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Job Description Summary: MaineGeneral Health. We’re With You. Be With Us.

MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.

If you are looking for the opportunity to support your friends, family, and your community through your work at MaineGeneral Health...Come be with us.

Job Description:

The Role: Psychologist - Orthopedics, Per Diem

This position provides therapeutic evaluation and treatment of patients with psychological disorders. This role offers the unique opportunity to collaborate with our Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation teams to support patients in their return-to-sport journeys following surgery or injury. The Psychologist will help integrate performance-based treatment approaches designed to enhance motivation, manage psychological barriers to recovery, and optimize overall athletic performance. Ideal candidates will have experience or interest in sports psychology, performance coaching, or post-operative recovery support, and enjoy working as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on helping patients safely and confidently return to the activities they love.

The Work:

+ Assesses a patient's psychological status and provides appropriate interventions and treatments such as relapse prevention for addictive behaviors and coping skills for stress management

+ Collaborates with nursing and ancillary services to provide appropriate psychological therapy for patients. Refers patients to other disciplines for consult and evaluation as indicated

+ Provides psychological expertise and education to a multidisciplinary team of professionals. Acts as resource to other disciplines on patient problems related to depression, anxiety, stress and behavior modification

+ Develops and provides educational resources to the community that may include public speaking events, news releases and other forms of publications

Qualifications:

+ Maine state licensure as a Psychologist required; temporary or conditional licensure does not qualify

+ Prior experience providing evaluation & treatment in an outpatient setting preferred

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0

Work Shift:

Job Exempt: Yes

Benefits:

Supporting all aspects of our employees’ wellness – physical, emotional and financial – is a critical component of being a great place to work. With the wide range of benefits and programs available, employees have the resources they need to be well at every stage of life and plan for the future.

Physical Wellness:

We offer wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle.

Emotional Wellness:

When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household.

Financial Wellness:

+ An employee discount program is available to all employees for services provided by MaineGeneral Medical Center.

+ We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan.

Career Mobility:

Helping our employees develop their skills and grow their careers is critical to how we retain our talent and sustain our business. We do this by offering our teammates a variety of leadership-supported programs and learning and development resources for every stage of their professional development. We know that our employees are our most valuable resource – they’re how we grow our business and care for our community.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability Assistive technologies are available. Application assistance for those requesting reasonable accommodation to the career site is available by contacting HR at (207) 861-3440 .

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability: In furtherance of MaineGeneral's policy regarding Equal Employment Opportunity, MaineGeneral has developed a written Affirmative Action Program which sets forth the policies, practices and procedures that MaineGeneral is committed to in order to ensure that its policy of nondiscrimination and affirmative action is accomplished.

The Affirmative Action Plan for Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities is available for inspection by any employee or candidate for employment upon request, during normal business hours, in the Human Resources Department. Assistive technologies are available. Application assistance for those requesting reasonable accommodation to the career site is available by contacting HR at (207) 861-3440 . EEO is Law (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf)