Senior Correctional Psychologist

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Lubbock, TX

Location: Lubbock, TX
Categories: Public Health
Job Type: Full Time
Posted: Sep 20, 2024

Job Description:

Senior Correctional Psychologist

Description

Senior Correctional Psychologist
Lubbock
38907BR

Position Description
Delivers psychological services in a prison unit. Work involves providing care to psychiatric patients including assessment of patients' psychological needs, formation of treatment plans and conducting therapy with groups or individuals. Provides clinical supervision to correctional psychologists, psychologists, and behavioral health staff, such as mental health clinicians and social workers.

Major/Essential Functions

Serves as a clinical authority on matters involving psychology. Provides direct patient care. Interprets Mental Health Services Policy and Procedures to subordinate staff when clarification is needed.
Collaborates with other regional management staff in policy development, operational decision making, pursuit of standards compliance and regional goal attainment.
Ensure that psychology staff follow appropriate total quality management, ACA TDCJ, and TTUHSC policies and procedures.
Serves in a professional capacity as a TTUHSC CMHC representative to a variety of statewide management and policy development committees and work groups.
Provides psychometric/psychological evaluations; recommends tools/instruments.
Participates in the quality of care review and recommendation process following any offender suicide in the TTUHSC region.
Provides direct supervision to senior clinicians, clinical supervisors, and other clinical staff as needed. This includes crisis management referral processing and direct clinical consultation.
Participates in the education, training, and academic development of staff and students.
Provides leadership and functional direction for a multidisciplinary staff.
Provides a variety of marginal duties not listed to be determined and assigned as needed.
Aligns with Values Bases Culture.

Required Qualifications

Doctoral degree in psychology from an approved accredited college, university or school of professional psychology.
5 years of experience.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran.

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is a federal statute requiring colleges and universities participating in federal financial aid programs to maintain and disclose campus crime statistics and security information. By October 1 of each year, institutions must publish and distribute their Annual Campus Security Policy & Crime Statistics Report (ASR) to current and prospective students and employees. You can locate this report through our website at: https://www.ttuhsc.edu/emergency/clery-report.aspx.

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Senior Correctional Psychologist