PCBH Fellowship Opportunity with Geisinger Health System
Job Summary:
This position contains two rotations. Forty percent of the fellows time is spent with the Adult Primary Care Behavioral Health Program (PCBH) at Geisinger Health System’s Mount Pleasant Clinic, and the other sixty percent is within the Cancer Center at Geisinger Wyoming Valley. This position is in Scranton PA area with Dr. Kylie Oleski and Dr. Ashley Perez serving as supervisors. The fellow will provide clinical care for patients under the supervision of attending psychologists. This position is full-time and all job responsibilities are completed on site in person. Geisinger Psychology services provide visits both in person and through telemedicine to best serve patient needs.
For any questions regarding adult psychology fellowships at Geisinger please contact the Adult Fellowship Coordinator, Dr. Kathryn Harple at kharple@geisinger.edu
Job Duties:
Summary of PCBH responsibilities:
- Primary care psychologists (and those in training) are viewed as valuable team members and are consulted on a variety of concerns including depression, anxiety, acute stress disorder, smoking cessation, weight loss, and treatment adherence for chronic diseases such as COPD, heart failure, and diabetes.
- Fellows will provide targeted, evidence-based care through warm hand offs and brief episodes of treatment. Fellows collaborate with attending physicians, residents, psychiatrists, advanced practitioners, medical case managers, nursing staff, and medical pharmacists routinely to deliver comprehensive, quality care to patients.
- The fellow will be at Mt. Pleasant clinic on Thursday and Fridays.
Summary of PsychoOncology responsibilities:
- Provide integrated behavioral health care to cancer patients and their families, coordinating with medical providers.
- Provide short-term outpatient psychotherapy, curbside consultations, and possibility of inpatient consultations.
- Participate in disease-site specific tumor board meetings
- Opportunity to collaborate with bone marrow transplant team and complete pre-transplant evaluations
- The fellow will be at the Cancer Clinic on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Responsibilities of all Geisinger Fellows:
- Responsibilities include assessment, treatment plan, and documentation of patient encounters
- Attendance at team huddles, provider meetings, and Medical Home meetings add additional interdisciplinary, team-based care opportunities.
- In addition to clinical experience, the fellow will attend regular seminars with other Geisinger psychology fellows on professional topics (e.g., preparation for the EPPP, vita preparation, interviewing skills, salary negotiation) and specific health psychology topics (e.g., chronic pain, endocrine disorders, CBT for insomnia, LGBTQ and diversity training).
- The fellow will also participate in two hours of individual supervision each week and will have ½ day of protected time for research and program development. Fellows may have the opportunity to work with the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, train medical residents or students, and/or supervise PCBH interns.
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https://www.appic.org/
Education:
PhD or PsyD in clinical or counseling psychology and completion of an APA-accredited internship with relevant experience required.
Salary and Benefits:
Geisinger salary and benefits are highly competitive, especially considering low to medium cost of living in our geographical area. Annual salary is $47,486.40 and benefits include professional liability insurance, 10 CE days, $3,000 for CE, 9 vacation days, 6 personal days, and 5 relocation days.
Geisinger Health System Adult Psychology Fellowship, Behavioral Pain Management Track
Job Summary:
This position is a psychology postdoctoral position (fellowship) with Geisinger Psychology’s Integrated Care team. This position is in Danville, PA with Dr. Laura Adams serving as Primary Supervisor. The fellow will provide clinical care for patients under the supervision of attending psychologists. This position is full-time, and all job responsibilities are completed on site in person. Geisinger Psychology services provide visits both in person and through telemedicine to best serve patient needs.
For any questions regarding adult psychology fellowships at Geisinger please contact the Adult Fellowship Coordinator, Dr. Kathryn Harple at kharple@geisinger.edu
Job Summary:
The focus of Geisinger’s postdoctoral fellowship is to develop the professional and leadership skills psychologists need in their many roles within an academic medical setting. Upon completion of this program, fellows are ready to hit the ground running in their first professional positions. Each fellow takes ownership of a clinical specialty area, in this case Behavioral Pain Management, which involves a combination of direct clinical care, representing Behavioral Medicine on a multispecialty team and at interdisciplinary meetings, and leading efforts in clinical research or program development. Additional clinical and professional activities may be tailored to individual fellows’ based on training needs and interests.
Job Duties:
In the Behavioral Pain Management Track, fellows will have the opportunity to engage in clinical work at all levels of pain management within the Geisinger system. Clinical pain management services include conducting initial assessments and evaluations, collaborating with patients to improve treatment readiness, adherence, and treatment planning/goals, providing evidence-based behavioral medicine treatment in individual and group formats, as well as leading psychoeducational lectures within various multidisciplinary clinics. Fellows also conduct evaluations on pre-surgical candidates within our own unique Destination Spine program and pain medicine for spinal cord stimulator implants.
In addition to clinical experience, the fellow will attend regular seminars with other Geisinger psychology fellows on professional topics (e.g., preparation for the EPPP, vita preparation, interviewing skills, salary negotiation) and specific health psychology topics (e.g., chronic pain, endocrine disorders, CBT for insomnia, LGBTQ and diversity training). The fellow will also participate in two hours of individual supervision each week and will have ½ day of protected time for research and program development. Fellows may have the opportunity to work with the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, train medical residents or students, and/or supervise PCBH interns.
For more details please visit:
https://www.appic.org/Postdocs/Universal-Psychology-Postdoctoral-Directory-UPPD/Detail/id/5233
Education:
PhD or PsyD in clinical or counseling psychology and completion of an APA-accredited internship with relevant experience required.
Salary and Benefits:
Geisinger salary and benefits are highly competitive, especially considering low to medium cost of living in our geographical area. Annual salary is $47,486.40 and benefits include professional liability insurance, 10 CE days, $3,000 for CE, 9 vacation days, 6 personal days, and 5 relocation days.
PCBH Fellowship Opportunity with Geisinger Health System
Job Summary:
This position is a psychology postdoctoral position (fellowship) with the Adult Primary Care Behavioral Health Program (PCBH) at Geisinger Health System. This position is in Danville, PA with Dr. Kathryn Harple serving as supervisor. The fellow will provide clinical care for patients under the supervision of attending psychologists. This position is full-time and all job responsibilities are completed on site in person. Geisinger Psychology services provide visits both in person and through telemedicine to best serve patient needs.
For any questions regarding adult psychology fellowships at Geisinger please contact the Adult Fellowship Coordinator, Dr. Kathryn Harple at kharple@geisinger.edu
Job Duties:
- This position includes rotations within two of Geisinger’s primary care clinics, one general internal medicine clinic and one family practice clinic.
- Primary care psychologists (and those in training) are viewed as valuable team members and are consulted on a variety of concerns including depression, anxiety, acute stress disorder, smoking cessation, weight loss, and treatment adherence for chronic diseases such as COPD, heart failure, and diabetes
- Fellows will provide targeted, evidence-based care through warm hand offs and brief episodes of treatment. Fellows collaborate with attending physicians, residents, psychiatrists, advanced practitioners, medical case managers, nursing staff, and medical pharmacists routinely to deliver comprehensive, quality care to patients.
- Responsibilities include assessment, treatment plan, and documentation of patient encounters
- Attendance at team huddles, provider meetings, and Medical Home meetings add additional interdisciplinary, team-based care opportunities.
- In addition to clinical experience, the fellow will attend regular seminars with other Geisinger psychology fellows on professional topics (e.g., preparation for the EPPP, vita preparation, interviewing skills, salary negotiation) and specific health psychology topics (e.g., chronic pain, endocrine disorders, CBT for insomnia, LGBTQ and diversity training).
- The fellow will also participate in two hours of individual supervision each week and will have ½ day of protected time for research and program development. Fellows may have the opportunity to work with the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, train medical residents or students, and/or supervise PCBH interns.
For more details please visit:
https://www.appic.org/Postdocs/Universal-Psychology-Postdoctoral-Directory-UPPD/Detail/id/4803
Education:
PhD or PsyD in clinical or counseling psychology and completion of an APA-accredited internship with relevant experience required.
Salary and Benefits:
Geisinger salary and benefits are highly competitive, especially considering low to medium cost of living in our geographical area. Annual salary is $47,486.40 and benefits include professional liability insurance, 10 CE days, $3,000 for CE, 9 vacation days, 6 personal days, and 5 relocation days.