Description

Senior Psychosocial Faculty

The Department of Family and Social Medicine (Behavioral Science Unit) and Department of Psychiatry seek a full-time NYS licensed psychologists (PhD/PsyD) to join their team. This exciting and rewarding opportunity will allow the successful candidate to develop and coordinate the implementation of a behavioral science curriculum for the Residency Program in Family Medicine, assist in the development and implementation of the behavioral science/psychosocial components of the Social Pediatrics residency, and conduct diagnostic intake evaluations and provide psychotherapy to children and adolescents and/or adults clinical via the Department of Psychiatry’s Montefiore-Einstein Psychiatry Associates (MEPA), a multidisciplinary outpatient behavioral health faculty group practice serving patients in the greater NYC area including Westchester (http://www.MEPANow.com). The faculty member will promote the quality social justice focused medical education of family medicine and pediatric residents and faculty by integrating a socio-culturally responsive, psychosocial, and behavioral health perspective in their clinical and educational activities. The faculty member may also assist in the development and implementation of teaching in the Advanced Primary Care Psychology Fellowship and/or the Primary Care Family Psychology Externship programs and will also have opportunities to participate in teaching and supervision, as well as for research, program development, and quality improvement initiatives for the Department of Psychiatry.

Required Education/Skills:

• Licensed or license-eligible as a psychologist in NY State
• PhD or PsyD in Psychology from an APA/PCSAS-accredited graduate program
• Clinical and teaching experiences in medical settings
• Demonstrated expertise in teaching psychosocial pediatrics and/or family medicine areas
• Expertise on the clinical management of mental health problems, particularly as they are presented in primary care practices

Skills and experience in some of the following areas is preferred:

• Child, adolescent, and adult developmental issues
• Approaches to health promotion and behavioral health change
• Sociocultural humility and responsive care/ sociocultural competence and social justice
• Educational methods in medicine and psychology training
• Formal training at the graduate or postdoctoral level in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Family System Theory, mind-body techniques, and/or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Familiarity with medical practices and models of behavioral health /primary care integration as they pertain to care of children, adolescents, and adults across the life span, and in primary care
• Using routine, empirically based outcome measures
• Using telehealth
• Providing therapy with children and adolescents and/or adults
• Treating individuals with mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, and/or eating disorders

Salary range: $78,000 -$105,000

To Be Considered
Qualified candidates should e-mail a résumé, cover letter summarizing their interest and background to Yolanda Harris-Ayo, yayo@montefiore.org.

Montefiore (https://www.montefiore.org) is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.