Clinical Psychologist

Provides direct clinical services such as psychological testing, case consultation, clinical supervision, and diagnostic evaluations on patients and families within a multidisciplinary team setting.

Located on the downtown Orlando campus, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children has been providing compassionate care to the children, teenagers and young adults of Central Florida for more than 30 years. With 156 licensed beds and a team of experts in more than 30 pediatric specialties, the hospital has earned Best Children’s Hospitals from U.S. News & World Report for 15 consecutive years with national rankings in four specialties and Top Children’s Hospital from The Leapfrog Group. Orlando Health Arnold Palmer has held Magnet® Recognition for nursing excellence and quality patient care since 2013, and several units have earned Beacon Awards for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Our pediatric Level I Trauma Center and ER is the only Central Florida facility to provide the highest level of emergency trauma care exclusively to children, and Orlando Health Arnold Palmer is the only facility in Florida to achieve Level I Children’s Surgical Verification and Level I Trauma Verification by the American College of Surgeons.

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer is part of the Orlando Health system of care, which includes award-winning hospitals and ERs, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices and outpatient facilities that span Florida’s east to west coasts, Central Alabama and Puerto Rico. Collectively, our dedicated team members honor our over 100-year legacy by providing professional and compassionate care to the patients, families and communities we serve.

Orlando Health is committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, with career-growing FREE education programs and well-being services to support you and your family through every stage of life. We begin our benefits on day one and offer flexibility wherever possible, so that you can be present for your passions. “Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work” is not just something we say, it’s our promise to you.

Essential Functions
• Participates as a member of the Family Support Plan Team and makes recommendations for appropriate early intervention services.
• Contributes to the development and/or maintenance of clinical programs.
• Psychologically evaluates patients and their total situation to determine appropriate care plan to meet the needs of the patient, as well as the patient's family.
• Assesses patient needs through clinical interview, chart/history review, and psychological testing procedures.
• Supervises doctoral students.
• Maintains current knowledge of procedures, equipment, and supplies necessary for state-of-the art assessment and treatment of patients and makes recommendations to the Clinical Team Leader for revision/renewal.
• Consults with physician, nursing personnel and other members of the multidisciplinary team to develop optimal treatment plans for patients.
• Provides all services in a family-centered, strengths oriented manner. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status, identify patient’s needs and provide the appropriate care and treatment planning.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

Other Related Functions
• Acts as an education resource to the departments and health care teams.
• Intervenes as a crisis counselor in situations requiring immediate psychological treatment as deemed appropriate by the respective Department Manager/Medical Director(s).
• Complies with established hospital and department policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance, and safety and infection control.
• Maintains required records, reports and files

Education/Training
• Doctorate in Psychology from an APA approved program.
• Completion of an APA approved pre-doctoral internship.
• Completion of residency requirements for the State of Florida.

Licensure/Certification
Licensure as a psychologist, in the State of Florida.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) certification required for certain Pediatric Specialty Practices.

Experience
Two (2) years’ experience as a child psychologist, to include postdoctoral experience.