Clinical Psychologist (M89513)

Clinical Psychologist (M89513)
Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU - Richmond, VA

The Department of Psychiatry, in collaboration with the Division of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, is committed to providing comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and evidence-based psychological services to infants, children, and their caregivers. The program emphasizes high-quality care for medically complex populations, including caregiver–infant dyads in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and continuity of care through outpatient follow-up services.

Chief Purpose of this position

The Clinical Psychologist will provide specialized psychological services to caregiver–infant dyads in the NICU and follow-up programs. The role focuses on supporting caregiver mental health, promoting infant development, and improving family functioning through evidence-based assessment and intervention. The position also supports the academic mission through teaching, supervision, and program development.

Position Responsibilities

Clinical

• Provide inpatient psychological services to caregiver–infant dyads in a Level IV 60-bed NICU and a Level III 20-bed NICU throughout hospitalization. 
• Deliver services including brief behavioral interventions and psychological assessment in the Neonatal Continuing Care Program (a developmental follow-up program for high-risk infants). 
• Provide longer-term outpatient postpartum psychotherapy addressing common concerns such as PTSD, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and grief. 
• Conduct evidence-based trauma-focused treatments, including Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) with adults. 
• Participate in care coordination and consultation to support caregiver mental health and infant developmental outcomes. 

Teaching

• Provide supervision and training to psychology trainees (e.g., interns, fellows). 
• Participate in interdisciplinary education, including teaching medical students, pediatric residents, and fellows. 

Service

• Contribute to departmental and institutional service activities, including committee participation as requested. 

Administrative / Program Development

• Participate in the development and expansion of NICU and perinatal mental health services. 
• Support programmatic growth within inpatient NICU psychology services and outpatient follow-up care models.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Ph.D. or Psy.D. in Clinical or Counseling Psychology from an APA-accredited doctoral program. 
• Completion of an APA-accredited internship. 
• Licensed or license-eligible as a Clinical Psychologist in the Commonwealth of Virginia. 
• Experience in evaluation and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. 
• Training and experience in trauma-focused, evidence-based therapies (e.g., Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy). 
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills. 
• Ability to work effectively within a complex academic medical center environment. 
• Demonstrated ability to work in and foster an environment of respect, professionalism and civility with a population of faculty, staff, and students from all backgrounds and experiences, or a commitment to do so as a faculty member at VCU. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in infant mental health, early development, and caregiver–infant dyadic interventions. 
• Experience working in NICU or other medical settings with high-risk infants and families. 
• Experience providing maternal mental health services, including postpartum care. 
• Prior teaching and supervision experience with trainees. 
• Interest or experience in program development within hospital-based or academic settings. 

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The Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Pediatrics is dedicated to providing comprehensive, compassionate, state-of-the-art pediatric health care, research and education at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, a full-service children’s hospital within the VCU Medical Center. CHoR offers a robust continuum of pediatric services, research and education, and is the region’s only full-service children’s hospital. CHoR provides emergency, primary, secondary, advanced, tertiary and long-term care. CHoR has 11 locations across Central Virginia and provides more than 42 pediatric medical/surgical services.

There is energy and momentum around advancing children’s health in Richmond, and we have marked a new milestone. Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU recently opened a multi-story, high-tech ambulatory pavilion for pediatric services.  The new facility will meet the growing need for outpatient services for children in our community.

CHoR's outpatient pavilion is the largest, most advanced outpatient facility dedicated to children in the region. The new pavilion includes diagnostic and treatment services for children, bringing together the majority of outpatient pediatric services currently on the MCV campus to one location. It is designed to meet the unique health care needs of children, and to provide Richmond the most advanced and coordinated care possible:

The facility is a 640,000 square foot, multi-story building and includes a 7-story parking deck with more than 600 spaces.
The new pavilion houses 72 exam rooms arranged in clinic pods to optimize a multidisciplinary care model. Each pod includes 12 exam rooms, a treatment room, support space and a centralized clinical team.
The new pavilion features pediatric-dedicated imaging, surgical and endoscopy procedure rooms, as well as pediatric faculty offices.
The pavilion is designed with future expansion in mind. It can accommodate additional clinic pods and operating rooms, as demand for these services increases.

When we break ground on a new facility, it’s about more than bricks and mortar. It’s just like we tell our children— it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Over the past three years, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU has increased pediatric faculty to more than 130 clinicians focused on 42 specialty areas and providing access to children’s health care from more than 11 locations throughout the region. It’s these dedicated physicians and an extensive network of pediatric-trained nurses, child-life specialists, therapists, social workers and ancillary medical staff, who will continue providing health care designed especially for children.

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