Psychologist-Juvenile Court Clinic, 15 Hr-Days

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Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

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This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Joining UMass Memorial Health - Community Healthlink (CHL) makes you part of a team doing work that is often life changing for those we serve. We provide high-quality behavioral health care services to individuals, couples, and families that is fulfilling both professionally and personally. CHL has been a leader in central and north Worcester County for over four decades in providing care to those facing mental illness, homelessness and substance use and recovery.

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Major Responsibilities:

1. Conduct culturally competent clinical and forensic services with children, adolescents, and families involved with the Massachusetts Juvenile Court.
2. Conduct court-ordered written evaluation reports for cases involving juvenile delinquency, child requiring assistance, parental fitness capacity for child abuse and neglect matters for care and protections, competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, and involuntary mental health and substance use civil commitment hearings. Training is provided.
3. Conduct other evaluations such as psychosocial, substance use, violence risk, fire-setting, and sexual behavior risk-needs. Training is provided.
4. Provide same day emergency mental health evaluations for any court-referred youth.
5. Provide consultation to families, probation officers, judges, other treaters, schools, physicians, DCF, etc.

II. Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:

Required:

1. Minimum of doctorate in Psychology or Counselling Psychology.

2. Must be a licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

3. Must pursue and obtain CJCC I & II training as per statewide Juvenile Court Clinic Protocol.

4. Satisfactory CORI background check.

Experience/Skills:

Required:

1. Demonstrated skill in developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with co-workers, supervisors, and other professionals.

2. Demonstrated skill and proficiency with psychological testing measures as needed to conduct forensic and clinical evaluations.

3. Ability to generate appropriate documentation of all forensic and clinical work that is consistent with forensic standards and agency policies.

4. Demonstrated skills that are consistent with the clinical and forensic standards of the Certified Juvenile Court Clinician training program.

Preferred:

1. Demonstrated skill in conducting culturally competent written forensic and mental health evaluations of children, adolescents, and families.
2. Demonstrated proficiency in consultation concerning court disposition and service planning and case management as needed.
3. Upon continued experience, and if qualified, mentor Certified Juvenile Court Clinician (CJCC) Candidates as a CJCC I & II Mentor.

III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:

Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a normal office environment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health - for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentacquisition@umassmemorial.org. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.