Psych Postdoctoral Fellow - Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences (Advanced Clinical Psychology)

Job Description Summary

The Advanced Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center is a time-limited, advanced training position within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences focused on the assessment and treatment of individuals with severe and complex psychiatric and co-occurring medical conditions. The fellowship provides supervised practitioner-scholar training designed to prepare fellows for independent clinical practice in an academic medical center through evidence-based assessment, psychotherapy, consultation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Job Duties

• Perform comprehensive assessments of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning.
• Conduct individual psychotherapy and behavioral health interventions for patients with a wide range of psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, addictions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and personality disorders.
• Provide clinical services for patients with co-occurring medical and neurological conditions, including but not limited to neurological, cardiac, and endocrine disorders.
• Address complex clinical presentations, including suicide risk, acute mental status changes, treatment noncompliance, and capacity evaluations.
• Participate in interdisciplinary care teams to support diagnosis, treatment planning, and ongoing patient management across medical and psychiatric settings.
• Deliver evidence-based interventions tailored to acute, chronic, and complex clinical populations within an academic medical center environment.