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Pain Management Health Psychologist

Description:

$6,000 sign-on bonus eligible position!

Provides psychological testing, counseling and evaluations of defined populations.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Performs psychological assessments of referred patients by administering, scoring and interpreting psychometric and projective tests as well as other psychodiagnostic techniques and behavior observations.
• Provides treatment to adults and/or adolescents and children.
• Conducts initial interview with member, gathers and reviews all relevant information.
• Determines urgency of member's needs. Provides a professional interpretation of member's presentation and recommends a course of therapeutic action; selects appropriate treatment modality.
• Renders appropriate and immediate guidance and therapy for members in crisis or in need of clinical services.
• Maintains written record of therapy, prepares reports and letters; phones, writes and visits (with member permission) social agencies, schools, relatives, friends to obtain pertinent information.
• Provides telephone assessment, counseling, resource information and referrals.
• Transmits diagnostic and assessment information to referring professionals through verbal and written reports.
• May conduct program evaluation to assess quality of care and cost effectiveness of clinical procedures. May provide case management services to defined population.
• May offer consultation and inservice training to other mental health professionals on clinical issues relevant to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders to include consultation with physicians on psychological factors in the physical health or illness of individuals.
• May conduct research of human behavior and possible methods for eliminating psychological disorders. May offer research and program design consultation.
• Adheres to all mandated guidelines for patient's clinical care and license, maintains license. Complies with organization, department, state, federal, regulatory agency guidelines, policies and procedures.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience

• Two (2) or more years of post graduate experience in a behavioral health setting, or a pre-doctoral internship, post-doctoral internship or fellowship at Kaiser Permanente.

Education

• Doctorate degree from an APA accredited doctorate program with specialization in a field of clinical or counseling psychology.

License, Certification, Registration

• Current license as a Psychologist by the California Board of Psychology.

Additional Requirements:

• N/A

Preferred Qualifications:

• Internship in an APA approved program preferred.
• Prefer experience in pain management.

Primary Location: California,Corona,Corona Medical Offices

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Shift: Variable

Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM

Working Hours End: 08:00 PM

Could start as early as 8:30am or end as late as 7pm.

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