Posting Identification Number 41283

Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Psychologist II for the Mabley Developmental Center located in Dixon, Illinois to independently provide intensive psychotherapy and in-depth counseling to individuals. Develops and executes treatment plans. Documents treatment.  Provides professional psychological services such as counseling individuals, via individual and group therapy sessions employing standard psychotherapeutic techniques including supporting behavioral therapies. Helps individuals to develop an understanding of their impairments and gain behavioral control of their actions.  Serves as member of the Interdisciplinary Team.   Utilizes manual communication in the performance of duties involving direct contact with staff and individuals at the Center and their families.

 Essential Functions

• Independently provides intensive psychotherapy and in-depth counseling to individuals living at the Mabley Developmental Center.
• Serves as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Provides in-service training to direct care staff relative to behavior intervention programs and psychological-based documents, e.g., the Information for Client and Agency Planning (ICAP), Aggression Management Training (AMT) series, etc.
• Participates as member of various facility committees.
• Utilizes manual communication with individuals, who require such, provides therapy on a one-to-one or group basis utilizing psychological principles and techniques, including coping skills techniques.
• Completes psychological assessments upon an individual’s admission and every 5-years thereafter unless more frequent assessments are clinically indicated.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to a doctoral degree in psychology from a recognized college or university supplemented by one year of professional experience in psychology. For candidates not possessing these qualifications, a master’s degree in psychology from a recognized college or university is a minimum requirement. If the minimum educational requirement is met, four years’ qualifying professional psychology experience may be substituted for the doctoral degree in psychology and one years’ experience.
• Requires ability to communicate utilizing Manual Communication at a novice skill level.
• This class is included as an Upward Mobility Program credential title.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires ability to access various work sites throughout the Center to attend meetings and confer with individuals and other professional staff.
• Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to individual or others.
• Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends, and holidays.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
• The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.