Post Doc Psychology Fellow

Job description

Behavioral Health Post Doc Psychology Fellow - One Year Assignment
Do you want to work with a multi-disciplinary team to achieve the best outcome for patients?
• Are you looking for benefits effective on the first day of employment?
• Do you want to treat a variety of patients using cutting edge techniques and methodology?
• Are you interested in participating in ongoing quality improvement efforts?
• Do you want to be involved in program development and community consultation?
• Are you interested in being a part of a true pillar of the Lynn Community?
• Do you want to take advantage our loan repayment program?
• Do you want to provide comprehensive health care of the highest quality to everyone in our community, regardless of ability to pay?

In this role you will:
• Provide comprehensive bio-psycho-social diagnostic assessment at intake and at any point needed throughout the therapeutic treatment.
• Provide psychotherapeutic treatments; be well versed in at least two treatment modalities.
• Use a team-oriented approach with special emphasis on communication and coordination of care.
• Create patient centered treatment plans, provide ongoing treatment, provide case management services, and assess patient’s ongoing clinic needs and progress
• Incorporate feedback from supervision to improve clinical skills and performance.

Required Qualifications:
• Practicum and Internship experience in the diagnosis and treatment of those problems specific to mentally ill patients manifesting a wide spectrum of illnesses and symptoms.
• Practicum and Internship experience consulting and/or collaborating with the various agencies that provide care for mentally ill patients.
• Completion and graduation from an accredited graduate program that grants a degree that allows psychologist to practice under supervision as a psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Doctoral degree, with commensurate practicum and internship which focused on clinical mental health practice.
• Quality training in psychotherapeutic techniques. Psychologist must be trained in treating patients with a range of mental illness and different levels of functioning.