Pediatric Neuropsychologist
Location: Charlotte, NC
Date Posted: 10/07/2025
Job Description
Status: Fulltime
Benefits Eligible: Yes Hours Per Week:40
Schedule
Details/Additional Information: Weekdays
Essential Functions
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills
necessary to provide care, or arrange for the provision of appropriate care,
for child, adolescent, adult, and older adult population of patients.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of
growth and development over the lifespan and possesses the
ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status.
• Interprets the appropriate information needed
to identify each patient's requirements and
ensures and
documents that age specific needs are being met.
• Performs neuropsychological evaluations,
appropriate to each patient, which focus primarily upon the organic aspects
of brain function, but which also consider other etiological factors, which may affect patient's
functional abilities.
• Obtains and evaluates relevant historical
information and incorporates this into the evaluation and treatment
planning.
• Maintains responsibility for test selection,
scoring, and interpretation and understands the
limitations of and
correctly applies the norms of each test used.
• Utilizes psychometrics for the administration
and scoring of tests as appropriate and ensures the accuracy of that
administration and scoring through the review and supervision of those team members.
• Prepares reports from the evaluation data.
• Provides psychotherapy, counseling education,
cognitive, retraining, behavior management
and/or crisis
intervention as needed to treat problem areas identified in the assessment
process.
• Develops appropriate treatment plans and
discusses these with the patient and/or appropriate others to ensure
they participate in the development of the plan and consent to treatments.
• Trains professional team members involved in
the care of the patient about appropriate
Observational
methods and behavior management techniques, and appropriate supportive roles in
the patient's
neuropsychological treatment.
• Provides clinical supervision for assigned
Master's Level Psychologist, Psychometrist, and
Master's or Doctoral
candidate students. roles in the patient's neuropsychological treatment.
Physical Requirements
Hearing (corrected) adequate for oral/ aural communication with patients, team members, family, visitors. Vision (corrected) adequate for reading. Intelligible speech and normal language/cognitive skills. Must be able to push patients in a wheelchair or stretchers. May lift and carry up to 20 pounds frequently and rarely 21-50 pounds. Sitting, standing, and walking required throughout the day. Job duties sometimes require climbing stairs, kneeling, twisting, bending. May have to transfer patients. Personal Protective Equipment such as gloves, goggles, gowns, and masks are sometimes required due to possible exposure to hazardous chemicals or blood and body fluids.
Education, Experience and Certifications
Ph.D. or Psy.D. degree in Clinical or Counseling Psychology including a fulltime 1 year pre-doctoral internship required. Completion of a full-time two year post-doctoral fellowship with training in neuropsychology required. Current valid license to practice psychology in the applicable state required.
Provides psychological services with a specialty in neuropsychology to clients. Works closely with other disciplines and specialties within the department and facility as well as with patients and families to assure a cohesive approach to patient care. • This position does not provide psychotherapy, counseling education, and/or behavior management.• This position primarily treats the pediatric neurology patient population, including provision of pre- and postsurgical evaluations and participation in multidisciplinary activities.• Supervision, teaching, and training of graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows are an integral part of this position.• Additional training and research opportunities available, if interested. • A faculty appointment commensurate with experience will be provided. • Experience must be consistent with Houston Guidelines for training in neuropsychology. Applicants must be ABBP-CN board-eligible. Board certification is strongly preferred.
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States,
created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of Clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well
as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation's largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more Than $6 billion in annual community benefits.
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