Summary: The Learning and Development Center is one of several programs that comprise the rapidly expanding Clinical Program of Child Mind Institute. The Center offers thorough and thoughtful neuropsychological and academic evaluations as well as ongoing remediation and interventions, school consultation and user-friendly reports. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of our multidisciplinary group practice. The Neuropsychologist is responsible for providing comprehensive neuropsychological and academic evaluations for children, adolescents, and young adults with a variety of concerns. Typical presentations include individuals with language or learning disorders, ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, and other conditions that interfere with school functioning including intellectual disabilities, emotional disorders, and nonverbal learning weaknesses. Our group provides early childhood evaluations that partner a speech and language evaluation with a cognitive/developmental assessment for children ages 1-5. We also see many school age and high school students in public, independent and specialized school settings. We also often see young adults who are transitioning to college or vocational settings. Remediation services in our center include reading and writing remediation, organizational skills work, and more generalized cognitive remediation. Additionally, our group often provides public workshops, written content for the childmind.org website and school consultation regarding accommodations and interventions for our students. Reporting to the Senior Director, Learning and Development Center, this is an exempt, full-time position located in our NYC headquarters.
The Child Mind Institute is proud to be named a Great Place to Work-Certified company! Our competitive compensation and benefits include medical insurance, 401(k), paid parental leave, dependent care, and flexible work schedules, paid parental leave, dependent care and discounted tickets and entertainment perks programs. For more information about our benefits, please visit our employee benefits website.
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Responsibilities: - Exceptional clinical skills in neuropsychological assessment of children and adolescents
- Prior experience in providing cognitive remediation or school consultation for children with LD, ADHD, or other behavior problems
- Demonstrated expertise in psychological evaluations (including the use of personality measures and projectives), autism evaluations (including the use of the ADOS-2 and ADI-R), early childhood developmental evaluations, and evaluations with ID/DD populations
- Demonstrated experience in working clinically with complex comorbid presentations including mood, anxiety, personality, and other psychiatric disorders
- Prior experience supervising and training post-doctoral neuropsychology trainees
- Demonstrated experience with professional writing as well as with public speaking
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of individuals/groups,
- Motivated self-starter with great attitude, flexibility, and enterprising spirit
- Ability to work under pressure to prioritize and manage workload, manage simultaneous tasks and meet deadlines within a fast-paced and changing environment
- Strong teamwork ethic; positive, flexible attitude; ability to take complete ownership of responsibilities.
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Special Considerations:
Please upload your CV during the application process. The Child Mind Institute is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment based on race, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sex stereotype, gender identity/gender expression/transgender (including whether or not you are transitioning or have transitioned) and sexual orientation; national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver's license issued to persons unable to prove their presence in the United States is authorized under federal law [Vehicle Code section 12801.9]); ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information/characteristics, marital status/registered domestic partner status, age (40 and over), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law or ordinance or regulation. |
