Post Doctoral Resident

Overview

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CONTEXT: A fully accredited facility, University Health Services (UHS) at Princeton University provides responsive, high quality clinical, preventive, and consultative health services to over 8,000 Princeton undergraduate and graduate students and their dependents, and occupational health services to Princeton University faculty, staff, and employees. An integrated, evidence-informed model guides all UHS practices and services. UHS leverages clinical encounters and prevention efforts into meaningful opportunities for our members to learn about and adopt healthy living practices.

UHS supports a public health approach that prevents or responds rapidly to illness outbreaks and injury, and advances, preserves, or restores students’ capacity to take full advantage of their education. UHS’s mission is to enhance learning and student success by advancing the health and well-being of our diverse University community, guided by current knowledge of health and human development. UHS’s values are Respect & Compassionate Care;
Integrity & Service Excellence;
Collaboration & Innovative Solutions; & Engagement & Lifelong Learning. UHS hires individuals of all backgrounds and emphasizes an inclusive and culturally responsive community. The organization aims to develop mindsets, knowledge and abilities to build equitable and inclusive systems, teams and culture. UHS embraces an organization-wide commitment to quality and performance improvement, hiring individuals who are engaged and strive for excellence.

It is possible that the job may be deemed “essential” as defined by University and UHS policy.

Position Summary:

The position provides direct clinical services to our undergraduate and graduate student population, including urgent care and crisis intervention, psychological evaluations, time-limited individual and group psychotherapeutic treatment, on call services, campus liaison, mental health education, and community referral services. UHS has an active Inpatient Service that provides 24 hour health coverage. This post-doctoral resident position involves the provision of primary after-hours, on-call coverage, assigned at the discretion of the CPS Manager of Post-Doctoral Training.

The Post-Doctoral Resident demonstrates the potential to develop sophisticated diagnostic skills and specialized knowledge in content areas such as substance abuse, eating disorders, severe personality and identity problems, and affect regulation disturbances, with training in specialized treatments (e.g., Dialectical Behavior Therapy for affect and behavior regulation; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for anxiety disorders). The skill set to be developed includes understanding late adolescents and young adults, accrued via intensive supervised clinical experience, weekly didactic seminars and clinical case conferences.

The position is one-year, full-time, benefits-eligible, with an anticipated start date of August 18, 2025 and a starting salary of $65,000/year.

• Clinical Care (60%)

• Provides urgent care and crisis intervention; performs psychological evaluations, and time-limited individual and group psychotherapeutic treatment
• Serves on an on-call after-hours rotation with other CPS psychologists/social workers
• Performs specialized evaluations for students of concern: administrative, readmission, exit, and post-hospital evaluations
• Uses clinical data to inform diagnostic assessments (DSM-V) and treatment planning
• Engages in campus outreach and community education related to mental health issues
• Participates on select UHS multidisciplinary treatment teams
• Serves as a mental health consultant to other University partners and stakeholders, and a community referral resource for students
• Provides oversight and coordination of one or more systems and processes in the clinic (e.g., urgent care system, decanal consultations to ODUS, Directors of Student Life, DSL, and the Graduate School)
• Effectively manages the daily clinical operations and/or develops new clinical services in response to changing student needs

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