Clinical Psychologist

Job Summary:

CoreCivic is seeking a highly skilled Psychiatrist to provide comprehensive mental health services in an institutional setting. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the operation and providing overall direction and leadership for the provision of mental health services in the facility.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide direct patient care and associated clinical duties, including assessing and providing DSM diagnoses, prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medications, and providing counseling and disease process education.
• Participate in civil commitment proceedings and supervise and provide mentorship to other facility-based mental health staff.
• Assess the needs of mental health services, collect and maintain statistics and data, and prepare necessary reports pertaining to mental health services.
• Evaluate and recommend methods of improving operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness of mental health-related services.
• Accept on-call status and provide direct casework services, individual, group, and family counseling to inmates/residents and their families.
• Prepare progress reports, provide recommendations regarding discharge plans, and make case presentations.
• Serve as mental health staff liaison in group counseling, volunteer activities, and other events designed to promote mental health services to inmates/residents.
• Assist in supervision of inmates/residents, both within the facility and while in community activities, and promote positive community relations and utilize community services as needed.
• Maintain and monitor confidentiality of inmates/residents and their files, audit files to determine that all services provided are documented, and review status of inmates/residents to verify that all treatment and therapeutic programs are completed.
• Assist in coordinating professional services provided by contract personnel, if applicable, and provide for their needs to be addressed.
• Prepare and maintain a variety of standard narrative, statistical, summary, and/or operational records, reports, and logs, using appropriate grammar, to include filing, alphabetizing, and labeling, and review reports and records produced by staff.
• Attend scheduled staff meetings, group meetings, and other staff and group activities essential for effective program and service delivery and to promote communications and the proper flow of relevant information between administration, staff, and inmates/residents.
• Utilize established corporate, facility, and correctional policies and procedures in making decisions, but perform with a high degree of independence and professional administrative skill and use sound independent judgment in meeting the responsibilities and performing the duties of the position.
• Review, process, and respond (via corporate counsel) to lawsuits, attend court hearings when necessary, and read, analyze, comprehend, and interpret technical procedures or governmental regulations, legal and non-legal documents, including the processing of such documents as medical instructions, commitment orders, summons, and other legal writs.
• Communicate effectively and coherently to administration, staff, inmates/residents, visitors, and the general public, particularly in situations requiring tact, diplomacy, understanding, fairness, firmness, and good judgment.
• Maintain equipment and supplies as required, order replacement items in a timely manner via the purchase order system.
• Endure verbal and mental abuse when confronted with the hostile views and opinions of inmates/residents and others, e.g., visitors and family members, encountered in an antagonistic environment.
• Perform rescue functions at accidents, emergencies, and disasters, including administering basic emergency medical aid, physically removing people away from dangerous situations, and securing and evacuating people from confined areas.
• Take appropriate action to prevent or diffuse potentially disruptive situations.
• Experience exposure to body fluids, wastes, and encounter with deceased or contagious persons.
• Endeavor to comply with the requirements of applicable regulations, laws, rules, procedures, policies, standards, and/or contract.
• Be aware that verbal abuse may be present with the hostile views and opinions of inmates/residents and others encountered in an antagonistic environment.
• Establish and maintain effective working relations with others and handle difficult interpersonal contacts.
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Participate in in-service and other training programs as required.
• Report to assigned facility at designated hour to provide direct patient care and associated clinical duties.
• May be assigned the duties of any position in an emergency situation.
• Remain alert at all times and react quickly, efficiently, and calmly in emergency and other high-stress situations.

Qualifications:

• Graduate from an accredited college or university with an advanced degree in psychology or an appropriate degree in a related clinical area and appropriate certification or license (or meet educational requirements for licensing in the state of employment, if greater).
• Five years clinical experience, which includes two years in a comparable position.
• A valid driver's license is required.
• Minimum age requirement: Must be at least 18 years of age.

CoreCivic is a Drug-Free Workplace & EOE including Disability/Veteran.