmacist, and a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Clinical providers will provide diagnoses and therapy for children and adolescents with conditions including but not limited to anxiety, depression, ADHD, ODD.

In this role, the psychologist will at times work with patients in high, acuity situations. The faculty member will provide direct patient care, support and supervision for master's level clinicians as well as participate in multidisciplinary meetings and support with some aspects of clinical care management.

Principal duties will include: Screen and assess patients for mental health and substance abuse disorders; Provide diagnostic testing as clinically indicated including testing for ADHD, mood disorders, and autism spectrum disorder; Provide patient education about mental health disorders and available treatment options specific to this population; Monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms using evidence-based tools and treatment side effects or complications; Support psychotropic medication management prescribed by child psychiatrist, focusing on treatment adherence, side effects and other complications, and effectiveness of treatment; Provide clinical interventions using evidence-based techniques (e.g., Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Problem Solving Therapy (PST), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)) as clinically indicated; Provide evidence-based psychosocial treatments as clinically indicated; Participate in regularly scheduled (usually weekly) caseload consultation with the psychiatrist and other clinicians; Support, and closely coordinate mental health care with the other members of the team, the patients' family, the patient's primary care provider (PCP) when necessary and, when appropriate, other mental health or specialty providers; Other duties as assigned by management. The clinical psychologist will provide consultative support and supervision to our embedded master's level clinicians providing direct patient evaluation, education, monitoring, and clinical interventions.

This position is located in Bladen County, NC.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Applicants for the psychologist position must have a doctoral degree in psychology, preferably Clinical Psychology; must be fully licensed as a psychologist in the state of North Carolina by the beginning date of appointment.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience

Experience with mental health equity and experience working with underserved populations is preferred. Training and experience with models of family therapy and specialized behavioral plans.

Experience working on a multidisciplinary team is preferred. Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Special Physical/Mental Requirements Campus Security Authority Responsibilities

Not Applicable.

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