Mount Sinai Services is seeking a full-time Senior Psychologist for the Center for Child Development (CCD) at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens. This is an opportunity for an experienced, early childhood psychologist to play a major role in a cutting-edge initiative to provide integrated pediatric primary, maternal health, and behavioral health care. Responsibilities may include:

· Functioning as a Healthy Steps Specialist, integrated into the pediatric team and serving an early childhood population

· Participating in developmental, social-emotional, and behavioral screenings at designated points for children from birth to three-years-old, and mental health, ACES, and other screenings for caregivers

· Providing consultation services, support, and positive parenting guidance to families with a young child

· Providing short-term, integrated behavioral health services in pediatric primary care

· Conducting parent-child interaction therapy, parent-child psychotherapy, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for selected patients

· Co-leading psycho-educational and psychotherapeutic groups (e.g., parent-child groups, fathers’ groups, and multidisciplinary healthy lifestyles [obesity] groups)

· Participating in multidisciplinary group care “centering” programs

· Helping families smoothly transition among women’s health clinic, NICU, pediatric primary care, and behavioral health services

· Conducting psycho-educational evaluations and other psychological testing

· Supervising and mentoring staff members, psychologists, and psychology post-docs, externs, and other trainees

· Helping to oversee the operation of the CCD and compliance with the standards of federal, state, local, and other regulatory agencies

· Participating in quality assurance, incident review, quality improvement, and utilization review functions, as well as special projects for the Pediatrics Department

· Reviewing literature and attending conferences and training programs to stay informed of developments in early childhood mental health

Requirements for this position include:

1. A doctoral degree from an APA-accredited clinical, health, or school psychology program; completion of an APA-accredited internship; and current licensure and registration as a New York State Psychologist.

2. At least 2 years’ post-doctoral experience as a child psychologist, with at least one of them in an early childhood setting that provides culturally competent, empirically-based behavioral health services.

3. Sophisticated clinical and therapeutic skills, with a deep understanding of the role of attachment, nurturing parenting, trauma, toxic stress, and social determinants for child development.

4. Strong administrative and organizational skills.

5. Deep commitment to prevention-based and early intervention programming.

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, age, disability, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, veteran, immigration, citizenship, or other protected status.

EOE including Veterans and Disabled

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $100,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work setting:

• In-person

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Jamaica, NY 11432: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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