at DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES in Anna, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Location: Anna, IL, US, 62906-1652
Job Requisition ID: 38263
Agency: Department of Human Services
Opening Date: 07/05/2024
Closing Date/Time: 07/18/2024
Salary: Anticipated Salary: (Eff 7/1/24) $7,491-$11,015/month ($89,892-$132,180/year)
Job Type: Salaried
County: Union
Work Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm; Monday-Friday, two late weekdays of 10:30am-7:00pm per month, candidate's choice
Work Location: 1000 N Main St, Anna, Illinois, 62906-1652, Division of Developmental Disabilities, Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, DD Services
Position Overview
The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Clinical Psychologist for the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center located in Anna, Illinois to diagnose individual’s mental illness and provide professional psychological assessment and treatment services for a broad range of intellectually and developmentally disabled adults throughout the facility. Prepares and signs certificates for admission. Provides testimony as an expert witness in court proceedings. Serves as working supervisor to lower-level staff.
Job Responsibilities
- Serves as Clinical Psychologist for the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center.
- Serves as working supervisor.
- Prepares and signs certificates for admission.
- Diagnoses individual's mental illness and provides professional psychological assessment and treatment services for a broad range of intellectually and developmentally disabled adults throughout the facility.
- Provides psychotherapy for individuals in individual, group, or family contexts to resolve psychological and interpersonal problems, develop coping and planning skills, and improves personal, social and occupational functioning.
- 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 physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to individual or others.
- Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends, and holidays.
- Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
- 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
*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
