Child and Adolescent Psychologist
Company: UNC-Chapel Hill
Location: Chapel Hill
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Position Summary The Department of Psychiatry at the University
of North Carolina ( UNC ) School of Medicine at Chapel Hill is
seeking a psychologist specializing in child and adolescent mental
health to join their outpatient team. The University is committed
to the expansion of child and adolescent mental health and to the
increased access to high quality, empirically validated therapeutic
services for adolescents and young adults with more significant
risk or mental health conditions. The position would primarily
involve outpatient work at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Program in Chapel Hill, NC and will ideally engage referrals from
the local Youth Behavioral Health hospital, inpatient units, and
intensive outpatient program ( IOP ) at UNC . Primary duties will
involve providing outpatient psychotherapy to children,
adolescents, and young adults and offering neurocognitive testing
and personality or behavioral structure assessments to these
population increasing access to care and treatment planning.
Additional opportunities would include teaching and supervising
psychiatry residents, medical students, and other healthcare
trainees who rotate throughout the department. This position will
include direct patient care both in-person and in virtual contexts,
and may also include settings within the larger UNC hospital (e.g.,
programming work on the child and adolescent inpatient units;
therapy services within the Center for Women’s Mood Disorders).
There are also opportunities for providing group, family, and/or
parenting therapy services, depending on the clinical interests of
the faculty member. An expectation of the position will be the
supervision of graduate level psychology students. Given this
position’s primary aim of providing services to youth discharging
from intensive programs, the ideal candidate will have a background
in addressing complex mental health concerns and/or trauma and
managing high-risk clients, with a focus on treating mood disorders
and/or serious mental health presentations. Faculty will be
required to provide outpatient therapy to approximately 24 patients
per week. As a member of the faculty at the University of North
Carolina Department of Psychiatry the position will require
teaching and supervision as described below and engagement in
research. Research expectations will depend on the interests and
prior investment in research on behalf of the qualified candidate.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, And Experience Training in
child and adolescent mental health including prior completion of an
APA -approved internship specifically in a child training track,
and a child and adolescent structured Clinical Psychology
Fellowship in Child and Adolescent. Clinical Psychology doctoral
degree preferred. Experience in an academic medical setting or
primary healthcare setting strongly preferred.
Keywords: UNC-Chapel Hill, Winston-Salem , Child and Adolescent Psychologist, Healthcare , Chapel Hill, North Carolina
