Lifespan Physician Group (LPG): Bradley Hospital, an affiliated teaching hospital of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has an opening for a child psychologist to join our Pediatric Partial Hospital Program. This position has the opportunity for a Brown University Clinical Faculty appointment, if desired. Candidates must have completed doctoral training and internship from APA-accredited programs. Bradley Hospital is the nation’s first psychiatric hospital exclusively for children and adolescents. We provide expert family-focused care to children and adolescents with psychological, developmental, and behavioral problems, through a wide range of inpatient, outpatient, residential and partial hospital programs.
About the job:
• Full-time clinically-focused position working with a renowned multidisciplinary team on a family-focused day hospital program.
• Work with patients ages 0-7, and their families, who are in need of stabilization, assessment and treatment.
• Treat very young children with a broad range of mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, PTSD/trauma, ADHD and externalizing disorders, problems with sleeping, feeding, medical treatment compliance and relationships.
• Given their age and the nature of the needs of these very young children, a day treatment program is preferred to hospitalization or out-of-home placement and preserves the focus of treatment on the home caregiver environment, addressing emotional and social difficulties within the family as an integral part of a comprehensive treatment plan.
• Function as a primary clinician on a multidisciplinary team providing care coordination, treatment planning, diagnostic assessments; parent-child, family, and individual therapies; parent guidance; overseeing group and milieu therapies, home, school, and community visits. Serve as the leader of the treatment team for the assigned caseload.
• Teaching and supervision opportunities with an academic appointment to Brown Medical School, may be available.
• Collaborative research opportunities may be available.
About you:
• PhD or PsyD with an internship from an APA-accredited program, Child/Family specialization.
• Postdoctoral experience with Child/Family emphasis encouraged.
• Licensed or license-eligible in Rhode Island.
• Passion for working with young children, families, and systems of care.
• Team-oriented professional and a desire to work collaboratively in a team-based care model for young children struggling with complex psychosocial and behavioral health needs.
About the details:
• Competitive salary
• Professional allowance (license, CEs) and professional days
• Excellent benefits, including competitive vacation and sick time
• 401k with 6% match (after 1 year of employment, 3-year vesting)
• Federal loan repayment assistance available
• EMR is EPIC with a commitment to on-going optimization
• Diverse patient population (culturally and economically)
• Dynamic leadership team that values work-life balance
• Opportunities for involvement in research, supervision, and teaching
About Lifespan:
With 750 providers Lifespan Physician Group offers a multitude of services. We are proud of our Behavioral Health Services which offer our community a full range of assessment and treatment options to address the mental, emotional, and behavioral problems that occur throughout life. Our programs encompass a comprehensive view of mental health that includes and integrates the biological, psychological, and social dimensions of care. Our team works collaboratively to evaluate patients and provide the comprehensive, evidence-based treatment they need.