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Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Post Doctoral Psychology Fellow in West Chester, Pennsylvania
Description
Are you seeking a Post-Doctoral Fellowship within a behavioral health setting with adolescents? Do you enjoy a clinical environment that is based on evidence based practices and outcomes?
If you answered YES, then consider joining our Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health team!
Devereux SPARC (Southeastern Pennsylvania Autism Resource Center) provides diagnostic assessment and skills-based intervention designed to improve meaningful outcomes for children and adults.
SPARC has a Postdoctoral Fellow opening for the 2024–2025 training year. The Postdoctoral Fellow position is a 12-month appointment with a start date of August 1, 2024.
Position Description:
Conduct comprehensive diagnostic assessments, with a focus in the areas of neurodevelopmental and behavioral disorders
Provide consultation to programs and individuals in public, private and alternative school settings.
Deliver evidence-based interventions for the development of skills in the areas of executive functioning, daily living, self-management, self-advocacy, and social-communication in group and individual sessions.
Participate in program development for effective and neuro-affirming therapeutic interventions.
Provide supervision to undergraduate and graduate trainees.
Qualifications:
Successful completion of pre-doctoral training in school or clinical psychology
Strong behavioral background with training in ABA, CBT, ACT and DBT interventions
Extensive knowledge of evidence-based practices for neurodevelopmental disorders
Desire to create engaging, creative and compassionate therapeutic interventions
Ability to work collaboratively with team members with different training backgrounds
Excellent writing skills
You will be offered:
Opportunities to participate in research and publish
Exposure to other disciplines, networking opportunities, external stakeholders, etc.
Consultation across disciplines, present progress monitoring data to internal/external stakeholders
Gain post-doctoral exposure to youth and families with high acuity mental and behavioral health diagnoses
CEUs, supervision toward licensure, supervisory training
Qualifications
Education: Completed Ph.D., Psy.D. or Ed.D. in School or Clinical Psychology.
Experience: Must have completed a pre-doctoral psychology internship of 2,000 hours (preferably APA-approved).
Cover letter describing your career goals and how this fellowship will help you to achieve your goals
Two letters of recommendation (at least one letter must be from an intern supervisor)
Curriculum vitae
Graduate Transcripts
Letter from the department chair at your university indicating that your degree will be complete prior to the start date of the postdoctoral training position (August 1, 2024).
Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization.
Posted Date 3 months ago (3/21/2024 12:55 PM)
Requisition ID 2024-36247
Category Clinical
Position Type Full-Time
The employment policies of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health are to recruit and hire qualified employees without discrimination because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, communication ability, gender identity or expression or sexual orientation and to treat them equally with respect to compensation and opportunities for advancement - including upgrading, promotion and transfer - consistent with individual skills and the needs of Devereux.
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