Child and Adolescent Psychologist

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Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

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The Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina ( UNC) School of Medicine at Chapel Hill is seeking a psychologist specializing in child and adolescent mental health to join their outpatient team. The University is committed to the expansion of child and adolescent mental health and to the increased access to high quality, empirically validated therapeutic services for adolescents and young adults with more significant risk or mental health conditions. The position would primarily involve outpatient work at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program in Chapel Hill, NC and will ideally engage referrals from the local Youth Behavioral Health hospital, inpatient units, and intensive outpatient program ( IOP) at UNC. Primary duties will involve providing outpatient psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and young adults and offering neurocognitive testing and personality or behavioral structure assessments to these population increasing access to care and treatment planning. Additional opportunities would include teaching and supervising psychiatry residents, medical students, and other healthcare trainees who rotate throughout the department.

This position will include direct patient care both in-person and in virtual contexts, and may also include settings within the larger UNC hospital (e.g., programming work on the child and adolescent inpatient units; therapy services within the Center for Women's Mood Disorders). There are also opportunities for providing group, family, and/or parenting therapy services, depending on the clinical interests of the faculty member. An expectation of the position will be the supervision of graduate level psychology students. Given this position's primary aim of providing services to youth discharging from intensive programs, the ideal candidate will have a background in addressing complex mental health concerns and/or trauma and managing high-risk clients, with a focus on treating mood disorders and/or serious mental health presentations. Faculty will be required to provide outpatient therapy to approximately 24 patients per week. As a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina Department of Psychiatry the position will require teaching and supervision as described below and engagement in research. Research expectations will depend on the interests and prior investment in research on behalf of the qualified candidate.

Interested candidates may apply by going to https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/296003 and attaching a curriculum vitae and letter of application. Please include the names of 2-3 references.

If you experience any problems accessing the system or have questions about the application process, please contact the University's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost office at (919)-962-1091 or send an email to facultyrecruitment@unc.edu.

Please note: The Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost office will not be able to provide specific updates regarding position or application status.

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