Job Requisition ID: 57147
Opening Date: 07/13/2026
Closing Date: 07/24/2026
Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST - 08250
Skill Option: None
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $8,060 - $11,851 per month ($96,720 - $142,212 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
County: Cook
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC063 Professional Employees, Educators,Juvenile Justice School Counselors and Special Education Resources Coordinators,and Physicians AFSCME
Merit Comp Code:This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.While not required, a Resume/Curriculum Vitae (CV) is recommended. When applicable, titles that require specific coursework, professional license or certification will include a notation requesting the appropriate document(s) be uploaded in the Additional Documents section of your application. Failure to upload requested transcripts, license and/or proof of certification when specified may result in ineligibility. Please note that the Department of Human Services must verify proof of higher education for any degree earned (if applicable) regardless of vacancy title before any offer can be extended.
All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through the illinois.jobs2web.com website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the SuccessFactors employee career portal.Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.Position Overview Under general direction of the Director of Psychology, provides psychological services on an assigned unit or units. Services include psychological testing (e.g., personality, cognitive, neurocognitive); treatment (individual, group and family therapies), behavioral analysis and creation of behavior modification programs; program development and consultation. Provides fitness restoration services for UST consumers, written court reports including status updates and privilege increase requests and testifying in criminal court regarding privilege increases. Functions as Qualified Intellectual Disabilities Professional (QIDP) for consumers with mental illness and intellectually disability. Interviews and evaluates consumers to assess need for involuntary hospitalization, completes certificates or petitions for involuntary admission and testifies as expert witness in mental health court as indicated. Ensures compliance with Joint Commission standards and other agency goals standards and objectives. Participates as a member of the treatment team at Chicago-Read Mental Health Center. Maintains treatment records and other documentation. Participates in aggression management training and assists in managing aggression.
Essential Functions - Provides psychological services on an assigned unit or units. Services include psychological testing (e.g., personality, cognitive, neurocognitive).
- Participates as a member of the treatment planning process.
- Provides fitness restoration services for consumers who are Unfit to Stand Trial (UST), writes court reports for forensic consumers (status updates and privilege increases) and testifies in criminal court regarding privilege increases.
- Maintains treatment records and other documentation in accordance with Chicago-Read standards and policies.
- Develops behavior modification plans for consumers who display maladaptive behaviors.
- Participates in hospital-wide committees (as needed or required).
- Participates in aggression management training and assists in managing aggression on unit, on hospital grounds and elsewhere on duty as needed, including participation in physical restraining of consumers.
- As a member of the treatment team, identifies consumers that are more likely to need or benefit from psychological assessment.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications - Requires current licensure as a Clinical Psychologist by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
Conditions of Employment - Requires the ability to attain a certificate as a Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional (QIDP) within two years of hire.
- Requires the ability to meet the performance standards of the Psychology Department as a Clinical Psychologist.
- Requires the ability to meet the requirements of credentialing and privileging as a consulting member of the medical staff at Chicago Read Mental Health Center within 30 days of employment.
- Requires the ability to obtain and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, CPR and Automated External Defibrillator, AED) Certification.
- Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
- Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
Work Hours: see below;
Monday - Friday with the choice of 7am-3pm, 7:30am-3:30pm, 8am-4pm, 8:30-4:30pm, or 9am-5pm. Each shift requires 1 late day per week of 11am-7pm,12pm-8pm, or 1pm-9pm; Every weekend off with the exception of working one weekend day every six weeks with the corresponding Friday off; 30-minute unpaid lunch; Psychology J-Units
Headquarter Location: 4200 N Oak Park Ave, Chicago, Illinois, 60634
Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery
Chicago-Read Mental Health Center
Psychology Department
Work County: Cook
Agency Contact: [email protected]Posting Group: Health Services; Social Services
For more information about our benefits please follow this link: https://cms.illinois.gov/benefits/stateemployee.html
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