Psychological Associate I

2 weeks ago

San Jose, California, United States Pacific Clinics Full time
$2,500 hiring incentive

About Neurodevelopmental Services


Neurodevelopmental Services (NDS) provides essential support for children and adolescents diagnosed with autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD, sensory processing and behavior difficulties, language and social communication challenges, learning disabilities, trauma, and other cognitive and developmental impairments.

Pacific Clinic's new Neurodevelopmental Center located at 1302 N.

4th Street in San Jose aims to ensure children and teens have access to comprehensive neurodevelopmental evaluations to receive accurate diagnosis, as well as provide a unique and exceptional learning environment for treatment that focuses on social developmental and behavioral skill acquisition through a variety of therapeutic group experiences.


Our group service-delivery model at our center includes:

  • Parent Training Groups
  • Social Skills groups (ages 18 months - 21 years of age)


Our interdisciplinary team consists of speech and occupational therapists, psychologists, psychological associates, pre-doctoral psychology trainees, board certified behavior analysts, and registered behavior technicians.

We work together to ensure children and teens receive expert diagnostic evaluations and a smooth transition to therapeutic services if diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental condition.

What We Offer

  • Pay Range: $23.22-$29.32/HR. Compensation may vary based on skills, experience, education, and location.
  • We Offer Medical, Dental & Vision benefits, retirement options, Flex Spending, EAP, and more
  • Employee engagement and advocacy opportunities to advance our justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion agenda across our Agency and throughout the communities we serve.

JOB SUMMARY


Under close supervision, provides psychological services by applying psychological principles in the following major areas: assessment, treatment, research, training and clinical consultation.


RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

  • Provides a full-range of professional psychological services and a full-range of professional psychological services relating to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric and co-occurring disorders.
  • Responsible for selecting, administering, and interpreting various types of psychological testing instruments, and for providing individual, group and family therapy.
  • Generates reports of diagnostic and psychological findings and/or treatment recommendations.
  • Performs direct service activities including diagnostic evaluation, structured clinical interviewing, and individual, group, and family therapy.
  • Utilizes a variety of treatment modalities such as psychotherapy, behavior modification, and various evidence-based or promising practices such as cognitive-behavioral therapy.
  • Intervenes with clients to enhance their ability to fully participate in treatment, including defining treatment goals and designing intervention strategies that support recovery and resiliency.
  • Evaluates client response to treatment, modifies treatment strategies and includes the client as part of the decision-making process.
  • Obtains and studies medical, psychological, social and family histories, by interviewing individuals, couples, or families and reviewing relevant records.
  • As a member of multidisciplinary treatment team, plans treatment programs and disposition of cases, including identifying treatment outcomes.
  • Participates in agency grand rounds concerning psychological assessment methods, techniques and results.
  • Assists in carrying out psychological research studies and multidisciplinary projects.
  • Participates in psychology training committee activities - may provide supervision support to psychology interns and psychology practicum students.
  • Other duties as program requires.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES


Competency with administering and interpreting gold standard assessment measures and providing diagnostic clarification related to broad range of psychiatric diagnoses, with supervision.


Knowledge of:

  • State regulations and APA standards as they relate to client treatment, patient rights, client/patient confidentiality and other ethical issues.
  • Community agencies and resources.
  • Abnormal, developmental, personality, and social psychology.
  • Theory and practice of individual and group psychotherapy.
  • Crisis intervention techniques.
  • Applicable legal and ethical professional standards.
  • Federal, State, and local laws governing mental health services.
  • Principles of psychopharmacology and psychobiology, psychometric and statistical theories and methodology.
  • Psychological research methods and experimental design.

Ability to:

  • Establish positive and therapeutic relations with clients.
  • Conduct crisis intervention and make appropriate referrals.
  • Select, administer, and score various psychological assessments.
  • Design appropriate treatment interventions, evaluate results, and make modifications as needed.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communications skills: orally and in writing.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients, co-workers, management, and representatives of community organization.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

  • Master's degree in psychology, Educational Psychology, Counselling Psychology or a discipline deemed equivalent by the State Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Psychology.
  • Depending on County of assignment: Registered Psychological Associate with the California Board of Psychology or a Department of Mental Health Waiver.
PREFERRED
QUALIFICATIONS

  • One (1) year APA Accredited Doctoral Internship with training in severe psychopathology and community mental health services.
  • At least one (1) year within the past five (5) years of work experience and/or training in community mental health or acute psychiatric care facilities.

OR:

  • Equivalent combination of training, supervision and experience as identified above in #1 and #2 may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
  • Experience with children and families diagnosed with neurodevelopmental challenges (e.g., autism, ADHD, language delays, learning disorders, etc.).

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS


The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.


While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to complete Physical Management Training (QBS Safety Care) and is often required to stand; walk; run; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.


LEVEL OF CONTACT WITH CHILDREN
May/will have supervised contact with children.

May/will have unsupervised contact with children.

Will not have unsupervised contact with children.

Requires full background check and TB test.

Requires physical exam.

Requires current First Aid/CPR Certification.

DRIVING PRIVILEGES
May be called upon to drive on AGENCY business. Must have acceptable MVR and appropriate insurance coverage.

Required to drive AGENCY vehicle. Must have clean MVR, appropriate insurance coverage, must successfully c

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