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NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST -

UNM Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 87101

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Position Title NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST

Location: UNM Hospital

Compensation Sign-On Bonus Available

Relocation Assistance Available

Minimum Offer: $48.43/hr

Maximum Offer: $75.01/hr

Compensation Disclaimer: Compensation for this role is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, and other business and organizational considerations.

Department: Neuropsychology

Employment Type: Full Time

FTE: 1.00

Shift: Days

Position Summary Provide neuropsychological consultation and evaluations to include clinical interviewing, administering, scoring and interpreting test results, providing feedback and test report preparation. Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups.

Detailed Responsibilities

Provide neuropsychological consultation and evaluation to include clinical interviewing, administering, scoring and interpreting test results, providing feedback and test report preparation

Ensure psychological services are in accordance with quality standards, regulations and policy guidelines

Serve as a liaison for assigned area; coordinate activities in collaboration with other staff professionals, divisions, departments and organizations; may chair steering committees

Prepare and maintain a variety of reports; analyze and interpret reports as required; prepare, present and disseminate information to professional individuals, groups and organizations

Attend and participate in professional group meetings; stay abreast of new trends and innovations

Coordinate and conduct personnel training sessions as required; may supervise lower level staff

Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols

Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes

Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk

Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner

Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"

Qualifications Education

Doctorate Degree

Education specialization

APA accredited program in Psychology, Neuropsychology, Related

Experience Essential: Documented experience in age appropriate environment

Nonessential: No preferred experience

Credentials

Licensed Psychologist in State of New Mexico

CPR for Healthcare/BLS Provider or Professional Rescuers within 30 days

Physical Conditions Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Essential Working Conditions

No or minimum hazard, physical risk, office environment

Subject to credential failure obtain/maintain may result in termination

60 days written notice required to be eligible for rehire

Tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and additionally as required

Seniority level Entry level

Employment type Full-time

Job function Health Care Provider

Industries Hospitals and Health Care

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