School/Child Psychologist or Neuropsychologist

The Morris Center in Ocala, Florida is hiring a part-time independent contractor (1099) for a FLORIDA licensed or licensed eligible clinical psychologist, school psychologist, or neuropsychologist (doctorate level psychologist is preferred).Applicants must be licensed to practice in the state of Florida; FL license eligible candidates should also apply.

If you thrive on the unique challenges of collaborating with Speech Language Pathologists (SLP's), Occupational Therapists (OT's), educators, and a published Neuropsychology Researcher with over 30 years of expertise assessing and treating Neurodevelopmental Disorders across the lifespan, and enjoy contributing to a team of dedicated professionals making significant and lasting functional changes in the lives of children, teenagers, and adults, we have the perfect opportunity for you to join our team. An employer/clinical environment that is solely focused on the quality of services provided and not billable hours and not limited by insurance reimbursements.

Ideal Candidate Must:

• Hold a PhD or PsyD and have successfully completed APA-approved doctoral training and pre-doctoral internship training; exceptional MA level FL Licensed School Psychologists will be considered too.
• Be licensed as a clinical psychologists or school psychologist (or be in the process of becoming licensed) in the state of Florida.

The ideal candidate is mainly experienced and skilled in providing services to children and adolescents (our primary patient age range) and college students, but can also collaborate with the TMC OCALA transdisciplinary team in assessing and treating patients who are young adults, adults and at times even an older adult (70+) will seek services from TMC OCALA to empower their learning, language, literacy, sensory motor or other cognitive skills and abilities too; to date TMC's oldest in person client was 74 years old, but the primary age range of TMC patients are ages 4 to 24 years old.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Outpatient Assessments: Conduct outpatient psychoeducational and/or neuropsychological assessments as part of a comprehensive transdisciplinary team assessment. Collaborate with the TMC team that includes SLPs, OTs, neuropsychologists, educators and other professionals.
• Solo Assessments: Provide solo outpatient psychoeducational or neuropsychological assessments.
• Team Collaboration: Manage and facilitate transdisciplinary team collaborations, ensuring effective communication and coordination among all team members, ie the one aspect of the psychologist's role is the communication, collaboration and effective "can do" work culture among all disciplines on the transdisciplinary team.
• Behavioral Management: Handle behavioral management of patients in a high-intensity treatment program (6 hours per day, 5 days per week, for 2 - 8 months) or in low-intensity outpatient services (1 hour per day of remedial services, Speech-Language services or Occupational Therapy services).
• Psychotherapy: Offer individual, supportive, growth mindset and/or trauma recovery psychotherapy to children, teenagers, and adults; note all patients with a history of chronic learning disabilities have experienced a degree of educational trauma due to failure to be provided the skills and abilities necessary for academic success.
• Parent Training: Provide parent behavior management training to support the overall treatment process and to include parents as part of the transdisciplinary team model within TMC's aim for continuity of care between home and clinical environments.
• Program Facilitation: Carry out other essential functions that facilitate the positive outcomes of a dynamic, evidence-based transdisciplinary assessment and treatment team and its programs.

Our Patients present with a variety of neurological and psychiatric conditions such as Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Aphantasia, Autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, Autism, concussion, behavioral disorders, medical/genetic disorders like Neurofibromatosis I, and traumatic brain injury; TMC clinics in whole are Neurodevelopmental Disorders assessment and empowering treatment centers.

For over 35 years, the thriving TMC clinics schedule patients 2, 4, 6, 8 or 10+ months of transdisciplinary team assessment and empowering treatment services; common gains for TMC patients are 1 to 2 standard deviations (ie 15 to 30 standard score points) of improvement in language, sensory, motor, attention/focus, memory, executive functions and academic skills.

The unique services of The Morris Center Clinic offer:

• Highly effective programs
• Proprietary Transdisciplinary team Assessment and Treatment services; 38 years of expertise in serving patients from around the globe, ie USA, Canada, South America, Malaysia, India, UK, Caribbean, Singapore, South Africa and other countries.
• The CEO/owner of the three TMC clinics is a co-author of NICHD & VA RR&D Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) that guide the evidence-based and research-based services offered at TMC clinics. These RCTs that uniquely empower TMC treatment services include 5 year RCTs on early intervention & remediation of Specific Learning Disorders, as well as neurorehabilitation and neuroimaging of Aphasia, Phonological Alexia and Phonological Agraphia.

Clinical and Corporate guidance of TMC clinics is provided by a Neuropsychology, Neurorehabilitation, Neuroimaging, Neurodevelopmental Disorders clinical researcher CEO with over 30 years of expertise working with The Morris Center clinics, Tim Conway, PhD: see LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timconwayphdthemorriscenter/ Coordination of clinical services across all TMC clinics is expertly guided by Dr. Robin Edge, CCC/SLP who also has over 30 years of expertise in clinical services to patients with Neurodevelopmental Disorders, academia as a full professor and research too.

The hourly rate is commensurate with years of experience, training, skills and abilities.

For more information about The Morris Center clinics see:

www.TheMorrisCenter.com

For patients' report of TMC clinics' evidence-based outcomes see:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvyvy5NOMwFr-Nk5gaz1ntA/videosFor access to the peer-reviewed RCT's and other empirical studies supporting the treatment programs at The Morris Center see:https://timconway.academia.edu/

Dr. Conway and colleagues have published 20+ years of randomized controlled trials and other empirical studies on early intervention and remediation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, as well as 20+ years of RCT's and empirical studies on neurorehabilitation of post-stroke aphasia, alexia and agraphia.

The Morris Center, Inc; The Morris Center Jacksonville, LLC

The Morris Center clinics are equal opportunity employers.

Medical Specialties:

* Neurology

* Pediatrics

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract

Pay: $45.00 - $55.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person