Child Testing Psychologist
Posted: November 25, 2024 Independently Licensed Child Psychologist $5,000 Bonus $2,000 upon hire $1,000 following 90 days of employment $2,000 following 1 year of employment NYFS is actively recruiting for an Independently Licensed Child Psychologist. To apply, please email your resume and cover letter to [email protected] Scope of Position: The Psychologist role at NYFS is responsible for performing psychological evaluations and assessments for children and adolescents, and for executing all processes and projects necessary to support the assessment team. Responsibilities: Provide trauma-responsive, culturally responsive and age-appropriate psychological evaluations for children and adolescents, including: • Collaborating with clients and their families to define evaluation questions• Conducting initial diagnostic assessments • Selecting, administering, scoring, and interpreting psychological assessments• Writing comprehensive reports of test results • Provide feedback to client and their family in a timely manner • Complete 4 assessments per week to maintain full-time status or option to slightly reduce assessment caseload to hold a small psychotherapy caseload. • Complete documentation and billing in a timely manner in accordance with NYFS guidelines and all relevant HIPAA and DHS guidelines • Works well with community partners and invested in collaborative care with other providers in clients’ lives. Refer clients to specialists, institutions, and/or support services as necessary • Consult with or provide consultation to other therapists or clinicians regarding client care and assessment related topics • Collaborate and coordinate care with multidisciplinary team at NYFS. Required Qualifications: • Candidates will be best suited for this position of they have experience with evaluations for Autism Spectrum Disorder • Minnesota license or license-eligible psychologist • Doctorate degree in Psychology (PhD or PsyD) from an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited program with appropriate clinical training• Successful completion of Post Doctorate training hours • Effective written and verbal communication skills. Strong candidates will have a solid understanding of their own culture and practice sensitivity and respect to the cultural backgrounds of clients as well as other staff. NYFS welcomes clients as well as staff with diverse cultural/ethnic identities, sexual orientations, gender identities, disabilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Salary Range: $81,000 to $95,000 per year based on education, training and/or experience. NYFS Benefits: • Competitive benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability. 401k that matches at 3%, vested immediately. Options to contribute to health savings account (HSA) and flexible spending account (FSA). • Generous Paid Time Off, Reasonable Time Off (similar to sick time), and Holiday policy. • $500 stipend to seek out training with 5 CEU days. • Reimbursement for Licensure fees. • Flexible schedule collaboratively determined with your supervisor with options for remote work. Staff may work from home on Fridays. • The final week of the year NYFS closes services to ensure all staff have a paid collective week off to support work sustainability. • Bi-weekly clinical supervision provided for all staff – regardless of level of licensure as part of traumatic stress wellness plan. • Many agency sponsored training opportunities including specific trauma modalities (TF-CBT, NET, CCPT) and cultural responsiveness trainings quarterly. • In-depth reflective weekly clinical consultation as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Agency Overview: Northeast Youth and Family Services (NYFS) is a community-based nonprofit founded in 1976 serving Northeast Ramsey County. NYFS provides trauma and culturally responsive clinic-based, and school based mental health services, domestic and sexual violence services, and community-based services including diversion programming, youth development programming, and community advocacy with offices in Shoreview and White Bear Lake. We have long standing partnerships with 15 municipalities in Ramsey County; NYFS’ services are genuinely community-driven. Who We Are: NYFS lives its deep values around providing integrative care for the whole family with a focus on youth, young adults, and their caregivers. Staff are dedicated, innovative, and mission-driven, offering authentic, relational, client-centered care. The team is playful, creative, growth-oriented, down-to-earth, and hardworking – and we laugh a lot! We are committed to genuine integration of trauma and culturally responsive care across the agency. As a trauma-responsive organization, NYFS is actively invested in organizational support for staff wellness and work sustainability. We believe in a family-first work environment, rather than seeking work/life balance. We are committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity in recruitment, hiring, training, and promotion of persons based on merit, qualifications, and competence. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, place of residence, political affiliation, veterans’ status, or status with regard to public assistance, or any other class protected by local, state, or federal law. NYFS provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request.
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