Pediatric Psychologist Brunswick, NJ

Pediatric Psychologist – Inpatient – Full Time – New Brunswick, NJ

Req #:

Category:
Behavioral and Mental Health

Status:
Full-Time

Shift: Day

Facility:
Children’s Specialized Hosp

Department:
Inpatient Psychology

Pay Range: $96,000–$149,000 Annually

Location:

200 Somerset St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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.

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

Preferred:

• 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

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market‑competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees’ physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Plans
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life & Accidental Death Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Wellness Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
• Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!

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