Job Requisition ID: 54035
Opening Date: 06/25/2026
Closing Date: 07/09/2026
Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST - 08250
Skill Option: None
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: (Effective 7/1/26) $8,060 - $12,379 per month ($96,720 - $148,548 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time
County: Madison
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 The Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery (DBHR) is seeking to hire a Clinical Psychologist for the Alton Mental Health Center located in Alton, Illinois, responsible for communicating to treatment teams the results of, and will provide treatment recommendations based on: (1) administration of psychological assessments (intellectual, personality, and neuropsychological screenings) and/or (2) an assessment of historical and clinical risk factors. For those patients that are dually diagnosed as, or for whom a dual diagnosis of mental illness and developmental or intellectual disability is suspected, the clinical psychologist will communicate the results of intelligence testing to the treatment team, especially at the time of the comprehensive and/or annual treatment planning collaborations.
Essential Functions - Performs psychological assessments to address specific questions and/or purposes on an assigned unit.
- Develops and implements behavior management plans to assist patients in the acquisition of new skills/adaptive behavior and the elimination or reduction of maladaptive behavior.
- Assesses patients, forensic or civil, who is known or suspected to be dually diagnosed (MI/ID) for intellectual and adaptive functioning skills and provides professional reports upon admission or as soon as possible after any psychiatric or medical barriers to testing have been addressed.
- Conducts group and/or individual psychotherapy and documents treatment in the clinical record.
- Testifies in criminal and/or mental health court hearings. Travels in the performance of job duties.
- Provides facility wide professional trainings.
- Serves as adjunct member of all treatment teams, participates in treatment planning conferences and professional reports and reviews making recommendations based on clinical expertise, testing and case reviews.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications - Requires current license as a Clinical Psychologist by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
Conditions of Employment - Requires the ability to meet the requirements for credentialling and privileging as a consulting member of the medical staff of Alton Mental Health Center within 30 days of employment.
- Requires the ability to work within multiple interdisciplinary teams.
- Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
- Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certification.
- Requires ability to pass CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute) training within the probationary period including the physical ability to prevent injury to patient or others by restraining patients if necessary.
- Requires the physical ability to access various worksites throughout the hospital for administrative and clinical duties.
- Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
- Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
- Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
*The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm; 1-hour unpaid lunch
Forensic Units D & E
Headquarter Location: 4500 College Ave, Alton, Illinois, 62002
Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery
Alton Mental Health Center
Psychology Department - Forensic Units D & E
Work County: Madison
Agency Contact: [email protected]Posting Group: Health Services; Social Services
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