Clinical Testing Psychologist

Benefits:

Competitive salary

Dental insurance

Flexible schedule

Health insurance

Opportunity for advancement

Paid time off

Training & development

Vision insurance

Who we are looking for: A Clinical Psychologist with competency in providing comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, experience working with a pediatric, adolescent, and young adult population, and a special interest in Autism assessment. The ideal candidate will help set up a program to conduct child and adolescent diagnostic evaluations, evaluate results and deliver treatment recommendations to families as part of a clinically excellent program.

The perfect candidate will share our passion for improving and expanding access to quality mental health care and will thrive in a culture that emphasizes: autonomy, flexibility, creativity, authenticity, humor, compassion, acceptance, and determination.

Who is Ellie?

Ellie Mental Health is a highly successful mental health organization with clinics structured to remove many of the daily obstacles that get in the way of providing world-class mental health services. Ellie makes the clinician’s experience a priority by offering: excellent compensation, benefits, training, and flexible scheduling. Ellie strives to lower the administrative aspects of providing care to the absolute minimum, so our practitioners have more time to focus on what they love - serving clients! We want our people to be happy because happy therapists do better work and provide better client care!

Major Responsibilities / Activities

Complete psychiatric assessment on child & adolescent patient

Conduct psychosocial evaluations and provide therapeutic interventions including crisis counseling child & adolescent patients and their families as needed to facilitate behavioral health clinical care management.

Determine an evaluation plan that would address the referral questions, which may include diagnostic questions, treatment recommendations, and/or needs for special education accommodations

Administer, score, and interpret psychological measures

Write a thorough testing report to explain the results of the evaluation

Provide feedback to the client regarding the results of the evaluation, and, if requested, coordinate with other providers to share the testing results

Provide excellent customer service for clients and collaborate with a dynamic team to further the mission of filling gaps in our community

Utilize creativity in interventions to help clients achieve and exceed goals

Required/Preferred Education and Experience

Candidates are required to be licensed and credentialed to practice in the state of Virginia

Have a clinical or counseling Psychology Doctorate from an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited program and must have completed an APA-approved clinical psychology internship.

Experience with completing psychological evaluations

Familiarity with working with/within school systems and familiarity with the IEP/504 Process Ability to complete and submit documentation of services and other documents in a timely manner

Flexible work from home options available.