Overview

Serve as a Clinical Psychologist in connection with the Educational Developmental and Intervention Services (EDIS) Program, located at Yokosuka, Japan.

Naval Hospital, Yokosuka is the largest U.S. military treatment facility on mainland Japan: a 47-bed core hospital in Yokosuka, near Tokyo. Branch health clinics are located in Sasebo, Iwakuni, Atsugi, Camp Fuji, and Yokohama in mainland Japan; Chinhae, Korea on the southern tip of South Korea; and, Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. USNH Yokosuka serves 33,000 beneficiaries throughout the western Pacific by caring for readiness. This is accomplished by enabling the Fleet through quality patient and family-centered healthcare delivered by empowered people using efficient business practices.​

Responsibilities

Duties

• Execute a full range of clinical psychological diagnostic, strategies, procedures, consultation and treatment services to eligible children from birth to twenty-one years for the Educational and Developmental Intervention Services (EDIS).
• Assist as a consultant and authoritative resource expert to the EDIS interdisciplinary evaluation team.
• Provide consultation to medical, clinical providers and school personnel on complex pediatric Behavioral health cases.
• Carry out psychological assessments of children referred from the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) case study committee.
• Determine appropriate psychological tests and clinical interviews to evaluate and diagnose severe, chronic childhood psychological disorders.
• Perform diagnostic interviews, integrates interview information with psycho-diagnostic test data to establish and fortify psychological diagnoses in accordance with criteria set down in the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

Qualifications

US Citizenship required

Must have practiced as a licensed independent practioner within the past two years

Doctoral Degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) directly related to full professional work in clinical psychology.

A current, active, valid, and unrestricted clinical license to practice Psychology independently from a U.S. State, the District of Columbia, Commonwealth, territory, or jurisdiction is required.

Candidates will have completed an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited doctoral graduate program and an APA accredited predoctoral internship.