Description

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Summary:

• Position Summary: 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 .
• Qualified individuals must have the ability with or without reasonable accommodation to perform the following duties:
• 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. 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.
• The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:
• 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 participate in treatment team and departmental meetings.
• Regularly participate in education and in-service training opportunities.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Minimum Required Qualifications:
• 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, i.e. not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any other federal or state health insurance program.
• Prior hospital-based experience
• ATTENTION CONCENTRATION - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:
• The position requires strong concentration skills. The individual must have the ability to voluntarily sustain concentration to a task over an extended period of time as a result of an effortful and usually deliberate heightened and focused state of attention.
• NEW LEARNING AND MEMORY - The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:
• A large portion of this position required reliance on verbal memory and new learning. Efficiency in processing of verbal information, either in written or spoken form, is a major requirement and prerequisite of the job. The individual must be able to attend to and process multiple bits of information simultaneously. The individual must be able to organize and categorize this information effectively so that later recall is feasible.
• PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING - The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think in order to solve a problem by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:
• The position required much autonomy of thought and problem solving. The individual must be able to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems. The individual must be able to think abstractly, which is manifested in the ability to form concepts, use categories, generalize from single instances, apply procedural rules and general principles, and be aware of subtle or intrinsic aspects of a problem. The development of hypothesis and potential solutions to problems involves careful interpretation, analysis and diagnosis. The individual must be able to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The individual must be able to think creatively with a degree of inventiveness, experimentation and intuition. They must be able to deal with a variety of concrete and abstract variables.
• The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:
• Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.
• Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods of time, according to set procedures, sequence or pace.
• Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
• Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
• Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
• Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.
  
  

Credentials:

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We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

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We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.