POSITION HIGHLIGHTS - SHIFT: First shift, full-time, 40 hours per week.
- SCHEDULE: 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday
- LOCATION: York Correctional Institution (East Lyme, CT)
- NOTE: This is a Hazardous Duty position. Selected candidates will be required to attend a 3.5-week hazardous duty training at the Maloney Center for Training & Staff Development located in Cheshire, CT. See Selection Plan for more information.
Future positions may be available to any one of our facilities based on the Department needs:
- Bridgeport Correctional Institution - Bridgeport, CT
- Garner Correctional Institution - Newtown, CT
YOUR ROLE Psychologists work within a dynamic, fast-paced, multidisciplinary team comprised of social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and APRNs, as well as medical personnel and custody staff, all sharing the common goal of providing high quality, service-oriented care to our incarcerated populations. Psychologists within the correctional setting provide a range of clinical, administrative and clinical supervisory functions to persons in custody.
In this role, you will work within a clinically rich setting, with opportunities to provide a mix of clinical, supervisory and administrative functions. These duties include:
- Administrative Management: manage staff scheduling and coverage;
- Clinical Supervision: provide clinical supervision to both masters' prepared staff and doctoral level graduate students/interns;
- Clinical Healthcare: conduct psychological testing, deliver individual and group psychotherapy and implement behavior management strategies.
The Psychologist is also be responsible for providing clinical consultative services within the facility for complex cases. Additional opportunities to engage in collaborative care planning with external support services and research driven programming, are also encouraged and available.
More details can be found in the class specification.
Selection PlanFOR ASSISTANCE IN APPLYING: Check out our Applicant Tips on How to Apply! Need more resources? Visit our Applicant Toolkit for additional support throughout the recruitment process.
BEFORE YOU APPLY: - Meet Minimum Qualifications: Ensure you meet the Minimum Qualifications listed on the job opening by the job closing date. You must specify your qualifications on your application. The minimum experience and training requirements listed must be met by the close date on the job opening, unless otherwise specified.
- Educational Credits: List your earned credits and degrees from accredited institutions accurately on your application. To receive educational credits towards qualification, the institution must be accredited. If the institution of higher learning is located outside of the U.S., you are responsible for providing documentation from a recognized USA accrediting service which specializes in determining foreign education equivalencies to the contact listed below by the closing date listed on the job posting.
- Resume Policy: Per Public Act 21-69, resumes are not accepted during the initial application process. As the recruitment process progresses, candidates may be required to submit additional documentation to support their qualification(s) for this position. This documentation may include: a cover letter, resume, transcripts, diplomas, performance reviews, attendance records, supervisory references, licensure, etc., at the request and discretion of the hiring agency.
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- Preferred Shift/Location: Select all location(s) and shift(s) you are willing to work on your application. Failure to do so may result in not being considered for vacancies in that specific location or shift.
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PURPOSE OF JOB CLASS (NATURE OF WORK) In a state facility this class is accountable for performing the full range of psychotherapy or other professional psychological services including diagnostic testing, behavior modification, program development and evaluation, community outreach, education and training, rehabilitation and/or research.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES - Participates in and coordinates clinical psychological services for a complex ward or group of wards or comparable units staffed by psychiatric, nursing or other individual care personnel;
- Provides consultation on difficult cases representing complex intellectual, emotional and/or social problems;
- Engages in diagnostic and psychotherapeutic services;
- Attends staff meetings;
- Coordinates psychological treatment modalities with other disciplines and services;
- Develops and implements new service programs;
- Conducts research and reports findings in a manner suitable for professional publication;
- Consults with community agencies and organizations;
- Conducts training sessions for interns and staff and may participate in training of psychiatric residents;
- May address lay and professional groups;
- Performs related duties as required.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY - Considerable knowledge of
- abnormal and clinical psychology;
- and skill in selection, administration, scoring and evaluation of intelligence, achievement, personality and diagnostic tests;
- psychological research methodology including experimental design, data analysis and application of findings;
- Knowledge of other psychological disciplines;
- Considerable
- interpersonal skills;
- oral and written communication skills;
- Considerable ability to
- make clinical diagnoses and prognoses and develop treatment plans;
- conduct psychotherapy;
- write case histories, discharge summaries and professional reports;
- Ability to coordinate clinical services with comprehensive and multidisciplinary treatment plans.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCEA doctorate degree in clinical or counseling psychology and one (1) year of post-doctoral experience as a psychologist working under the supervision of a licensed psychologist.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience with justice involved populations;
- Experience with crisis management;
- Experience with behavior management.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS - Incumbents in this class must possess and retain a license to practice psychology in Connecticut. Any person employed by the State of Connecticut prior to July 1, 1985 with a title in the Psychology series of the classified service shall be exempt from the above licensure requirement pursuant to Public Act 613, Section 119(c). For certain positions the appointing authority may require state licensure.
- Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain eligibility for participation in federal health care programs as defined in 42 U.S. a7 1320a-7b(f).
- Incumbents in this class may be required to be fluent in a foreign language or proficient in the use of American Sign Language.
- Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.
WORKING CONDITIONSIncumbents in this class may be required to lift and restrain individuals or inmates; may have some exposure to communicable/infectious diseases and to risk of injury from assaultive/abusive individuals or inmates; may be exposed to disagreeable conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT As defined by Sec. 5-196 of the Connecticut General Statutes, a job class is a position or group of positions that share general characteristics and are categorized under a single title for administrative purposes. As such, a job class is not meant to be all-inclusive of every task and/or responsibility.
