Job Description

The Neuropsychologist I evaluates and treats patients in accordance with the reason for referral by the referring physician. Provides assessment and psychotherapeutic support to the patient and caregiver(s) as well as consultation with the Rehabilitation team. Assists in the continuous quality improvement process, program development, administrative duties as assigned, and coordination of any student/intern/fellowship program. Assists in divisional growth to ensure a high quality of care. Provides patient care consistent with Scope of Practice Standards, Standards for Psychological Testing, the American Psychological Association Ethical Principles, the Plan for Provision of Care to Patients, the Plan for Corporate Compliance, the Performance Improvement Plan, and the Patient Education Plan. Provides care while maintaining a safe environment, utilizing appropriate communication with sensitivity and attention to special populations, including patients with diverse cultural backgrounds, age, developmental issues and physical disabilities.

Principal Responsibilities:

Performs evaluations/consultations appropriate to establish protocols which reflect best practice standards (i.e., evidence-based medicine). Ensures there is a written prescription/order for all initial and subsequent evaluations. Develops a comprehensive plan of care that is supported by evaluation findings and prognosticate patient outcomes/progress integrating all relevant factors. Utilizes validated and standardized outcomes measures and provides an efficient evaluation, establishes goals that will demonstrate progress and patient rehabilitation progress (unless evaluation only).
 

Utilizes clinical skill and expertise in a specific population and/or specialty area to provide clinical care through tangible application of evidence-based techniques consistently with clinically significant improvements. Utilizes treatment intervention and strategies within the scope of practice and supported by established plan of care and integration of evidence-based practice to maximize patient outcomes tailored to specific patient populations.
 

Obtains consent and assent of treatment.
 

Identifies safety concerns regarding patient population and institutes appropriate measures to provide a safe environment, including protection of self and others. Reviews identified risks and benefits of therapy and obtains consent from patient and/or caregiver.
 

Patient care documentation is complete, concise, timely, legible, and includes patient in process including functional and measurable short and long-term goals (as appropriate); identifies and facilitates patient discharge needs including documentation, communication with care team, and recommendation for follow-up services.
 

Provides individualized, patient-centered care with respect to personal, cultural, spiritual beliefs and preferences; age-related cognitive and psychosocial needs; social support needs; gender, sexual orientation, and economic background.
 

Contributes ideas and suggestions to continuously improve processes, procedures, methods and productivity, and utilizes quality principles for continuous performance improvement.
 

Independently maintains an up-to-date Clinical Ladder Portfolio, including self-assessment and creation of personal, professional goals, to be reviewed with leadership on at least a semi-annual basis; Serves as a mentor for other clinicians in the portfolio process.
 

Participates and leads activities that promote professional identity within the clinical environment, the Cedars-Sinai environment and the community at large.
 

Participates in professional development through clinical education, formal mentoring programs, further development of clinical and professional competencies, involvement in research and scholarly work.
 

Effectively serves as a clinical instructor/mentor in accordance with specific discipline, regulatory and professional context. Reviews and co-signs documentation as required. Provides supervision according to discipline specific practice acts/requirements.
 

Serves as clinical educator or mentor for at least 1 predoctoral trainee and/or 1 full-time students/residents/fellows/staff or peer for at least 6 months of the year.
 

Participation in academic teaching, research or as a continuing education instructor.
 

Leads and facilitates at least 2 in-services and attends minimum of 8 hours of educational opportunities.
 

Participates in continuous learning and professional development and documents evidence

Qualifications

Education:

Doctorate Degree, Doctorate degree (PhD, EdD, or PsyD) in Psychology from an educational
institution and have completed at least 1 year of pre-doctoral internship.
Training program endorsed by the American Psychological Association. - Required

Fellowship of appropriate training and demonstrated competency to practice within designated specialty. Required

 

Work Experience:

Must have completed clinical specialty training as a practicing psychologist, status-post fellowship. Experience and strong knowledge of assessment and intervention techniques in a medical setting.

Able to obtain CSMC Clinical Psychologist privileges (as delineated within the "Privilege Delineation Description and Standards"). Required

Licenses and Certifications:
 

Licensed Doctor of Psychology California State License. Required
 

Basic Life Support (BLS). Required 
 

Board Certification in Clinical Neuropsychology American Board of Professional Psychology - Clinical Neuropsychology (Preferred)

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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