Postdoctoral Resident

Overview

A fully accredited facility, University Health Services (UHS) at Princeton University provides responsive, high quality clinical, preventive, and consultative health services to over 8,000 Princeton undergraduate and graduate students and their dependents, and occupational health services to Princeton University faculty, staff, and employees. An integrated, evidence-informed model guides all UHS practices and services. UHS leverages clinical encounters and prevention efforts into meaningful opportunities for our members to learn about and adopt healthy living practices. UHS also supports a public health approach that prevents or responds rapidly to illness outbreaks and injury, and advances, preserves, or restores students’ capacity to take full advantage of their education.

UHS’s mission is to enhance learning and student success by advancing the health and well-being of our diverse University community. This mission is pursued and supports the University’s purpose by using current knowledge of health and human development to guide responsive, high quality clinical, prevention, and consultation services.

UHS’s values are Respect & Compassionate Care; Integrity & Service Excellence; Collaboration & Innovative Solutions; & Engagement & Lifelong Learning. UHS hires individuals of all backgrounds. We build on our staff’s diversity--recognizing, valuing, and appreciating the different perspectives, talents and energy of all. UHS invites all its employees to make a valuable contribution in this regard. We firmly believe that being an inclusive and culturally responsive community is one of the foundations of a vibrant, relevant organization. We aspire to develop the mindsets, knowledge and abilities to build equitable and inclusive systems, teams and culture.

In addition, UHS embraces an organization-wide commitment to quality and performance improvement. We aspire to be an organization in which all employees devote themselves to individual and systemic efforts to improve what they do so that all clients are well-served. Consistent with this direction, we hire individuals who are engaged, strive for excellence, and support continuous quality efforts.

As a member of the UHS staff, your job may be deemed “essential” as defined by University and UHS policy. Please ask you supervisor for additional information.

The position provides direct clinical services to our undergraduate and graduate student population, including urgent care and crisis intervention, psychological evaluations, time-limited individual and group psychotherapeutic treatment, on call services, campus liaison, mental health education, and community referral services. Also, UHS has an active Inpatient Service that provides 24 hour health coverage. As such, this postdoctoral resident position involves the provision of primary after-hours, on-call coverage, assigned at the discretion of the CPS Manager of Post-Doctoral Training.

The Post-Doctoral Resident demonstrates the potential to develop advanced diagnostic and case conceptualization skills, as well as knowledge in specialized content areas such as substance abuse, eating and body image concerns, sports psychology, and/or severe personality and affect-regulation problems. The particular skill and knowledge set to be further developed will include a strong understanding of effective psychotherapy interventions, the therapeutic alliance, and the developmental and mental health challenges affecting late adolescents and young adults, which the Resident will build upon via intensive supervised clinical experience; participation in weekly didactic seminars; and extensive case conferencing, consultation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

This is a one-year term, benefits-eligible position with an anticipated start date of August, 16, 2027. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to apply by December 1, 2026; Search will remain open until the positions are filled. 

Responsibilities

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical Care (60%)

• Provides urgent care and crisis intervention; performs psychological evaluations and time-limited individual and group psychotherapeutic treatmentServes on an after-hours, on-call rotation with other CPS psychologists/social workers.
• Performs specialized evaluations for students of concern: these include administrative, readmission, exit, and post-hospital evaluationsUses clinical data to inform diagnostic assessments (DSM-V-TR) and treatment planning Engages in campus outreach and community education related to mental health issues
• Serves on select UHS multidisciplinary treatment teams
• Serves as a mental health consultant to other University partners and stakeholders and a community referral resource for students
• Effectively manages the daily clinical operations, and/or development of new clinical services in response to changing needs of the student body.

Supervision/Conferencing/Didactics (24%)

• Individual Supervision
• Group Supervision
• Didactic Training (Seminar)
• Clinical Case Conference
• Support Group
• Peer Consultation

Administrative Management (16%)

• Participates in UHS, Campus Life, and University committees, as assigned by the Associate Director and Director
• Involved in other initiatives, projects, and activities, as assigned by the Associate Director and Director
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Required: Completion of pre-doctoral internship (APA-Accredited preferred), official notice of degree completion by 9/1/2027; experience with a broad range of clients (multiculturally and diagnostically) and completion of all doctoral program requirements (APA-accredited preferred) in clinical or counseling psychology.

Preferred: Doctorates conferred by start date; prior experience working in a university mental health service; experience treating patients with substance abuse issues, eating concerns, and/or trauma history; experience leading groups; experience working effectively with people on a broad spectrum of social identities; experience working with multiply diagnosed patients; DBT experience; mindfulness and meditation experience.

Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's qualifications, work experience, education/training, key skills, market, collective bargaining agreements as applicable, and organizational considerations when extending an offer. The posted salary range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate for a full-time position; salaries for part-time positions are pro-rated accordingly.

If the salary range on the posted position shows an hourly rate, this is the baseline; the actual hourly rate may be higher, depending on the position and factors listed above.

The University also offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. Please see this link for more information.

Standard Weekly Hours

36.25

Eligible for Overtime

No

Benefits Eligible

Yes

Probationary Period

180 days

Essential Services Personnel (see policy for detail)

Yes

Physical Capacity Exam Required

No

Valid Driver’s License Required

No #LI-CN1

Salary Range

$57,000 to $69,000