Psychologist Jobs

The Utah Department of Corrections is looking to hire a licensed Psychologist to provide psychological services to the inmates in the Utah State Correctional Facility. You will provide psychological services to our sex offender inmates, participate in the delivering of psychological services for the prison system, and participate as a member of the clinical treatment teams providing recommendations for inmate treatment and related activities.
Principle Duties

• Consulting with other institutional staff regarding clinical and correctional management issues. This may include being a member of multidisciplinary treatment teams and attending treatment team meetings on a regular basis.
• You will be responsible for providing services to Utah Department of Corrections inmates with convictions for sexual offenses.
• Some evaluations may be conducted at the Davis County Jail as needed.
• Performance of comprehensive psychosexual evaluations, as well as other relevant psychological evaluations, which will be the primary responsibility. These may include intellectual, cognitive, neuropsychological screening, personality testing, psychiatric symptom checklists, sexual risk instruments and other testing measures as needed.
• Individual and group psychotherapy with inmates remains a possibility, as desired by the psychologist; opportunities for supervising student interns are also available.

Ideal Candidate
The Best Candidate For This Position Is Someone Who

• Doctorate degree (Ph.D. or Psy.D) in Psychology from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).
• Psychologist will adhere to all appropriate standards of practice as outlined by the American Psychological Association, State Licensing Board, Utah Department of Corrections and the Board of Pardons.
• Current Utah license as a Psychologist.
• Has at least 2 year of experience providing treatment to clients.

If no candidate is licensed as a Psychologist in the State of Utah, this position may be filled with a Psychological Assistant II. To qualify for the Psychological Assistant II position you must have a PhD or Psy.D and per R156-61-601(3) Individuals must receive their Psychology Resident License from DOPL within 45 days of the individual's doctoral degree posting. This job title requires a license as a Psychologist or Certified Psychology Resident per Utah Code Annotated (UCA) 58-61-301.
Why You Should Join Our Team
The Utah Department of Corrections encourages the professional growth of individual staff. The Utah Department of Corrections is a team of professionals who are dedicated to ensuring the public's safety. You will receive great health and retirement benefits. Click here to view a summary of the benefits we offer. We also provide a generous paid time off so you can spend more time with your family and have a positive work-life balance.
The Agency
The Utah Department of Corrections is a dedicated team of professionals who ensures public safety by effectively managing offenders while maintaining close collaboration with partner agencies and the community. Our team is devoted to providing maximum opportunities for offenders to make lasting changes through accountability, treatment, education, and positive reinforcement within a safe environment. For more information on the Utah Department of Corrections please click here.
Example of Duties

• Supervises subordinate personnel including: hiring, determining workload and delegating assignments, training, monitoring and evaluating performance, and initiating corrective or disciplinary actions.
• Provides consultation, makes recommendations, gives appropriate guidance, and/or facilitates decisions.
• Consults with others to discuss treatment plans, new or unusual situations, findings, options, and recommendations on client/patient cases.
• Selects, administers, interprets psychological tests and risk instruments commensurate with the referral question..
• Discuss results, findings and/or recommendations with appropriate parties.
• Develops treatment plans to help clients mobilize inner capacities and resources to improve social functioning.
• Documents client/patient progress and revises treatment plans as required; completes administrative paperwork.

Typical Qualifications
(includes knowledge, skills, and abilities required upon entry into position and trainable after entry into position)

• Enter, transcribe, record, store, or maintain information in either written or electronic form.
• Communicate information and ideas clearly, and concisely, in writing; read and understand information presented in writing
• Use non-violent crisis intervention techniques
• Supervise others by assigning/directing work; conducting employee evaluations, staff training and development, taking appropriate disciplinary/corrective actions, making hiring/termination recommendations, etc.
• Work with or contribute to a work group or team to complete assigned task(s)
• Speak clearly, concisely and effectively; listen to, and understand, information and ideas as presented verbally
• Make a decision or solve a problem by using logic to identify key facts, explore alternatives, and propose quality solutions
• Evaluate information against a set of standards
• Human behavior and performance, mental processes, psychological research, or assessment, methods, and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders
• Develop approaches for implementation of an idea, program or change in operations
• Provide individual, group and/or family counseling
• Diagnosis and therapeutic intervention
• Develop individualized treatment plans
• Provide psychological assessment and counseling
• Information and techniques needed to rehabilitate physical and mental ailments and to provide career guidance including alternative treatments, rehabilitation equipment and its proper use, and methods to evaluate treatment effectiveness