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CORRECTIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST - CERMAK
Cook County Health & Hospitals System
CORRECTIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST - CERMAK Job Number: 00122650 Job Posting: Feb 7, 2019, 5:18:37 PM Closing Date: Mar 10, 2019, 5:59:00 AM Full-time Shift Start Time: 8:00 A.M. Shift End Time: 4:00 P.M. Collective Bargaining Unit: SEIU Local 73 Drs Council Local 20 Posting Salary: COMPETITIVE Organization: Health and Hospital Systems
LOCATION: Cermak Health Services, 2800 S California Ave, Chicago, IL 60608 / Mental Health SHIFT: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Applicants may apply for this position online or submit a resume/ CV to the following email address: CermakRecruit@cookcountyhhs.org . When submitting a resume/CV by email, you must include the job title and posting number in the subject line of your email. An application or resume/CV must be filed for each position which interests you.
To receive Veteran Preference, appropriate discharge papers must be attached to the online application or must be included with your emailed resume/CV. Please refer to Veteran Preference document requirements listed on the bottom of this posting. JOB SUMMARY UNION - SEIU LOCAL 20 DOCTORS COUNCIL The Correctional Psychologist works under the supervision of the Chief Psychologist and the Director of Mental Health, Cermak Health Services of Cook County Health & Hospitals System (CCHHS), with clinical patient management by the responsible Unit Psychiatrist and Chief of Psychiatry. Participates in and oversees the orderly management, operation, and delivery of a comprehensive continuum of mental health services in the acute, residential care, and/or outpatient unit as well as the receiving and emergency/urgent care areas. This includes the behavioral health delivery system to identify and manage all mental health recipient detainees admitted to the Cook County Department of Corrections (CCDOC) and/or housed in those divisions/units.
The mission of these specific mental health receiving, treatment, and housing units is to provide for the safe and human identification and management of detainees with serious or other mental illnesses within the Cook County Department of Corrections environment. These mental health areas entail intensive and structured mental health program services using a multi-disciplinary Unit Team approach, which incorporates all level of clinical, medical , nursing, and custody staff. The Treatment Team include the assigned psychologist, psychiatrist, licensed social worker/licensed professional counselor, unlicensed mental health specialist, expression therapist and reentry social worker, relevant nurse, and primary care physician as well as the CCDOC custody personnel, respective Corrections Rehabilitation Worker (CRW) and other Sheriff's Department personal as appropriate.
The unit and program goals, to be enacted by the Unit Director: providing screening, assessment and diagnostic systems, and a therapeutic housing environment for mentally ill pretrial and sentenced detainees. To facilitate institutional adjustment and development of the detainees coping skills and attaining a level of functioning sufficient for return to a general population or community setting, in preparation for post-release linkage programming.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Preferred Qualifications
Must successfully meet the credentialing standards established by the Cook County Health System to include a State of Illinois MD license and any other license, certification, or specialized training, etc. no later than two (2) weeks prior to the candidate's start date.
VETERAN PREFERENCE PLEASE READ
When applying for employment with the Cook County Health & Hospitals System, preference is given to honorably discharged Veterans who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States for not less than 6 months of continuous service:
To take advantage of this preference a Veteran must :
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