PSYCHOLOGIST

UNM HOSPITALS • Albuquerque, NM, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1m ago

This is an integrated behavioral health position who will serve as part of the Integrated Care Behavioral Health Services team providing support to integrated care medicine clinics.

Sign-on Bonus and Relocation Reimbursement available!

Department: Primary Care Behavioral Health

FTE: 1.00
Full Time
Shift: Days

Position Summary:
Responsible for mental health care and education. Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include Neonate, Pediatric, Adolescent, Adult, and Geriatric age groups.

Detailed Responsibilities:

PATIENT CARE: Provide psychological evaluations; assess individual and group treatment and family interventions.
EDUCATION: Participate in staff education programs; orient new employees; provide psychological input at patient care conferences; provide direction for new or temporary personnel.
PATIENT CARE: Document all patient care activities/interactions; collaborate with community and state-wide mental health agencies to ensure follow-up patient assistance.
SUPERVISION: Direct support staff, as needed.
CUSTOMER RELATIONS: Establish and maintain good rapport and effective working relationships with patients, visitors, physicians, and Hospitals employees.
PATIENT SAFETY: Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures, and protocols.
PATIENT SAFETY: Demonstrate a proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes.
PATIENT SAFETY: Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk.
PATIENT SAFETY: Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors, and/or near misses in a timely manner.
PATIENT SAFETY: Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may 'not seem right.'

Qualifications

Education:
Essential:
* Doctorate Degree
Education specialization:
Essential:
* Ph.D. or Psy.D. Counseling, Clinical Psychology, Psychology

Experience:
Essential:
Documented experience in an age-appropriate environment.

Nonessential:
Bilingual English, Spanish, Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo; 1 year directly related experience.

Credentials:
Essential:
* Psychologist License in New Mexico
* CPR for Healthcare/BLS Provider or Professional Rescuers within 30 days.

Physical Conditions:
Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Working Conditions:
Essential:
* No or minimal hazard, physical risk, office environment.
* Subject to credential failure; obtaining/maintaining may result in termination.
* 60 days written notice required to be eligible for rehire.

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