Clinical Psychologist - Health Psychologist - Neuropsychologist

Benefis Health System is recruiting for several Clinical Psychologists to join our Behavioral Health team within our large regional medical system in Great Falls, Montana.

Our Behavioral Health programs offer a spectrum of care including outpatient, intensive outpatient programming, partial hospitalization, and acute psychiatric inpatient care, provided by a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, social workers, and counselors. We are proud to serve the north central Montana area and work closely with primary care and other specialties in the inpatient and outpatient settings and have a variety of options to help you achieve joy in your practice.

Positions to provide psychological services in the following areas are available: All Clinical Psychologist positions are typically full-time, Monday-Friday, with flexible start/end times. No evenings, weekends, or call. The ideal candidate has comprehensive skills in behavior management including clinical assessment, brief screening, targeted interventions, and group therapy, as well as interest in taking an active role in the education of trainees. There is also the opportunity for academic appointments at Idaho College of Medicine and Touro University in their Departments of Psychiatry.

Outpatient Psychology: Patients in outpatient behavioral health service including individual therapy and psychological evaluations. Referrals come from across the system and the community for a wide range of psychiatric presenting problems.  If interests align, there is also opportunity to provide group therapy and family/couples therapy.

Outpatient Neuropsychology: Patients in outpatient behavioral health service requiring neuropsychology services including neuropsychological evaluations for adults, assessment feedback and education to patients/families, and consultation with referral sources regarding findings and recommendations. Option of also carrying a small therapy caseload, if interested. Psychometrist support for neuropsychological testing is available.

Health Psychology: Patients in various medical departments, where the focus will be on coping with chronic disease or diagnosis, managing difficult health conditions and provision of support after surgery. This position would include program development to build an integrated model of care. Previous PCMH (primary care behavioral health) experience is preferred.

Integrated Psychology: This position would include program development to build an integrated model of care within various departments throughout the health system based on desires. Previous PCMH (primary care behavioral health) experience / program development is strongly preferred.

Program Coordinator: a clinical leadership opportunity overseeing the content/structure of our intensive outpatient program (IOP) and partial hospitalization program (PHP) for adults with mental health and/or substance use disorder diagnoses. Collaborate with the attending psychiatrists to ensure appropriate level of care placement in the outpatient setting. Work closely with counselors to ensure fidelity to the treatment model. Run programming groups and provide individual therapy for patients in programming. Perform psychological evaluations on the acute inpatient psychiatry unit, when needed. Option to see longer-term therapy patients in the outpatient setting and/or complete outpatient psychological evaluations, if interested.

Qualifications: Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. or PsyD. in Psychology including an APA approved clinical psychology internship and one or two year post-doctoral fellowship (informal or formal). Candidates must hold a Montana psychology license or be eligible for MT licensure. Candidates at all levels of experience are encouraged to apply.

Why we stand out

• Stand alone, financially stable, not-for-profit health system
• Regional tertiary center with robust specialty support including neurosurgery, pulmonology, neurology, endocrinology, rheumatology, advanced gastroenterology, cardiothoracic, and more!
• Patient focused, quality community and regional medical care

How we support you

• Competitive salaries and fair production with additional incentive bonus structures
• Generous sign-on / relocation bonus
• Annual $5,000 CME + $1,000 license/dues
• 8 weeks paid time off (6 PTO, 2 CME)
• 5-7% retirement match + 457b program
• Provider wellness programs focused on personal and professional development
• Monthly meetings with highest-level physician and administrative leadership to bring ideas forward and solve issues

Community Information: Great Falls is known as Montanas base camp for art and adventure with a city population of 70,000, and a draw of over 275,000 people in north central Montana. We have four genuine seasons, experience mild winters and enjoy blue skies over 300 days per year. Great Falls is a wonderful and safe place to raise a family, with nationally ranked public schools, two accredited colleges, and a new not-for-profit medical school, TouroCOM Montana, opening Summer 2023. Additionally, the Missouri River, a blue-ribbon fly-fishing destination, runs through the middle of our community with over 60 miles of paved recreational trails. Our local outdoor activities include camping, hiking, horseback riding, water and snow skiing, rock and ice climbing, boating, paddle boarding, kayaking, off-road motor sports, and hunting making our quality of life unrivaled in the Rocky Mountain West. Additionally, in 2023, Montana was named #1 state in the nation to practice medicine by WalletHub and in 2020, Great Falls ranked #10 for best cities to practice in after the pandemic by Business Insider.

Benefis Health System is one of Montanas largest tertiary centers holding a level II Trauma designation.  We are proud to be a standalone, financially stable community health system with strong, dedicated leadership focused on providing the best patient care in Montana, in addition to being awarded Beckers Best Places To Work in Healthcare 6 years in a row.  Benefis covers of the states land mass, an area comparable in size to Kansas and can provide care for everything except for burns and organ transplants. We offer great specialty support including 4 neurosurgeons, a cardiothoracic and vascular program, a regional cancer institute and a brand-new emergency department with a dedicated air ambulance program, including fixed and rotor wing. 

To learn more contact us today!