Job description
Children’s Mercy is in the heart of Kansas City – a metro abounding in cultural experiences, vibrant communities and thriving businesses. This is where our patients and families live, work and play. This is a community that has embraced our hospital and we strive to say thanks by giving back. As a leader in children’s health, we engage in meaningful programs and partnerships throughout the region so that we can improve the lives of children beyond the walls of our hospital.
The Division of Developmental and Behavioral Health is seeking a full-time psychologist to join our dynamic, cohesive multidisciplinary team in the rapidly growing Eating Disorders Center at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. The Eating Disorders Center is comprised of a team of 14 providers and 4 nurses specializing in the medical, psychological, and nutritional treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder and related disorders.
The center is committed to providing excellent integrated outpatient care to children/teens with eating disorders and their families. Clinical care is offered through two outpatient treatment tracks in the center: family–oriented multidisciplinary team treatment and formalized family-based treatment (Maudsley approach); as well as inpatient medical stabilization at Children’s Mercy Kansas Hospital.
The center’s psychologists also are active in collaborative research and provide training and supervision through the APA-accredited psychology internship and APPIC fellowship. The center’s psychologists also train medical residents and fellows through academic appointments through the University of Missouri- Kansas City. This position offers the opportunity to participate in program development related to treating binge eating disorder and developing intensive outpatient treatment programming.
Primary responsibilities include: evaluate children/adolescents with eating disorders and their families in an outpatient setting; actively collaborate to provide integrated psychological care as a member of the center’s multidisciplinary team; assist in further developing programs and implementing empirically-based treatment modalities such as CBT, DBT, FBT, and ACT; serve as a consultant to Children’s Mercy medical staff and community providers participate in Children’s Mercy medical staff and UMKC School of Medicine committees and service.
- PhD in clinical child psychology or clinical psychology
- completed an APA-accredited internship
- completed a post-doctoral fellowship focused in clinical child psychology, pediatric eating disorders or other relevant area
- expertise in providing evidence-based treatment for eating disorders (e.g., CBT, FBT, DBT, ACT.)
- experience working with families with significant psychosocial stressors
- license-eligible in the states of Missouri and Kansas
- certification by the American Board of Professional Psychology within five years of employment.
At Children’s Mercy, we are committed to ensuring that everyone feels welcomed within our walls. A successful candidate for this position will join us as we strive to create a workplace that reflects the community we serve, as well as our core values of kindness, curiosity, inclusion, team and integrity.
Additionally, it’s important to us that we remain transparent with all potential job candidates. Because we value the safety of the patients and families we serve, as well as the Children’s Mercy staff, we want to let you know that the seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccines are a condition of employment for all employees in our organization. New employees must be willing to be vaccinated if found non-immune to measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and chicken pox (varicella) and/or without evidence of tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccination since 2005. If you become a finalist for this position, and have any concerns about receiving these vaccines, medical and/or religious exemptions can be further discussed with Human Resources.
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