Military and Family Clinical Psychologist

Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving over 55,000 adults and children annually. For over 50 years, Metrocare has provided a broad array of services to people with mental health challenges and developmental disabilities. In addition to behavioral health care, Metrocare provides primary care centers for adults and children, services for veterans and their families, accessible pharmacies, housing, and supportive social services.

Alongside clinical care, researchers and teachers from Metrocare’s Altshuler Center for Education & Research are advancing mental health beyond Dallas County while providing critical workforce to the state.
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

The mission of Metrocare Services is to serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying. We are an agency committed to high quality culturally-responsive, trauma-informed care to individuals experiencing serious mental illness, development disabilities, and co-occurring disorders. Metrocare programs focus on the issues that matter most in the lives of the children, families and adults we serve.
The Steven

A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Metrocare is part of the Cohen Veterans Network, a national nonprofit (501c3) network of clinics creating an opportunity for Veterans and their families to receive affordable outpatient mental health treatment. With a multidisciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, case managers, and veteran outreach workers, the clinic will provide evidence-based, individually-tailored outpatient mental health treatment tailored to meet the specific needs of Veterans, particularly post-9/11, and their families.
The Clinical Psychologist provides evidence-based care to veterans and their families. Care provided is culturally responsive. Opportunities for training and supervision are available.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The essential functions listed here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the job.  Provides evidence-based treatment and assessment for veterans and their families.  Performs and documents patients screenings, psychosocial assessments, and progress and referral information. Conducts clinical intake assessments on veterans and family members as needed. Provides individual, couples, and family psychotherapy to patients, with a focus on delivering evidence-based treatments.  

Collaborates and coordinates with the caregiver, physician, director, case management and all other disciplines to provide the best care to patients as needed.  Attends weekly clinical, supervision, and administrative meetings.  Provides services via telehealth platform, as required.  Assists with training and research.  Provision of occasional community presentations related to the mission of the clinic  Performs other duties as assigned.

COMPETENCIES:

The competencies listed here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Able to establish positive and productive working relationships;
Able to generate trust;
Able and willing to give and receive honest, balanced feedback.  Awareness of and responsiveness to cultural considerations including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and religion/spirituality.  Ability to communicate clearly and effectively via oral or written means. Ability to present a friendly and positive demeanor to veterans, their families, staff, clinic support personnel, funders, and the general public. Ability to make oral presentations.  

Ability to remain calm and maintain self-control in the midst of difficult circumstances and emergencies. Ability to respond in a professional manner in all situations.  Ability to think analytically and evaluate the impact of case management recommendations. Ability to set work priorities and to evaluate and create solutions to work related problems.  Ability to negotiate veterans or their family members down from stressful situations, potential threatening behaviors.

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