Job Summary:
Under supervision of the hospital’s Forensic Director, successful candidates will be responsible for the completion of criminal forensic evaluations and the treatment of criminal defendants.

Job Responsibilities & Performance Standards
• Conducts face-to-face forensic mental health evaluations to answer questions of competency to stand trial and/or criminal responsibility.
• Conducts forensic risk assessments and other psychological testing on individuals admitted to an inpatient forensic unit.
• Completes comprehensive annual reviews and develops opinions regarding the need for civil commitment.
• Provides expert witness testimony as a neutral friend to the court.
• Participation on the recovery planning (treatment) team including participation in the development of individualized recovery (treatment) plans.
• Facilitation of group treatment, psycho-educational interventions, and other individualized therapies.
• Creation and implementation of behavioral plans.
• Documentation of treatment progress.
• Clinical supervision of master’s level mental health counselors as well as doctoral trainees. GRHA trains practicum students, interns in our APA-accredited internship program, and postdoctoral trainees.
• Related work as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications
• One year of experience working as an inpatient psychologist.
• Completion of a predoctoral internship or postdoctoral fellowship, or both with a focus on the practice of criminal forensic psychology.
• Five years of post-licensure experience conducting competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility evaluations.
• Experience testifying in criminal forensic mental health matters on at least 10 occasions.
• Experience completing at least five violence risk assessments using the HCR-20 and PCL-R.
• Experience supervising psychology graduate students, predoctoral interns, postdoctoral fellows, or licensed psychologists.