Job Title: Psychologist
Location: Orient OH 43146
Duration: 3 Months to Long term
Shift: 08:00am-04:00pm (M-F)
Hours: 40hr./week
Roles and Responsibilities:
- In accordance with training & scope of practice, administers & interprets psychometric tests as requested as part of treatment needs for specific diagnoses, treatment & psychological individual & group interventions; administers, scores & interprets individual psychological tests or test batteries for purposes of crisis intervention, neuropsychological issues, risk assessment, severe behavioral management cases, treatment, & programming; participates in hearings as assigned & assessments for potential suicide.
- As a member of the interdisciplinary team, responsible for development & implementation of mental health interventions (e.g., psychological, social & substance abuse) for a caseload of offenders/patients with mental illness; conducts individual & group clinical interventions as prescribed on the offenders individual mental health treatment plan using clinical intervention strategies within their scope of practice.
- Provides mental health liaison services to an assigned caseload, including the monitoring of the offender compliance with the mental health treatment plan; completes detailed screens, mental health evaluations & crisis services within their scope of practice; serves as treatment team coordinator; provides only clinical supervision to psychology assistants in accordance with the State Board of Psychology rules within the level of training & competency of these psychology assistants.
- Writes reports &/or documents to include documentation of all offender contacts, mental health liaison progress note entries, discharge plans & miscellaneous forms & reports as needed.
- Completes psychosocial needs & treatment assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning; completes transfer & discharge summaries & pre-parole clinical risk assessments & treatment summaries; consults with other institution staff regarding the mental health caseload inmates institutional adjustment & service needs. Participates in peer review as assigned.
- Attends meetings of psychology clinical case consultation; attends & instructs in-service training sessions & workshops for professional development; conducts expert-witness assessments as needed; attends meetings; must conduct themselves professionally, & in a law-abiding manner, at all times & in accordance with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction Standards of Employee Conduct; conducts various ODRC institutions and program audit functions; performs other duties as assigned
- Knowledge of public relations: assigned responsibility for establishing & sustaining beneficial business relationships or establishing & projecting acceptable public image, agency policies & procedures, counseling, interviewing, social services (clinical psychology & psychotherapy); ability to recognize unusual or threatening conditions & take appropriate action, understand practical field of study (psychology), define problems, collect data, establish facts & draw conclusions, interpret extensive variety of technical material in books, journals & manuals, deal with many variables & determine specific action, statistical analysis, prepare meaningful, concise, & accurate reports, use proper research methods in gathering data, gather, collate & classify information about data people or things, develop good report with inmates.
- Knowledge of word processing (microsoft office), equipment operations (fax, copier); ability to complete routine forms, maintain accurate records, prepare meaningful, concise & accurate reports.
Required:
- Must have & hold license to practice psychology as issued by Ohio State Board of Psychology per Section.
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