By joining the San Diego Center for Children, you will empower children and families through transformative mental health care and educational services. Our vision is to inspire a world where children and families live joyful, healthy lives. We serve over 1,000 people every day - are you ready to make an impact?
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POSITION SUMMARY
The Supervising Psychologist at the San Diego Center for Children’s Family Wellness Center (FWC) provides clinical training and supervision for post-doctoral fellow. The role emphasizes training excellence, clinical rigor, and culturally responsive, trauma-informed care. This position ensures high-quality clinical and assessment services and contributes to the development of early-career professionals in a multidisciplinary behavioral health setting.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. (Other duties may be assigned)
• Provide direct supervision to assigned post-doctoral fellow, including a minimum of one hour of individual face-to-face supervision weekly.
• Participate in and facilitate didactic trainings and/or case review sessions as needed.
• Supervise psychological assessments conducted by post-doctoral fellow, including test selection, administration, scoring, interpretation, and report writing.
• Support SDCC in advocacy efforts with funders with the goal of expanding access to assessment services
• Review and approve clinical documentation in accordance with state licensing laws and organizational policies.
• Deliver formal written and verbal performance evaluations in alignment with training program requirements.
• Ensure the accuracy and timely completion of trainee billing documentation and support documentation quality assurance.
• Schedule supervision sessions and ensure services are provided on SDCC premises or through approved telehealth platforms.
• Collaborate with FWC leadership to ensure training is aligned with clinical needs and best practices.
• Communicate regularly with Program Director regarding trainee progress, supervision issues, and opportunities for system improvement.
• Comply with SDCC safety and security protocols, and notify leadership of any schedule changes with at least 24-hour notice.
• Maintain confidentiality and protect all client information per HIPAA and agency standards.
• May provide consultation to clinical staff and participate in special projects or additional duties as mutually agreed upon with program leadership.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret medical records, journals, reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information to management and public groups.
REASONING ABILITIES
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 lbs when necessary. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
DIVERSITY STATEMENT
The San Diego Center for Children is committed to:
- Actively recruiting, retaining, and supporting diverse staff at all levels of the organization,
- Ensuring that diverse perspectives are included in the development and implementation of policies, practices and services, and that individuals feel empowered to advance our mission within an atmosphere of trust, safety, and respect,
- Encourage and provide access to professional development to deliver equitable and culturally informed services to the population we serve.
