Assistant Professor (Term)

Company: University of Louisville
Location: Louisville
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Department:

Location:
Health Sciences Center
Time Type:
Full time
Worker Type:
Regular Term (Fixed Term)
Job Req ID:
R100979
Position Description:

The UofL School of Medicine, affiliated with Norton Children's Behavioral & Mental Health and a part of Norton Children's Medical Group, is seeking a fellowship trained pediatric clinical psychologist to join its established program in Louisville, Kentucky. The practice is looking to add psychologists to its multidisciplinary team of 17 clinicians, including child and adolescent psychiatrists, pediatric psychologists, nurse practitioners and licensed clinical social workers providing direct patient care.

Norton Children's Behavioral & Mental Health, affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine, provides outpatient and inpatient mental health care for children ages 2 to 21. Patients and their families have access to child psychiatric and psychological evaluation and treatments. Services include medication therapy and a broad range of individual, group and family therapies. Norton Children's Behavioral & Mental Health evaluated over 15,900 children and adolescents in 2022 for inpatient and outpatient therapeutic services and emergency psychiatric services, with more than 700 admissions each year to the Ackerly Child Psychiatric Unit at Norton Children's Hospital.

Job Description

• Pediatric psychologist with training and experience in pediatric consult-liaison services who will deliver evidence-based assessment and treatment services to medical inpatients.
• Appointment will be a combined 1.0 FTE with Norton Children's Medical Group, affiliated with the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychology.
• This position involves providing evidence-based care as part of our multidisciplinary Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service to Norton Children's Hospital across pediatric service lines.
• The psychologist will also be involved with training psychology residents in our APA-accredited predoctoral internship in Clinical Child/Pediatric Psychology, our post-doctoral psychology fellow, as well as educating child psychiatry residents, pediatrics residents and medical students.
• While the position is primarily clinical in focus, the faculty member will have opportunities for research and clinical innovation.
  
  REQUIREMENTS
  
  • Doctorate in clinical, school, or counseling
  • APA-accredited internship
  • Post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology
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