State of Illinois - Department of Human Services (PSYCHOLOGIST II)

Posting Identification Number 50815

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Position Overview
The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Psychologist II for the Ludeman Developmental Center located in Park Forest, Illinois to conduct professional psychological services to individuals within the assigned caseload. Designs and implements behavior modification programs. Assists more experienced psychologists in training staff in the techniques of behavior modification and learning theory. Conducts individual, group and family therapy. Administers and completes comprehensive psychological assessments and psychological tests. Designs and evaluates behavioral management programs. Counts data and use information for programming decisions. Serves as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team, providing community linkages to the team. Serves as a member of psychology services committees and groups and completes treatment documentation.
Essential Functions
•       Conducts professional psychological services to individuals within the assigned caseload at Ludeman Developmental Center.
•       Conducts individual, group and family therapy.
•       Serves as a treatment team member, formulates goals and objectives for the comprehensive treatment plans.
•       Administers and completes comprehensive psychological assessments and psychological tests.
•       Completes documentation for assignments, master treatment plans, subsequent treatment plan monthly reviews, discharge staffing, discharge summaries and relapse plan.
•       Serves as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team, providing community linkages to the team.
•       Serves as a member of psychology services committees and groups.
•       Keeps abreast of any new psychology-based developments and/or treatments regarding developmentally disabled individuals.
•       Performs other duties as assigned or required which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
•       Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to a doctoral degree in psychology from a recognized college or university supplemented by one (1) year of professional experience in psychology. For candidates not possessing these qualifications, a master's degree in psychology from a recognized college or university is a minimum requirement. If the minimum educational requirement is met, four (4) years' qualifying professional psychology experience may be substituted for the doctoral degree in psychology and one (1) years' experience.
•       This class is included as an Upward Mobility Program credential title.
Conditions of Employment
•       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 physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to individual or others.
•       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.