Career Opportunities

We have 7 positions in 3 tracks available for this 1-year APA accredited fellowship, with a start date of August 1, 2025.

A. INTEGRATED CARE FAMILY (ICF) PSYCHOLOGY TRACK – 3 Clinical Postdoctoral Fellowship positions are available in our Integrated Care Family Psychology track: 1) Family Medicine/Geriatrics, 2) OB/GYN, and 3) Pediatrics concentration. These positions are available within the Division of Collaborative Care and Wellness. Our program is a one-year APA accredited program. Some trainees may wish to have additional training and dependent on faculty agreement and funding, remain for a second year.

1) Family Medicine/Geriatrics: This focus includes intensive clinical training in integrated care, primary care behavioral health, and medical family therapy. There are many opportunities for collaborative care with physicians and other health professionals, inter-professional education, family therapy training, teaching, and scholarship in urban primary care settings. Time is equally divided between two settings: an urban, primary care family medicine clinic and a community-based hospital (Highland Hospital) affiliated with URMC. The fellow provides behavioral health consultation and brief therapy to family medicine patients and families, many of whom are economically disadvantaged and/or from historically underserved populations. There is daily opportunity for collaboration and consultation with medical professionals, as the fellow serves a critical role in interdisciplinary team-based care. At Highland Hospital, the fellow serves as an educator to internal medicine residents and medical students, providing: one-to-one coaching focused on general communication skills and with focused attention to older adults facing life transitions (from Hospital to Rehab); group-based didactics focused on best practices in communication and wellness and management of ethical dilemmas; assessment, consultation, and brief treatment of depression and other mood disorders and cognitive decline in primary care settings.

2) OB/GYN: Specialized training in this area includes providing consultation, assessment, and treatment to obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) patients and their families. Close collaboration with a team of healthcare professionals, including medical professionals, social workers, and nutritionists, is an essential component of the role. The fellow provides individual, couples, and family therapy to a largely underserved population in a clinic that provides general OB/GYN, high-risk pregnancy, family planning, and chronic pelvic pain care, among other services. The fellow also provides brief psychoeducational consultation and supportive counseling for patients and couples attending a specialty care Fertility Clinic.

3) Pediatrics: Fellows can expect to receive specialized training in pediatric medical family therapy and family systems psychology. Fellows maintain a supervised clinical practice with specific training on pediatric and family psychology, integrated primary and specialty care, and family and broader systems. Coursework and professional seminars are dedicated to expanding knowledge and skills in specialty care psychology and medical family therapy principles. The clinical service at the academic health center (Strong Family Therapy Services) offers variety in clinical caseload and skill development, including couples and families who are coping with comorbid medical problems as well as those with relationship difficulties. The fellow provides therapy to children and their families, collaborates and consults with medical professionals as part of an interdisciplinary team, and works with multiple systems such as schools and community agencies. The fellow will have the opportunity to contribute to interprofessional education via traditional didactic teaching, as well as partnership with fellowship faculty working on ongoing scholarly projects, clinical quality improvement, and research in the areas of pediatric primary care and integrated healthcare.

All ICF Fellows are also uniquely trained in the URMC Physician Communication Coaching model, preparing them to serve as consultants to medical clinicians to enhance the patient-family-physician relationship.

Fellows participate in coursework and professional seminars dedicated to expanding knowledge base and skill development for primary care psychology and medical family therapy principles. The Department of Psychiatry’s Psychology Training Program is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion as core values in our program, with seminars supporting and extending trainee cultural competence and cultural humility.

Fellows may also have opportunities for supervised teaching and supervision and will partner with Fellowship faculty to complete a scholarly project, typically focused on program development and/or evaluation.

Our fellowship launches psychologists who are highly qualified for careers in patient care, teaching, and administration. Competitive candidates have interests and/or experience with chronic and acute illness, family therapy, and/or systems theory.

B. ADULT PSYCHOLOGY TRACK: ADULT ACUTE/INPATIENT PSYCHIATRY: One Postdoctoral Fellowship position is available in our Accredited Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program; Adult Psychology track with a concentration in: Adult Acute/Inpatient Psychiatry. The fellow on the Adult Psychology track will enhance the quality of care provided in Inpatient Psychiatry Services by assisting in the design, pilot, and evaluation of a new Intensive Therapy Program (ITP) across our Adult and Geriatric Inpatient Psychiatry Units, which aims to improve quality of care for patients admitted to our adult and/or geriatric inpatient psychiatry units by facilitating intensive treatment with the goals of crisis stabilization, reduced inpatient length of stay, and reduced readmissions to our Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) and Inpatient Units.

The fellow will provide direct clinical care on the Adult and Geriatric Inpatient Psychiatry Units, including those patients participating in the Intensive Therapy Pathway. The fellow will also work closely with several multi-disciplinary treatment teams consisting of psychologists, psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, social workers, nurses, recreation and creative arts therapists, and mental health therapists in a fast- paced environment. The role of the fellow will include 1) providing acute, intensive treatment to adults and families with the goal of crisis stabilization, and 2) program development and evaluation in acute services, as part of a mentored scholarly project.

The fellow may also have opportunities for supervised teaching and supervision of junior trainees and multi-disciplinary clinical staff. Our fellowship launches psychologists who are highly qualified for careers in patient care, teaching, and administration. Competitive candidates have interests and/or experience with acute inpatient care, interdisciplinary collaboration, and program development.

C. CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY TRACK

1. C&A OUTPATIENT CARE: Postdoctoral Fellowship positions are available within the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The successful candidates will provide supervised clinical care and conduct program development/research initiatives in our state-of-the-art outpatient settings, integrated pediatric subspecialty care settings, and our expanded school mental health program. In order to provide the best training experience, each fellowship is customized to the fellow’s identified, unique educational goals, including what types of patients they wish to see in outpatient settings and in which pediatric subspecialties they are trained. Fellows in this track participate in clinical research as members of the Innovation in Child Mental Health Care Delivery Lab.

Additional responsibilities for all fellows include participation in didactics and at least 2 hours of weekly individual supervision. Fellows also provide clinical supervision of junior trainees and multidisciplinary clinical staff. Fellowships are designed so that fellows can pursue careers in patient care, teaching, research, and administration. In addition, the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Division anticipates faculty opportunities for graduating fellows over the next 5 years.

Opportunities for advanced training are provided within:

(1) UR Medicine: Pediatric Behavioral Health & Wellness, a community-based mental health setting focused on evidence-based practices serving children from birth to 18 with a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, spoken languages, SES, gender identities/sexual orientations, and presenting mental and physical health concerns. UR is the largest regional provider of child behavioral healthcare.

(2) Pediatric Specialty Clinics at Golisano Children’s Hospital, including, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Hematology/Oncology, Nephrology and Neurology. Fellows provide consultation and direct patient care within these divisions and collaborate with multidisciplinary care teams.

(3) Expanded School Mental Health Program, including school-based patient care, school-based consultation, and K-12 educator training within surrounding school districts, including the Rochester City School District. Postdoctoral fellows will also have the opportunity to participate in one of several federally funded grants focused on expanding school and community capacity to support youth with behavioral health needs within the greater Finger Lakes region (www.ursos.org).

(4) Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, including consultation with teachers in early childhood care settings, consultation with caregivers in breast feeding and lactation medicine, training in, and provision of early childhood outpatient therapy including Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, RUBI parent management training, and Reflective Parenting.

2. C&A – ACUTE CARE offers a 1-year fellowship position with a focus on providing care to children and adolescents in the context of psychiatric crises. Fellows provide clinical care on the Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Unit, including the Rapid Stabilization Pathway – a 3-day, ACT focused intervention for teens admitted with suicide risk. The fellow will work closely with a multi-disciplinary team consisting of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and mental health therapists in a fast-paced environment. The role of the fellow will include 1) providing intensive treatment to children and families with the goal of crisis stabilization, and 2) program development and evaluation. Fellows will also be a part of the Pediatric Consultation/Liaison team, working as part of an interdisciplinary team to complete psychiatric consultation and provide short-term treatment for pediatric patients on the Golisano Children’s Hospital medical inpatient units. Consultation questions include evaluation of need for psychiatric hospitalization after suicide attempt, acute stress response after violence or trauma, adjustment to medical illness, assisting in the development of behavioral plans, and assessment and treatment of patients with eating or feeding disorders hospitalized for medical stabilization. Fellow’s responsibilities also include participation in didactics, a mentored scholarly project, and supervision of other trainees / mental health clinicians.

FOR ALL POSITIONS:

URMC is committed to building an inclusive culture where trainees and employees feel a sense of belonging, connection, and community within their workplace. Our program is committed to fostering an environment that allows for all to be their authentic selves. We are focused on attracting, supporting, and retaining diverse fellows who can help us deliver on our mission to provide culturally sensitive, person-centered care to individuals and families experiencing psychological distress or mental disorders across the lifespan.

Members of underrepresented groups, including people of color and those with disabilities, are encouraged to apply

Benefits include a beginning salary of $60,416, 4 weeks’ vacation, 9 paid holidays, 5 professional days, medical/dental plans, professional liability insurance, FSA, HAS, 403(b) plan, professional stipend allowance.

REQUIRED: Successful completion of an APA accredited doctorate and APA accredited internship program in clinical, counseling, or school psychology.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Applications preferred by December 15th but will be accepted on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.

Our program follows the APPIC guidelines and is accepting applications through APPACAS.