The Department of Pediatrics, Section of Developmental Pediatrics and the Sie Center for Down Syndrome at the University of Colorado School of Medicine is seeking a full-time psychology faculty member. Developmental Pediatrics and the Sie Center are part of the Neuroscience Institute at Children's Hospital Colorado, which also includes Child Neurology and Neurosurgery. We have developed a close collaboration with many subspecialists within the hospital and work closely with Child Psychiatry, Genetics, Rehabilitation Medicine, and Special Care Clinic, Pulmonary, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, the Speech Language and Audiology Department, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy with ample collaborative opportunities.
This position will be at our Children's Hospital Colorado location at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora and/or Network of Care sites across the metropolitan. We provide multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary consultation, developmental assessments, and intervention individuals and their families with a wide array of developmental and behavioral concerns including Down syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disabilities. We fully embrace a neurodiversity perspective with an emphasis on skill building to maximize every individual’s full potential. We also serve a culturally and linguistically diverse population and support families in their preferred language and cultural values. This psychologist will provide evidence based clinical assessment, intervention, and consultation working with a team of experts in their respective fields in Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, and other neurogenetic conditions including intellectual disability, and developmental delays. In addition to clinical excellence, faculty is expected to demonstrate skills and experience in the field developmental disabilities and excellence in training as well as research or scholarship.
Key Responsibilities:
- Direct psychological consultations in the context of a multidisciplinary team, comprehensive evaluations, individual and group interventions related to Down syndrome and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
- Individual and multidisciplinary comprehensive assessment of developmental behavioral concerns.
- Faculty participates and contributes to the training of psychology externs, interns, and post-doctoral fellows as well as medical students, residents, and fellows. Training may include supervision and didactic presentations.
- Faculty contribute to program development including involvement in ongoing QI projects.
- Faculty is expected to demonstrate scholarly interest and activity. This may include clinical research, developing new treatments, literature reviews, and involvement in the development of training or clinical guidelines related to the field of developmental behavioral conditions.