Description
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Job Summary:
Provides comprehensive psychology services to patients and their families with duties to include evaluations, outpatient and inpatient clinical consultation, patient and family counseling (e.g., understanding of medical/clinical procedures, emotional adaptation to chronic illness, adjustment to procedures, adherence to medical regimen), and collaboration during team meetings, multi-disciplinary conferences, regarding listing decision and patient management strategies.
Description of Job Responsibilities:
1. Collaboration - Act as a team member with medical staff, nursing and other ancillary support services. Supervision of pre-doctoral interns, practicum students, and post -doctoral fellows. Participation in multidisciplinary selection conferences, support groups, and other departmental activities/meetings.
2. Continuous Quality Improvement- Participate in quality assurance, utilization review, and performance improvement programs.
3. Educations - Provide professional guidance and input during the development of new policies, formulation of new protocols, procedures, and programs. Provide professional consultation and participation in all aspects of accreditation, licensure and certification requirements.
4. Patient Care - Provide psychological evaluations and follow up consultation for patients and their families. Provide follow up services as needed.
Education requirements: Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology.
Licensure/ Certification Requirements: Currently licensed as a Psychologist and eligible to practice in the state of North Carolina or within three months of the start date.
Professional Experience Requirements:
Previous experience highly preferred but not required.
Legal Employer: NCHEALTH
Entity: UNC Health Medical Group
Organization Unit: Brain and Body Health Program
Work Type: Per Diem
Standard Hours Per Week: 4.00
Salary Range: $44.56 - $64.06 per hour (Hiring Range)
Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
Work Assignment Type: Onsite
Work Schedule: Day Job
Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill
Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes
This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
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Our Mission
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Who We Are
UNC Health is a not-for-profit integrated healthcare system owned by the state of North Carolina and based in Chapel Hill. With 15 hospitals across the state, UNC Health is committed to empowering health, not just health care. From Magnet recognition to being named Forbes’ top-ranked healthcare system employer for women in the entire Southeast, we're proud to say that our hard work is consistently recognized, awarded, and celebrated.
UNC Health and our 40,000 employees, continue to serve as North Carolina’s Health Care System, caring for patients from all 100 counties and beyond our borders. We continue to leverage the world-class research conducted in the UNC School of Medicine, translating that innovation into life-saving and life-changing therapies, procedures, and techniques for the patients who rely on us.

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