Psychologist- Forensic

Job Description

Target starting pay: $137,916 annually

8AM-4:30PM, Mon-Fri. No part time or telehealth.

Meaningful career in forensics with room to grow, job stability, consultation opportunities, and a chance to work within a multidisciplinary team. If you are passionate about working with severely behavioral ill patients, we have a spot for you!

Opportunities performed on-site at this work location at least three days a week may be eligible for an additional 5% premium pay in addition to the advertised salary.

Hiring for two forensic programs under RCW 10.77 - Competency Restoration (Comp Rest) and Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI). Both programs are under review and evolving, so opportunity to affect systemic and programmatic improvements, challenges, and rewards.

Work with patients with complex, challenging, and diverse cases from a trauma-informed care approach. As a multidisciplinary team member, you will be a team lead and consultant, ensuring the team uses evidence-based treatment modalities and behavior management strategies.

Outside of typical work duties, there are opportunities to enhance professional development and leadership skills, teach various disciplines about psychological concepts, develop and inform policy and standards of practice, obtain free continuing education units, join committees, supervise students, and conduct research.

Duties may include:

Therapeutically engage with patients

Consulting with the team and other stakeholders regarding patient care, practices, and procedure

Support non-medical and medical clinical staff by providing psychoeducation and appropriate modeling leadership

Complete assessments of violence and suicidal risk

Implement evidence-based treatment practices

Conduct psychological testing

Provide court testimony (where applicable)

Complete required documentation according to professional, hospital, and CMS standards.

Professionals with a Doctoral degree in Psychology from an accredited school or department of psychology and preferably two years of doctoral experience working in an inpatient or forensic setting with a severely behavioral ill population. Individuals with formal training in evidence-based treatment modalities or forensic/psychological testing are preferred.

In-training positions are available, but you must be approved to take EPPP in WA state or have passed EPPP and applied for licensure in WA state.