Associate Director Psychology

Summary This fulltime position is primarily daytime hours M - F, with occasional evening and weekend attendance for special events. Job Description POSITION SUMMARY: Provides teaching in psychology and behavioral health to Family Medicine Residents. Provides mental health and wellness support for family medicine residents and faculty. Provides psychological evaluation and treatment services to inpatients and outpatients. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties: Develop, implement, evaluate and supervise residency behavioral science and psychiatry curricula, treatment protocols, and other didactic materials for the Penn Medicine/Lancaster General Family Medicine Residency to maintain compliance with ACGME and ABFM requirements Supervise resident learning via live observation, video review and case discussion Conduct formal performance evaluations of resident, counsel residents, and coordinate research audits of assigned team of residents. Attend the weekly Faculty and Committee meetings. Develops and provides in-service education or community outreach presentations. Maintain a limited clinical practice one of the Academic Family Medicine Practice Centers (LGHP Downtown Family Medicine, LGHP Walter Aument Family Medicine Center or LGHP Family & Maternity Medicine) Performs psychological evaluations as assigned, encompassing evaluation of the patient's presenting complaints and condition, past medical and psychiatric histories, social history, coping skills, psychological adjustment and resiliency, and current mental status. Conceptualizes cases leading to appropriate diagnoses. Assesses potential barriers to treatment. Formulates treatment goals and plans. Implements empirically based treatment/intervention/adaptation strategies. Provides psychological therapies to outpatients as assigned. Provides patient progress reports to referral source and other care providers as indicated. Makes recommendations to referral sources and other health care providers pertinent to the diagnosis (es). Coordinates treatment plans with the patient, family, significant others, and treatment team through active participation in meetings and departmental conferences. Monitors and re-evaluates the patient's response to intervention and modifies treatment plan as necessary and with patient agreement. Maintains documentation in the patient's record of evaluations and assessments, treatment plans and processes. Completes required forms and documents all patient contacts in the medical record in order to provide a continually up-to-date assessment of patient status. Complies with established organizational and professional standards, policies, procedures and ethical principles; including those pertaining to billing, reimbursement, scheduling and safety, emergency procedures. SECONDARY FUNCTIONS: The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above: Other duties as assigned. JOB REQUIREMENTS MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: PhD or PsyD in Psychology. Current licensure in Psychology by the Commonwealth of PA. Successful completion of APA accredited doctoral internship. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: 5 years of hospital or outpatient clinical experience. Experience in undergraduate or graduate medical education. Successful completion of an APA accredited doctoral internship. COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS Attention/Concentration: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others. The position requires strong concentration skills. The individual must have the ability to voluntarily sustain concentration to a task over an extended period of time as a result of an effortful and usually deliberate heightened and focused state of attention. New Learning and Memory: The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material. A large portion of this position requires reliance on verbal memory and new learning. Efficiency in processing of verbal information, either in written or spoken form, is a major requirement and prerequisite of the job. The individual must be able to attend to and process multiple bits of information simultaneously. The individual must be able to organize and categorize this information effectively so that later recall is feasible. Problem Solving, Reasoning and Creative Thinking: The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think (in order to solve a problem) by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought. The position requires much autonomy of thought and problem solving. The individual must be able to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems. The individual must be able to think abstractly, which is manifested in the ability to form concepts, use categories, generalize from single instances, apply procedural rules and general principles, and be aware of subtle or intrinsic aspects of a problem. The development of hypothesis and potential solutions to problems involves careful interpretation, analysis and diagnosis. The individual must be able to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The individual must be able to think creatively with a degree of inventiveness, experimentation and intuition. They must be able to deal with a variety of concrete and abstract variables. APTITUDES: The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act. Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions. Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job. Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations. Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information. Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others. EQUIPMENT USAGE REQUIREMENTS Equipment/Tools: Computer, Computer based Video Camera, Phone, Copier, Printer, Fax, and Office Supplies Software: Microsoft Office Products, New Innovations Residency Suite, Web-based Video software. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS Rarely 0-10%; Occasionally 11-35%; Frequently 36-70%; Continuously 71-100% Body Position/Movement : Sit: Frequently Stand: frequently Walk: frequently Bend: rarely Push: rarely Pull: rarely Kneel/Squat: rarely Reach: rarely Twist: rarely Balance: rarely Climb: rarely Lifting: Degree of physical exertion is: Moderate , exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Sensory Abilities specifically required Vision Hearing Touch/Feeling PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT WORKING CONDITIONS . Position involves exposure to the following harmful elements Bio hazardous Waste Blood borne Pathogens Extreme Noise Levels Disclaimer: This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be a reflection of those principal job elements essential for recruitment and selection, for making fair job evaluations, and for establishing performance standards. The percentages of time spent performing job duties are estimates, and should not be considered absolute. The incumbent shall perform all other functions and/or be cross-trained as shall be determined at the sole discretion of management, who has the right to amend, modify, or terminate this job in part or in whole. Incumbent must be able to perform all job functions safely. Benefits At A Glance: PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH offers the following benefits to employees: 100% Tuition Assistance at The Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays Shift, Weekend and On-Call Differentials Health, Dental and Vision Coverage Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Retirement Savings Account with Company Matching Child Care Subsidies Onsite Gym and Fitness Classes Disclaimer PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law. Search Firm Representatives please read carefully: PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH via-email, the Internet or directly to hiring managers at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH as a result of the referral or through other means. PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH, a member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine), is a not-for-profit health system with a comprehensive network of care encompassing Lancaster General Hospital (LGH), Women & Babies Hospital and the Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital (a partnership with Kindred Healthcare). We are an Accredited Trauma Center-Level I through the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation with 805 Licensed beds. Our membership in Penn Medicine brings together the strengths of a world-renowned, not-for-profit academic medical center and a nationally recognized, not-for-profit community healthcare system. Outpatient services are provided at the Downtown Outpatient and Suburban Outpatient Pavilions, along with additional outpatient centers and Express and Urgent Care locations throughout the region. Lancaster General Health Physicians is a network of more than 300 primary-care and specialty physicians, at more than 40 offices throughout the region.

Created: 2024-11-02