Doctorate Clinical Psychologist

SOUTHWESTERN MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, INC.

                                                      POSITION DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE:                Ph.D. or Psy.D. Clinical Psychologist        

DEPARTMENT:                     Outpatient

OF WORK:                              Daytime Monday - Friday, some evening and weekends, occasional on-call

EXEMPT/NON EXEMPT:    Exempt

SUPERVISOR:                        Clinical Director

POSITION SUMMARY:  Provides and assists in coordinating, planning, implementing, supervising, and facilitating outpatient programming and services.  Responsibilities may include individual, family and group counseling, employee assistance counseling, school based programming, critical incident stress management, administration and interpretation of standardized psychometric measures, court ordered evaluations, and community education services.  All of these areas may involve providing assessment and crisis intervention to acute, chronic or moderately disturbed individuals experiencing mental distress or dysfunction.

SUPERVISION RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Provides clinical supervision to assigned non-licensed personnel, and contracted consultation services

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

1. Ph.D. or Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from an accredited University/College.
2. State of Minnesota Psychology Licensure required.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:          

1. Provides all services in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Center and in accordance with applicable professional code of ethics.
2. Provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy or skill building activities (within limits of experience and education background) including assessment, treatment planning, treatment, referral, termination, and emergency/crisis intervention services, as indicated to meet the needs of clients, including addressing failure to appear clients before 3rd consecutive no-show visit.           
3. Follows established policies and procedures pertaining to the maintenance of accurate and complete clinical records.          
4. Presents cases in multi-disciplinary case consultation team meetings in a coherent, organized fashion.  Provides and requests appropriate support and assistance during the case consultation process.
5. Participates in Southwestern Mental Health Center, Inc. peer review utilization and quality assurance projects and procedures.
6. Presents educational material (within limited of experience and expertise) in a variety of settings to promote community understanding and response to mental health, chemical dependency, and/or developmental disability issues.
7. Administers a variety of psychometric metric evaluations and measures.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:    

1. Is sensitive and responsive to management needs, such as completing credentialing paperwork in a timely fashion, data collection, program evaluation, development of funding applications, maintenance of various contracts for services, etc.
2. Provides supervision of programs and personnel as assigned.
3. Ability to travel to multiple Southwestern Mental Health Center, Inc. offices as client needs demand.
4. Perform other work-related duties as assigned.

REQUIRED PHYSICAL ABILITIES:

1. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear.
2. The employee frequently is required to travel to all SWMHC facilities in the catchment area, ambulate within and between departments; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. 
3. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance. 
4. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.      
5. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

REQUIRED COMMUNICATION/MATHEMATICAL/REASONING SKILLS:

1. Must possess the required level of skills and abilities to read, write, speak, and apply mathematical concepts and sound reasoning to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of this job.
2. Must be able to perform basic operations on a computer within the Windows operating system.
3. This position requires problem solving skills, critical thinking skills, and the ability to multi-task.

RESPONSIBILITIES, EXPECTATIONS & STANDARDS:

1. Commitment to the daily application of SWMHC’s mission, to serve patients, their families and our community.
2. Maintain confidentiality.
3. Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
4. Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations and standards associated with all applicable governing bodies.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

1. May be exposed to communicable diseases when working in a health care environment.
2. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and outside weather conditions. 
3. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.    

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:  The individual must be able to work the hours specified above. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to perform the essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, so long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

This job description is intended to describe the general requirements for the performance of this job.  It is not an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements.