What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Psychologist II position at San Bernardino County?
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The San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) invites qualified professionals to apply for the position of Licensed Psychologist II*. Licensed Psychologists II* are lead workers who direct a small number of clinical staff members. Typical duties consist of providing clinical and administrative consultation to their staff; which includes providing clinical, administrative, and psychological testing supervision for interns and/or staff obtaining hours towards licensure; screening prospective clients for appropriateness of program services; intervening in crisis situations; complex care coordination; auditing and monitoring charts; utilization review; payment authorization; selecting, administering, scoring, and interpreting a wide variety of objective and projective tests, including cognitive, psychodiagnostic, and project measures for the treatment of individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness or severe emotional disturbance; and participating in providing rehabilitative mental health/substance abuse services in clinic, field, and community settings to clients with severe mental, emotional and substance abuse disorders.
For additional details, please refer to the Clinical Therapist II - Psychologist job description.
DBH is also accepting applications for Pre-Licensed Psychologist* and Licensed Psychologist I*. Please click on either job title to be redirected to the corresponding application. Each position requires its own application; submitting applications for multiple positions is in your best interest as they do not interfere with one another.
The incumbent assigned to this position will function as a lead clinician and be responsible for conducting psychological assessments as well as supervision of other staff conducting assessments. This position requires in-person interviews with individuals housed in locked psychiatric facilities, detention centers, and the State Hospitals. The incumbent assigns, reviews and evaluates the work of a small unit of Clinical Therapists. Collaborates on work performance evaluations with the Clinic Supervisor. Provides input to the Clinic Supervisor on personnel decisions such as hiring or disciplinary actions. Provides consultative assistance to Clinical Therapists on difficult cases. Audits and monitors charts.
The incumbent assigned to this program will function as a lead clinician responsible for providing direct services as well as supervision for additional staff providing services. Incumbent will have primary responsibility for assigning new referrals and conducting supervision of assessments for justice involved adults upon referral to specialty mental health services under the provision and/or facilitation of Mental Health Court and Mental Health Diversion for adults that have been incarcerated or are at risk of becoming incarcerated. Additional duties will include the reviewing and approving of court submitted recommendation reports. A majority of the face-to-face services are conducted within the clinic.
- The incumbent assigned to this position will function as a lead clinician and be responsible for providing direct services as well as supervision to other staff providing services. Conducting and supervising Qualified Individual (QI) assessments for youth referred to residential care will be a primary function of this position. QI assessment results will be included in court submitted recommendation reports. Additional responsibilities will include the ongoing provision and facilitation of specialty mental health services.
- The incumbent assigned to this position will function as a lead clinician and be responsible for providing direct services as well as supervision to other staff providing services within a One-Stop TAY Center located in the city of San Bernardino. Leading the multidisciplinary team in the provision of specialty mental health services to address the needs of the TAY population, many of which are former system involved youth, will be a primary responsibility of this position. These youth are coping with serious and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI) and are often involved in the shelter bed system.
- The incumbent assigned to this position will function as a team member and a primary supervisory staff within an APA-Accredited Pre-Doctoral Internship Program. The supervised interns will have primary clinical assignments at various department locations throughout the county. Travel to these locations is required and related expenses will be reimbursed. Providing clinical supervision, testing supervision, in-services, and formal training are all required functions of this position. Additionally, this position will assist in the administrative oversight of the internship program.
- This position will be part-time, 20 hours per week, and offers a full telework option.
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DBH is a unique County Department comprised of eight (8) direct service areas: Community Outpatient and Transitional Age Youth Services; Youth Collaborative and Justice Involved Services; Substance Use Disorder and Recovery Services; 24 Hour and Specialty Services; Adult Justice Involved and Diversion Services; Medical Services; Community Engagement and Equity Services; Office of Patients' Rights and five (5) indirect service areas: Administrative and Fiscal Services; Public Relations and Outreach Services; Program Support Services; Disaster and Safety Unit; and the Office of Compliance. The Department currently has a workforce in excess of 1500 positions and an approximate $800 million-dollar annual budget.
EXCELLENT BENEFITS!
To review job-specific benefits, please refer to:
Summary of Benefits
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Sponsorship: Please note San Bernardino County is not able to consider candidates who will require visa sponsorship at the time of application or in the future.
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Applicants fluent in American Sign Language, Arabic, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, and/or Vietnamese are strongly encouraged to apply. Additional compensation is associated with positions requiring the use of bilingual skills. Testing of bilingual skills is required to receive additional compensation.
Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable:
- Two (2) years of experience as a licensed therapist in a behavioral health or social services setting.
- Experience providing clinical supervision over clinical interns and/or trainees.
- Experience in a behavioral health or social service setting in a leadership role either managing a special assignment or providing occasional supervisory coverage.
- Currently employed as a therapist.
- Government or private inpatient, psychiatric hospital or behavioral health clinics/programs/contract agencies, serving acutely or persistently mentally ill clients.
- Experience with Medi-Cal Documentation.
- Experience providing child/adolescent and family therapy.
- Experience with group and individual therapy services.
- Experience serving Transitional Aged Youth (TAY).
- Experience with working in multidisciplinary team settings.
- Attention to detail and good ability to communicate.
- Experience with either currently or previously system involved youth (e.g., Child Welfare or Probation).
- Experience with psychological testing.
- A graduate of an APA accredited or CAPIC internship or experience as a supervisor in an APA or CAPIC accredited program.
- Experience in a crisis intervention/brief therapy setting with severely mentally ill adults/children.
- Experience in quality assurance or utilization review activities.
- Experience with managed care or insurance plans, such as, but not limited to, Kaiser, Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) or Molina Healthcare.
- Experience with performing clinical screening/assessment duties including screening and resource referrals to care.
- Experience with intensive care coordination with physical health care providers for severely persistently mentally ill clients.
- Experience with case management for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
- Experience with coordinating care for individuals with co-occurring substance disorders.
- Experience in transitional care coordination between inpatient and outpatient levels of care for medical complexity children.
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