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If you feel passionate about helping a vulnerable population by utilizing your experience and training in the field of psychology, we have the position for you! The Department of Human Services, Torrance State Hospital is seeking a hardworking, compassionate, and caring Psychological Services Specialist to make a positive difference in the lives of consumers who reside at the facility. The purpose of this position is for a master's level clinician to provide a full range of psychological services to chronically and severely mentally ill consumers in a hospital setting. This is a meaningful career where you put your degree to great use. If you are interested in this rewarding opportunity, apply today!
As a Psychological Services Specialist, you communicate psychological information about patients to professional and non-professional staff to ensure that appropriate treatment and discharge plans can be formulated.
Duties include providing psychological profiles of patients to the treatment team by completing psychological evaluations as needed to ensure that treatment team decisions and goals for patients are objectively based. You maintain current psychological assessments on identified patients by completing routine screening assessments within ten working days of admission and by reviewing the assessments at least annually. This provides the psychological data necessary prior to the development of each patient's treatment plan. In addition, you apply psychological principles of intervention in direct care treatment and rehabilitation of patients by scheduled individual and/or group work, by intervening in crisis situations, and by unscheduled counseling sessions to ensure that patient development is promoted.
Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.
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Full Time
Public Administration
$60k-74k (estimate)
01/05/2024
05/24/2024
pa.gov
HARRISBURG, PA
>50,000
2015
TOM WOLF
>$50B
Public Administration
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