CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Clinical Psychologist

The Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery (DBHR) is seeking to hire a Clinical Psychologist for the Alton Mental Health Center located in Alton, Illinois. The position is responsible for communicating to treatment teams the results of, and will provide treatment recommendations based on: (1) administration of psychological assessments (intellectual, personality, and neuropsychological screenings) and/or (2) an assessment of historical and clinical risk factors. For those patients that are dually diagnosed as, or for whom a dual diagnosis of mental illness and developmental or intellectual disability is suspected, the clinical psychologist will communicate the results of intelligence testing to the treatment team, especially at the time of the comprehensive and/or annual treatment planning collaborations.

Essential functions include performing psychological assessments to address specific questions and/or purposes on an assigned unit, developing and implementing behavior management plans to assist patients in the acquisition of new skills/adaptive behavior and the elimination or reduction of maladaptive behavior, assessing patients, forensic or civil, who is known or suspected to be dually diagnosed (MI/ID) for intellectual and adaptive functioning skills and providing professional reports upon admission or as soon as possible after any psychiatric or medical barriers to testing have been addressed, conducting group and/or individual psychotherapy and documenting treatment in the clinical record, testifying in criminal and/or mental health court hearings, traveling in the performance of job duties, providing facility wide professional trainings, serving as adjunct member of all treatment teams, participating in treatment planning conferences and professional reports and reviews making recommendations based on clinical expertise, testing and case reviews, and performing other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum qualifications require a current license as a Clinical Psychologist by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Conditions of employment include the ability to meet the requirements for credentialling and privileging as a consulting member of the medical staff of Alton Mental Health Center within 30 days of employment, the ability to work within multiple interdisciplinary teams, the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers, the ability to obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification, the ability to pass CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute) training within the probationary period including the physical ability to prevent injury to patient or others by restraining patients if necessary, the physical ability to access various worksites throughout the hospital for administrative and clinical duties, the ability to travel in the performance of job duties, the ability to pass the IDHS background check, and the ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.

Work hours are Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm; 1-hour unpaid lunch. Forensic Units D & E Headquarter Location: 4500 College Ave, Alton, Illinois, 62002. Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery Alton Mental Health Center Psychology Department Forensic Units D & E Work County: Madison.

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