What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychologist - Medical position at CoreCivic of Tennessee, LLC - 20 Hobo Fork Road?
Job Details:
The Psychologist plans and implements all professional psychological service programs of a non-medical nature in the facility. These programs must be aligned with the organization's goals and objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinates and directs the activities of personnel engaged in providing psychological services to inmates/residents. This includes ensuring that staff are trained and equipped to provide high-quality care.
- Conducts psychological screenings and assessments based on review of available records, and clinical interviews with inmates. The goal is to identify mental health needs and develop effective treatment plans.
- As part of a mental health team, confers with other clinical staff, e.g., psychiatrists, mental health service providers, physicians, nurses, social workers, in order to gather and provide information concerning patient psychological problems, to ensure treatment activities are well integrated, and patient care follow-through occurs.
- Provides treatment to inmates by developing, implementing, and modifying individual treatment plans based on evaluation of needs and level of functioning.
- Makes regular rounds in segregation or other confined housing areas to assess inmate adjustment and mental health treatment needs.
- Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of psychological counseling theory and techniques by way of treatments and activities used for individuals in caseload.
- Provides appropriate mental health assessments, counseling, and confrontation avoidance interventions to address the needs of inmates in crisis.
- Consults with psychiatry, mental health, nursing, medical, educational, chaplain, security staff, and others, as applicable to gather information and understanding into the reasons for the escalation of problems behaviors and changes in mental health condition of inmates.
