Clinical Assistant / Clinical Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology

The Department of Psychological Science, which has one of the most popular undergraduate majors on campus, offers a BS degree and MA degrees in general and industrial/organizational psychology. The department is also the administrative home for the Health Psychology PhD program and provides substantial support to the Organizational Science PhD program. The Department also houses the Biobehavioral Core Lab, a shared research facility for the collection, processing, and analysis of biological specimens. Department faculty and students collaborate with scholars across the university, including the College of Health and Human Services, the Belk College of Business, and the Cato College of Education. The interdisciplinary Health Psychology Program (http://healthpsych.uncc.edu) includes faculty from the departments of Psychological Science, Public Health, Communication Studies, Nursing, Applied Physiology, Health, & Clinical Sciences, and other relevant disciplines. It comprises three concentrations: an APA-accredited Clinical Psychology program that adheres to the scientist-practitioner training model, a Community Psychology program, and a Behavioral Science program.

Psychological Science houses the Behavioral Health and Resiliency Psychology Clinic, also called the "BeHealthieR Clinic," a low-cost mental health outpatient clinic. It is staffed by seven tenure-track faculty who are licensed psychologists and approximately 25 PhD students. The clinic's purpose is to: 1) provide quality psychological services at an affordable cost to increase access to mental health care, and 2) serve as a training facility for doctoral clinical students in the Health Psychology Ph.D. program (which includes our clinical psychology training program). We currently offer services (including assessment, individual, couples, and group therapy) only to members of the UNC Charlotte community. In the future, we plan to expand our services to the broader Charlotte area, and the person filling this position would play a major role in fulfilling this vision.

As the largest and most academically diverse college at UNC Charlotte, the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences houses 15 departments, 18 interdisciplinary programs, and 6 applied centers. We offer a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs with extensive honors and early-entry options. The College plays a pivotal role in delivering on the university's goals in the areas of research excellence, student success and experience, and community engagement. Through their scholarship and teaching, the College's 350+ faculty members seek to deepen our understanding of complex problems and lead the university in interdisciplinary collaboration.

This position will have joint responsibilities in the Department of Psychological Science and the Health Psychology PhD program. The primary responsibilities of this position are to: 1) serve as the Director of the Behavioral Health and Resiliency Clinic (BeHealthieR Clinic); and 2) teach undergraduate and/or graduate courses in clinical psychology, including in the APA-accredited clinical psychology concentration of the Health Psychology PhD Program which is housed in the Department of Psychological Science. This role involves teaching clinical training and related courses. In addition to clinically-related teaching and providing clinical supervision to doctoral students, applicants will be responsible for administrative duties pertaining to the BeHealthieR clinic (e.g., supervising student trainees, assigning clients, updating clinic measures, etc.).

Required qualifications:

- A PhD or PsyD degree from an APA-accredited Clinical or Counseling Psychology program

- Desire to build and support an in-house training clinic for doctoral students in Health Psychology

- Strong skills in psychotherapeutic interventions or clinical assessment with adults or children
- Licensure (or eligibility to be licensed) as a health service psychologist in North Carolina

- Ability to supervise and train clinical health psychology doctoral students in all areas

commensurate with APA accreditation standards

- Ability to teach clinical psychology courses at the graduate and undergraduate level

- Experience with, and commitment to, serving and training people from an array of backgrounds in order to support student success and excellent client outcomes

- Commitment to the scientist-practitioner model of clinical psychology training, including the utilization of evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches
This position will have joint responsibilities in the Department of Psychological Science and the Health Psychology PhD program.

Preferred qualifications

- Strong administrative skills (i.e., developing and managing a budget, developing and implementing policies and procedures, working with IT, managing teams of graduate student clinicians)

- Experience working in or managing a training clinic that provides individual, group, couple, and assessment services

- Experience in clinical supervision

- Evidence of high-quality teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills

- Passionate about growing the clinic to serve both on- and off- campus communities

- Interested in supporting clinic-based research with faculty and graduate students

- Experience obtaining and managing funding for clinical activities

The Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is seeking excellent candidates in the area of clinical psychology for a non-tenure-track faculty position to begin August 11, 2025. This position is a full-time, 9-month academic position that is renewable every three years. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Summer teaching is available for supplementary pay.

Applications must be submitted electronically at https://jobs.charlotte.edu/ (position number: #2714). Please attach the following documents with your electronic application: (1) a cover letter explaining how you meet the position requirements, (2) a statement of interest and experience in clinic administration, supervision and teaching, (3) curriculum vitae, (4) evidence of effectiveness in clinical supervision, clinic administration and teaching (if available), and (5) names and contact information for three people who can provide recommendations (letters will be requested for candidates who are invited for a phone interview). The candidate chosen for this position will be required to provide an official transcript of their highest earned degree and will be subject to a criminal background check. Review of applications will begin on December 2, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled.