Post-Doctoral Psychology Assistant

Are you interested in working in a fast-paced, challenging behavioral healthcare organization? Are you interested in a position that is rewarding and makes a difference in the lives of others? Do you like to be challenged and work in a setting that allows you to grow? Then Alvarado Parkway Institute wants to hear from you!

Alvarado Parkway Institute (API) is a free-standing psychiatric hospital in La Mesa, California with three Intensive Outpatient/Partial Hospitalization Programs. Alvarado Parkway Institute (API) provides comprehensive adult inpatient behavioral health and addictive disorders services in a 66-bed hospital setting located in La Mesa, California. At Alvarado Parkway Institute, we are committed to improving the mental health and well-being of our community. Alvarado Parkway Institute in La Mesa is San Diego County's leading provider of comprehensive mental health and substance abuse care. API offers a variety of Outpatient Services designed to assist patients in functioning at the highest level. API provides Partial Hospitalization services and Intensive Outpatient services. These programs emphasize symptom management, community integration, and prevention of hospitalization or re-hospitalization. Value-added services enhance the patient's treatment experience.

The role of the Post-Doctoral Psychology Assistant is to provide quality psychotherapeutic services to adult, addictive disordered patients and their families, spouses, significant others; to serve as a member of multi-disciplinary team supporting the organization's treatment program and philosophy and assure the deliverance of quality treatment to adult and AD patients and their families. To provide assistance to the Director of Psychology, Operations Manager and Clinical Supervisor including mentorship of interns/trainees, scheduling of groups, individual sessions, psychological testing, and various intervention and treatment plans.