Careers at La Rabida Children's Hospital

Child and Family Therapist / Psychologist 

La Rabida Children’s Hospital is hiring a full-time Child and Family Therapist / Psychologist for the Behavioral Health department in Chicago, IL.  

At La Rabida Children’s Hospital, our mission is simple: we’re dedicated to maintaining and improving the quality of life for each of our patients with complex conditions, disabilities, and chronic illness. The path to completing this mission, however, is often complicated.  Fortunately, we’ve got the best team around.  If you are looking for your next career opportunity to partner with a compassionate multidisciplinary collaborative team, we have the job for you!

Job Summary:  

The Child and Family Therapist / Psychologist functions in an independent and professional manner to provide high-quality, trauma informed behavioral health services to outpatient clients and their families.

Essential Child & Family Therapist / Psychologist Functions: 

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Provides short term and long term evidence based behavioral health services to patients and their families, including individual, family and group therapy
• Provides behavioral health consultation services in clinics within an integrated health model a minimum of 8 hours per week
• Provides care for patients with presenting symptoms such as behavioral problems, trauma exposure and symptomology, school and learning problems, attention problems, anxiety, depression, as well as others.
• Has training in and can implement behavioral health interventions such as individual psychotherapy, behavior modification techniques, trauma therapy, family therapy, group therapy and crisis intervention. Expectations are 45% of time is in therapy with a minimum of 20 patients (short term/long term) scheduled per week.
• Conducts clinical intake assessments and appropriate diagnosis. Issues and scores scales and measures to evaluated functioning and for diagnostic clarification.
• Provides cases management and advocacy
• Consults and collaborates with the multidisciplinary health care team to ensure services are integrated into patient’s treatment.

Additional Functions:

• Performs other duties as assigned
• May be involved in education and training programs for other students and staff members, both inside and outside of the Division of Behavioral Health.
• Conducts in-service training and educational seminars for hospital staff, parents and/or community agencies as required.
• Provides supervision to interns, externs and post-doctoral fellows (when licensed in Illinois).
• Plays an active role in the recruitment of trainees (interns, externs and post-doctoral fellows).
• Serves as a member of the Pediatric Psychology training committee.
• Documents sessions and clinical activities within 24 hours of contact
• Attends department meetings and presents cases for review
• Collaborates with internal and external providers to promote comprehensive care
• Works with diverse client base
• Interfaces and collaborates with hospital multidisciplinary team

What you will receive:  

• Competitive Salary
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Pet Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Retirement Savings Plan & Matching
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off
• Free Parking
• Free Lunch every last Friday of the month

Who we are:  

La Rabida is a place unlike any other. We understand the needs of families with children dealing with the most serious or complicated of conditions. With teams of the best healthcare providers in Chicago, we give continuous, comprehensive care, education and support, helping families face their unique obstacles head on. 

La Rabida Children’s Hospital is very proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.  

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