Position Summary:

William James College is currently seeking a part-time (24 hours per week) licensed Clinical Psychologist to join our Forensic Services/Juvenile Court Clinic team in Norfolk County. William James College is a non-profit graduate school of professional psychology educating clinicians and providing services to children, adults, families and communities in Massachusetts since the 1970s.  These Juvenile Court Clinics provide court-ordered evaluations in Care and Protection, Child Requiring Assistance (CRA), Delinquency and Youthful Offender cases, and emergency and civil commitment proceedings for psychiatric hospitalization or substance abuse commitment proceedings.  

Duties Include:

• Perform court-ordered evaluations for the Massachusetts Juvenile Courts in juvenile delinquency and Youthful Offender cases, and status matters (Child Requiring Assistance), child abuse and neglect cases (Care and Protection), emergency civil commitments and other emergency evaluations according to practice guidelines established by the Division of Forensic Mental Health of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH). The Juvenile Court Clinics are operated as a collaboration between the Administrative Office of the Juvenile Court and DMH.
• Conduct psychological and diagnostic screenings and assessments of youth and families involved with the Juvenile Court and referred by the Juvenile Court.
• Provide reports and, as needed, testimony to the Juvenile Court
• Consult with judges, probation officers, and (as appropriate) others regarding court-involved youth and families.
• Provide consultation and training as may be requested by the Juvenile Court to judges, probation officers, other court personnel and others (e.g. community behavioral health providers, attorneys)
• Provide evidence-based short-term therapeutic services and psychoeducational services to individuals and/or in groups as needed
• Supervise work-study students, trainees, and interns when appropriate
• Provide referrals to court-involved youth and their families for behavioral health services in their communities, and other supports or services as needed.
• Other duties as assigned by Program Director

Please submit resume and cover letter to Michelle Costa, Human Resources Coordinator at hr@williamjames.edu

William James College is an institution and a community committed to the principles of excellence, fairness and respect for all people. Our Inclusive Excellence model infuses diversity, equity and inclusion efforts into the core of institutional functioning to realize the educational benefits of diversity both locally and globally. We are committed to strengthening communities, including our workplace, by fostering the development of the intercultural competencies necessary for change agents in an increasingly complex, pluralistic society.