Hospital Psychologist – Clinical Faculty
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Rush University System for Health (Rush) is a nationally recognized academic health system based in Chicago, Illinois. Its mission is to improve the health of individuals and diverse communities by integrating outstanding patient care, education, research, and community partnerships.
Rush encompasses several entities, including Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, Rush Copley Medical Center, and Rush Oak Park Hospital, along with numerous regional outpatient care facilities. Rush University, with over 2,500 students, is a health sciences university comprising Rush Medical College, the College of Nursing, and the College of Health Sciences. Rush University Medical Center serves as the teaching hospital for Rush Medical and Nursing Colleges.
Rush is an elite medical community consistently recognized for excellence in patient care, medical discovery, and clinical expertise. Notable distinctions include:
• Being on U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals Honor Roll for 2024-2025, placing it among the top 50 of over 5,000 hospitals evaluated.
• Eleven Rush programs recognized among the nation’s best, with top ten national rankings for neurology and neurosurgery, and orthopedics.
• Receiving Vizient’s Quality Leadership Award, ranking second among 99 academic medical centers nationwide.
• All three Rush hospitals have earned the LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader designation in the Healthcare Equality Index.
• Named one of the nation’s “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” for six consecutive years.
Rush is deeply committed to fostering and sustaining a climate and culture where all staff, faculty, patients, and students thrive. The institution is passionate about health equity, particularly for the underserved communities on Chicago’s South and West Sides. As the largest employer on Chicago’s West Side, Rush actively works to address health disparities (e.g., a 16-year life expectancy gap) through its Anchor Mission strategy, which involves hiring, investing, buying, sourcing, and volunteering locally. Since 2018, Rush has invested over $6 million on the West Side, with this commitment continuing to grow. Rush is an equal opportunity employer, evaluating qualified applicants without regard to various legally protected characteristics.
Job Description: Hospital Psychologist – Clinical Faculty
This is a full-time Hospital Psychologist position with a Clinical Faculty appointment within the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. The work schedule is 8 hours.
The successful candidate will join the faculty of Rush Medical College.
Work Environment and Location:
• The position will divide time between Rush University Medical Center and the newly established Rush Specialty Hospital, a 100-bed facility on the Rush University Medical Center campus.
• Rush Specialty Hospital features 44 critical illness recovery beds and 56 inpatient rehabilitation beds, outfitted with the latest technology.
• This role is part of the Division of Hospital Psychology, specifically within the Section of Rehabilitation Psychology.
• The division provides psychological services to patients and families across various units, including critical care, acute care, acute rehabilitation, and critical illness recovery units.
• The Section of Rehabilitation Psychology encompasses multiple service lines: Consultation/Liaison Psychology (for critical care and acute care), Rehabilitation Psychology (for acute rehabilitation and critical illness recovery), and a small outpatient clinic for recently discharged patients.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Primarily responsible for meeting the needs of acute rehabilitation patients.
• Working closely with clinical services across the hospital to care for patients with new disabilities, new medical diagnoses, and other rehabilitation psychology and critical care psychology needs.
• Providing leadership and program development services to system-wide mental health expansion efforts, in collaboration with other mental health providers.
• The position is primarily focused on servicing inpatient units.
• Opportunities exist for the successful candidate to take on a small number of post-discharge clinic patients if interested.
Academic and Supervisory Duties:
• As a Clinical Faculty member, responsibilities include supervision and teaching postdoctoral fellows, residents, medical students, and other trainees.
• Specifically, the role involves supervising postdoctoral fellows in the Rehabilitation Psychology Fellowship program and residents in the Health Psychology internship track.
• Opportunities for research, mentorship, and other activities within Rush’s academic community may be available, depending on the candidate’s background and experience.
Required Qualifications:
• Must be board certified or eligible in Rehabilitation Psychology.
• Possess a strong clinical background with experience managing a broad range of mental disorders.
Compensation and Benefits:
• Offers a competitive salary and benefits package, with an academic rank commensurate with experience.
• The pay range for this full-time (1.0 FTE) position is $114,000 – $147,000. This range reflects factors such as knowledge, skills, experience, education, certifications, and primary work location, and includes any applicable incentive payments.
• Opportunities for increased compensation based on exceeding productivity targets are available.
• Additional compensation may include sign-on and retention bonuses, and relocation allowances.
• Rush offers a comprehensive benefits package, details of which can be found on their employee benefits page.
