[Hiring] Adult Psychologist @Sanford Health

Role Description

Psychology core privileges include the ability to diagnose, provide treatment, and consultation to children, adolescent, and adult patients who suffer from mental, behavioral, or emotional disorders. Outpatient or a mix of inpatient/outpatient. Remote could be an option.

• Assess patients to determine the nature, causes, and potential effects of personal distress.
• Evaluate personal, social, and work dysfunctions, and the psychological factors associated with various disorders through:
  • Interviews
  • Behavioral assessments
  • Administration and interpretation of tests of intellectual abilities, aptitudes, personal characteristics, and other aspects of human behavior.
• Assess, stabilize, and determine disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical staff policy regarding emergency and consultative call services.
• Core privileges include procedures such as:
  • Analysis of archival data
  • Direct observation
  • Family assessment/therapy
  • Functional analysis of behavior and behavioral rating scales
  • Group therapy
  • Marital or couples therapy
  • Measures of intelligence and achievement
  • Milieu measures
  • Objective and projective personality tests
  • Psychological assessment
  • Psychotherapy
  • Personal enhancement
  • Physiological measures
  • Structured and unstructured interviews
  • Tests of cognitive impairment and higher cortical functioning

Qualifications

• Psy.D. or Ph.D. degree.
• Experience can be demonstrated in one of the following ways:
  • An applicant who has just completed a residency provides his/her resident log.
  • An applicant not applying directly out of a residency shall provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing clinical activity for the last 12 months, including:
    • Numbers of procedures performed
    • Morbidity
    • Mortality
    • Infection rates
    • Other complications
  • If a quality profile is not available, documentation of the applicant’s clinic activity for the last 12 months is required, demonstrating active involvement in the care of 30 child or adolescent patients.
• More education and experience may be required as the practice becomes more advanced.
• Successful completion of a hospital affiliated Psychiatry residency program with two additional years of residency training in child and adolescent psychiatry accredited by:
  • ACGME
  • American Osteopathic Association (AOA)
  • Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada
• Certification in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/subspecialty board.
• Applicants not board certified at the time of application but who have completed residency training within the last five years must achieve board certification within five years unless waived by the appropriate governing Board.

Company Description

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.