Post Doctoral Resident

A fully accredited facility, University Health Services (UHS) at Princeton University provides responsive, high quality clinical, preventive, and consultative health services to over 8,000 Princeton undergraduate and graduate students and their dependents, and occupational health services to Princeton University faculty, staff, and employees. An integrated, evidence-informed model guides all UHS practices and services. UHS leverages clinical encounters and prevention efforts into meaningful opportunities for our members to learn about and adopt healthy living practices. UHS also supports a public health approach that prevents or responds rapidly to illness outbreaks and injury, and advances, preserves, or restores students’ capacity to take full advantage of their education. 

UHS’s mission is to enhance learning and student success by advancing the health and well-being of our diverse University community. This mission is pursued and supports the University’s purpose by using current knowledge of health and human development to guide responsive, high quality clinical, prevention, and consultation services. 

UHS’s values are Respect & Compassionate Care; Integrity & Service Excellence; Collaboration & Innovative Solutions; & Engagement & Lifelong Learning. 

UHS hires individuals of all backgrounds. We build on our staff’s diversity--recognizing, valuing, and appreciating the different perspectives, talents and energy of all. UHS invites all its employees to make a valuable contribution in this regard. We firmly believe that being an inclusive and culturally responsive community is one of the foundations of a vibrant, relevant organization. We aspire to develop the mindsets, knowledge and abilities to build equitable and inclusive systems, teams and culture. 

In addition, UHS embraces an organization-wide commitment to quality and performance improvement. We aspire to be an organization in which all employees devote themselves to individual and systemic efforts to improve what they do so that all clients are well-served. Consistent with this direction, we hire individuals who are engaged, strive for excellence, and support continuous quality efforts. 

As a member of the UHS staff, your job may be deemed “essential” as defined by University and UHS policy. Please ask you supervisor for additional information. 

POSITION SUMMARY 

The position provides direct clinical services to our undergraduate and graduate student population, including urgent care and crisis intervention, psychological evaluations, time-limited individual and group psychotherapeutic treatment, on call services, campus liaison, mental health education, and community referral services.  Also, UHS has an active Inpatient Service that provides 24 hour health coverage. As such, this post-doctoral resident position involves the provision of primary after-hours, on-call coverage, assigned at the discretion of the CPS Manager of Post-Doctoral Training. 

The Post-Doctoral Resident  demonstrates the potential to develop sophisticated diagnostic skills and specialized knowledge in certain content areas, such as substance abuse, eating disorders, severe personality and identity problems, and affect regulation disturbances and demonstrates training and experience in the use of specialized treatments that are professionally recognized as effective for these content areas e.g. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for affect and behavior regulation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders etc. The particular skill and knowledge set to be further developed will include a strong understanding of the full range of developmental and mental health challenges affecting late adolescents and young adults, which the Resident will accrue via intensive supervised clinical experience, and participation in weekly didactic seminars and clinical case conferences. 

Clinical Care (60%)

• Provides urgent care and crisis intervention; performs psychological evaluations, and time-limited individual and group psychotherapeutic treatment
• Serves on an on call-after hours rotation with other CPS psychologists/social workers.
• Performs specialized evaluations for students of concern: these include administrative, readmission, exit, and post-hospital evaluations 
• Uses clinical data to inform diagnostic assessments (DSM-V) and treatment planning 
• Engages in campus outreach and community education related to mental health issues
• Participates on select UHS multidisciplinary treatment teams 
• Serves as a mental health consultant to other University partners and stakeholders, and a community referral resource for students 
• Provides oversight and coordination of one or more of the systems and processes in the clinic. These include the urgent care system that provides triage, evaluation, and clinical care services for high risk and emergent cases, decanal consultations (which provide appropriate consultations to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, ODUS), the directors of Student Life, DSL, and the Graduate School, GS.
• Effectively manages the daily clinical operations, and/or development of new clinical services in response to changing needs of the student body.

Supervision/Conferencing/Didactics (24%)

• Individual & Peer Supervision
• Group Supervision
• Didactic Training (Seminar)
• Clinical Case Conference
• Support Group

Administrative Management (16%)  

• Participates in UHS, Campus Life, and University committees, as assigned by the Associate Director and Director 
• Involved in other initiatives, projects, and activities, as assigned by the Associate Director and Director

Performs other duties as assigned 

Required: Completion of pre-doctoral internship (APA-Accredited preferred), experience with a broad range of clients (multiculturally and diagnostically) and completion of all doctoral program requirements (APA-accredited preferred) in clinical or counseling psychology.

Preferred: Prior experience working in a university mental health service; experience treating patients with substance abuse problems, eating disorders, and/or trauma history; experience leading groups; experience working effectively with people on a broad spectrum of social identities; experience working with multiply diagnosed patients; DBT experience; mindfulness and meditation experience.

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