The Psychologist is responsible for providing a range of clinical duties and psychology services, serving as the program expert on therapeutic interventions. The Psychologist’s primary areas of responsibility include the following:

· Providing expertise in overseeing clinical interventions that reflect best therapeutic practices.
· Providing training, consultation, and supervision to staff responsible for the direct care of clients.
· Facilitate development of healthy and safe therapeutic milieu.
· Provide direct care as appropriate consistent with professional psychological standards and minimum care standards as outlined by licensing and accreditation bodies.
· Engage in program development and clinical interventions that aligns with best practices and empirically supported treatments.
· Represent Rogers Behavioral Health as a thought leader in the academic and community spaces.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

Providing expertise in overseeing clinical interventions that reflect best therapeutic practices

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to monitor and support patient care
• Monitor patient progress through self-report measures and other monitored outcomes to facilitate ongoing treatment planning
• Assist with milieu management
• Lead and direct the evidence-based case conceptualization and associated treatment interventions
  • Be able to understand, interpret, implement, and provide direction on measures to clarify diagnosis and prioritize symptoms
  • Provide evidence-based symptom/behavior conceptualization
  • Identify, model, and supervise relevant empirically based treatment interventions.
• Evaluate evidence-based interventions and provide recommendations and rationale for interventions to treatment stakeholders (e.g., staff, healthcare professionals, leadership, patients, and families.
• Complete and monitor required medical record documentation in accurate and timely manner, including documentation audits

Provide training, consultation, and supervision to staff responsible for direct care of clients

• Provide high quality clinical supervision to all clinical patient-facing staff in accordance with supervision standard work (including therapists, behavioral specialists, and students)
• In collaboration with service line leader and site-specific leadership, create and provide training to all staff to ensure most up-to-date interventions are provided
• Support protocol fidelity through ongoing monitoring
• Monitor quality and effectiveness of staff, programs, and referral services
• Propose departmental policies and procedures to direct supervisor and service line leaders
• Attend and support debriefs
• Demonstrate understanding and support of regulatory agency compliance regulations

Facilitate development of healthy and safe therapeutic milieu

• Provide support for milieu management by supporting behavioral management and intervention
• Work with program leadership to ensure policies and procedures are clear and applied consistently
• Support staff by contributing to and facilitating a culture of mental well-being and a healthy work environment including growth mindset and positive problem solving.
• Model professionalism and ethical practice in accordance with professional psychological standards.
• Provide professional leadership concerning clinical assessment, treatment, management issues, and provide consultation/supervision to direct service staff as part of daily interdisciplinary services.

Provide direct care as appropriate consistent with professional psychological standards

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to support direct interventions, including individual, group, and family sessions
• Provide and model direct care interventions (e.g., motivational interviewing) with patients and families.
• Engage in clinical assessment to clarify diagnosis and enhance treatment planning
• Lead and model complex case conceptualization and rationale for treatment interventions.
• Support complex discharge planning by engaging supports and community resources as needed.

Engage in program development and clinical interventions that aligns with best practices and empirically supported treatments

• Stay up to date on latest peer-reviewed empirical research relevant to the program
• Collaborate with system leaders to continually enhance treatment protocols and offerings
• Collaborate with leaders of other disciplines to ensure appropriate and consistent treatment practices
• Monitor program changes with outcome data to ensure high quality care.
• Participate in Hospital committees to promote positive problem-