Psychology Service Extender

Description

We are North Idaho’s premier provider of integrated medical, dental and behavioral health services. Our amazing care teams deliver world-class healthcare utilizing a patient directed, community-focused approach. Providing high quality, affordable Healthcare from the Heart is our passion. Our mission is to deliver a healthcare experience that provides hope, inspires change, and extends life for our patients and our community.

Top reasons to join our team:

• Our employees are mission – minded
• We are passionate about providing excellent patient care
• Community-focused
• Committed to a fun and supportive team environment
• We offer high-quality competitive employee benefits

To administer and score psychological test batteries evaluating cognitive, academic, neuropsychological, behavioral, and emotional status including those clients which are difficult, complex or have disorders in a specialty, in order to assist Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Neurologists, and other medical professionals in treatment decisions. To administer standardized testing appropriate to determine localization of brain lesions, ability to return to school after injury or illness, appropriate school placement, learning disability, and other treatment decisions. To provide technical support to Psychologists on specialty teams and clinical research projects.  

Requirements

• Graduate of a master’s level program in Psychology, Counseling or Human Development or related field. 
• Must possess an Idaho Service Extender license.   

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• Ability to maintain HIPAA compliance.  
• Ability to maintain confidentiality. 
• Ability to work in a team and independent setting.  
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.  
• Must pass State-required background check. 
• Must be computer literate. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Administer and score psychological tests as defined in competencies for a Psychology Service Extender. 
• Assists clinical psychologists in selection of test to be administered. Trouble-shoot difficult testing situations and administer tests that are developmentally appropriate for the child. 
• Adapt the administration of test to the specific needs of each client while staying within the standardized procedures stet forth for each specific test. 
• Score tests administered, including objective personality tests administered by Psychologist. 
• Write progress notes in the medical record to keep care team informed of the status of referrals. 
• Attend training offered by the department as well as by outside organizations. 
• Assist with the training of new Psychology Service Extenders. 
• Provide data for Psychologists which will contribute to the assessment of a clients needs. 
• Perform duties at the desired level of competency. 
• Review and ensure timeliness, accuracy, and availability and security of information. 
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned. 

Safety: 

Heritage Health enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment. Each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements, participating in emergency response tasks as requested, and serving on safety committees and teams as requested. In addition, employees must accept the responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves and others by adhering to all written and verbal instructions, promptly reporting and/or correcting all hazards or unsafe conditions and providing feedback to supervisors and management on all safety issues. 

Physical/Mental Requirements:

Required to stand, sit, and be mobile one-third to two-thirds of the time. Required to use hands to finger, handle or feel over two-thirds of the time; while reaching with hands and arms occurs one-third of the day. Climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling or crouching occur less than one-third of the time. Communicating by talking / hearing occurs over two-thirds of the day. Amount of time spent lifting or exerting force is about 50% for up to 10 pounds and less than one-third of the time up to 25 – 40 pounds. Rarely is there a need to lift more than 41 pounds.  

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Ability to solve complex practical problems  

Interpersonal and persuasion skills  

Must be able to simultaneously manage several objectives and assign priorities  

Deal with a wide variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization exists  

Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written or oral form 

Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines with a strong organization skill set for easy retrieval of information and to ensure competent closure of issues 

With or without reasonable accommodation, individual may be required to sit and stand regularly, occasionally lift 0-50 pounds, manage efficient keyboard use, hear, see, speak and read.?  

Ability to work overtime as needed, maintain alertness & meet the controlled substance policy.  

Good judgment and sound decision making and conflict management skills to inspire confidence from the customer  

Manage complex analysis and use deductive reasoning 

Working Conditions:

Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment in a clinic. Work may be demanding and chaotic at times. Exposed to patient population that will present a variety of contagious diseases, physical injuries, and emotional states of mind. 

Salary : $26 - $38