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Agency:Department of Human Services
Class Title:CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST - 08250
Skill Option:None
Bilingual Option:None
Salary:Anticipated Salary: $7,787 - $11,960 per month ($93,444 -
$143,520 per year)
Job Type:Salaried
Category:Full Time
County:Sangamon
Number of Vacancies:1
Bargaining Unit Code:RC063 Professional Employees, Educators,
Juvenile Justice School Counselors and Special Education Resources
Coordinators, and Physicians AFSCME* MUST APPLY ON OUR WEBSITE
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Work Hours:Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm; 1-hour unpaid lunch
Work Location:901 E Southwind Rd Springfield, IL 62703-5125
Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery
Elizabeth Packard Mental Health Center
Psychology Dept.
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Position Overview
The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire a
Clinical Psychologist for the Elizabeth Packard Mental Health Center
located in Springfield, Illinois to serve as an advanced clinician in a
civil and forensic psychiatric hospital, serving mentally ill patients
who have been determined Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) or
Unfit to Stand Trial (UST). Administers, scores, and interprets
psychological tests and writes comprehensive reports based on findings
to request advanced court ordered privileges. Conducts group and
individual psychotherapy. Makes diagnostic classifications and
clarifications. Testifies in criminal and court hearings.
Essential Functions
- Serves as an advanced clinician in a civil and forensic psychiatric
hospital, serving mentally ill patients who have been determined
NGRI or UST.
- Conducts individual and group psychotherapy counseling sessions with
patients.
- Serves as adjunct member of all treatment teams, participates in
treatment planning conferences and professional reports and reviews.
- Develops behavioral management plans for those patients who exhibit
maladaptive behavior.
- Serves on a variety of hospital and statewide committees.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably
within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires current license as a Clinical Psychologist by the Illinois
Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
Conditions of Employment
- Requires the ability to physically restrain patients as necessary to
prevent injury to patient or others.
- Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation (CPR) certificate.
- Requires ability to perform and deliver mouth to mask CPR and manual
resuscitation.
- Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal
computers.
- Requires physical ability to access various wo ksites throughout the
hospital to attend meetings.
- Requires ability to pass CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute) training
within the probationary period.
- Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
- Requires the ability to meet the requirements for credentialing and
privileging as a consulting member of the medical staff of the
Elizabeth Packard Mental Health Center within 30 days of employment.
- Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
- Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from
recreational use under Illinois Law.
* The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related
to any of the job duties as listed