Pediatric Psychologist Brunswick, NJ

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Req #:

Category: Psychologist

Status: Full-Time

Shift: Day

Facility: Childrens Specialized Hosp

Department: Inpatient Psychology

Pay Range: $87,360.00 - $ per year

Location:

200 Somerset St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Job Title:

Psychologist

Location:

Children's Specialized Hosp

Department:
Inpatient Psychology

Req#:

Status:
Full-Time

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $87,360.00 - $ Annual

Pay Transparency

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Job Overview

The Staff Psychologist position at Children's Specialized Hospital CSH is housed within the state-of-the-art inpatient rehabilitation facility in New Brunswick joining a dynamic multidisciplinary team. Their primary role is to address the biopsychosocial needs of children, adolescents, young adults admitted with complex medical needs. Psychologists provide diagnostic interviews, perform psychological testing and psychotherapeutic support for pediatric patients and their families. The clinical teams include Brain Injury, General Rehabilitation/Spinal Cord Injury, Infant Toddler, Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain.

Qualifications



Required:

• PhD, PsyD, or EdD
• NJ Psychology license
• Valid Driver’s License
• AHA BLS Provider Certification
• Experience working with children/teens on the Autism spectrum
• 1+ year of job-related experience
• 1+ year of children and/or adolescent experience
• Experience with cognitive behavioral modification
• Ability to relate therapeutically with the professional team, children, adolescents and their parents/significant others

• Standard battery testing experience
• Experience working with children/teens with chronic illness and/or health psychology

• NJ Psychology license
• AHA BLS Provider Certification
• Valid Driver’s license

• Full Time
• 40 hours/week
• Flexibility in schedule needed
• May require on-call

• Performs complete psycho-diagnostic evaluations with new patients and identifies patient/family psychosocial needs
• Provides effective individual, family, group psychotherapy as indicated
• Identifies realistic goals for intervention and delivers ongoing behavioral medicine intervention based on the developmental needs of the patient
• Goals related to treatment adherence, pain management, improving coping with various medical conditions, treatment of comorbid psychopathology
• Conduct assessments in the area of cognitive and neuropsychological functioning
• Attends interdisciplinary case conferences for patients treated or evaluated
• Provides effective team consultation as needed
• Supports clinical staff
• Consult with nursing/medical staff, join treatment sessions with recreational, occupational, physical, and speech therapists
• Participates in program development with opportunities for research
• Provides in-services and educational trainings to staff and community agencies as requested by Supervisor
• Disseminates findings accurately and sensitively and according to Department policy
• Provides supervision to staff, fellows, interns, externs as indicated
• Displays competency in obtaining and interpreting the patient and family behavior based upon an understanding of cognitive, bio-psychosocial and aging processes
• Meet minimum annual expected volumes
• Flexibility, both in work hours and in performance of duties