Psychologist- Jail Based- Advanced

Psychologist- Jail Based- Advanced

Minimum Qualifications

Possession of a current license to practice psychology within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as issued by the State Board of Psychology.

Basic computer skills to include, but not limited to, Microsoft Office Products.

Role Description

This is practitioner level professional work in the field of psychology. Resources perform independent and specialized work in clinical, vocational, rehabilitation, educational, counseling, or research areas of a psychological services program.

Work includes but is not limited to: the diagnosis of the individual client/youth needs; the planning, development and implementation of client/youth therapies, the evaluation of individual client/youth progress and the formulation of individual client/youth prognosis. Important aspects of this work include the selection and application of psycho-therapeutic treatments including the frequency, intensity, and duration of applied therapies.

Work includes the development of treatment procedures and the implementation of policies regarding the delivery of psychological services to individual client/youth served.

Clinical supervision may be exercised over psychological services personnel.

Work performed may include psychological testing to aide with diagnostic formulation, and forensic evaluation of individuals incarcerated in the judicial system which the courts have requested DPW/OMHSAS perform during a jail assessment.

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