Postdoctoral fellowship in Integrated Primary Care / Trauma & Community Resilience at Boston Children's Hospital

06 Nov 2023    

Postdoctoral Fellow Position in

Pediatric Integrated Primary Care and Trauma and Community Resilience Center

Boston Children’s Hospital, 2024-2025

We are excited to offer one full-time postdoctoral fellowship position in pediatric and child clinical psychology through a partnership between Children's Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC), a pediatric primary care practice housed at the main Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) campus, and BCH's Trauma and Community Resilience Center (TCRC). CHPCC is partnering with the Refugee Trauma and Resilience Core of the TCRC around Project Epic (Enhancing Pediatric Integrated Care), an initiative aimed at implementing Trauma Systems Therapy (TST) and components of its adaptation for refugees and immigrants (TST-R) to increase access and engagement of ethnocultural youth and families specifically within our primary care program. The TCRC works to support providers and service systems in delivering exceptional, effective care to refugee and immigrant youth and their families through research, resource development, intervention development, and training. The psychology fellow will hone their skills in the delivery of a broad range of clinical services within an integrated pediatric medical home, along with specialized skills in TST/TST-R to raise the standard of care for refugees, immigrants, and other vulnerable populations.

CHPCC is a large and busy practice, serving a racially and ethnically diverse population of more than 17,000 children and adolescents, many of whom live in low-income neighborhoods of the city of Boston. The clinic caseload is characterized by a high patient disease burden and accompanying high levels of chronic and complex psychosocial stress and trauma. Our clinic is very invested in health equity and cultural responsiveness to serve the diverse needs of our patient population. Over recent years, we have engaged in a range of efforts around our behavioral health integration initiative, which involves a standardized and systemic approach to identifying, treating, and tracking behavioral health and related concerns across our patient population.

The CHPCC/TCRC fellowship includes clinical training, and participation in seminars and lectures in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Primary Care programs at BCH. Clinical activities include consultation with patients/families, medical providers, social workers, and other interdisciplinary staff; diagnostic assessments and delivery of brief, problem-focused treatment with patients and their families, representing a range of diversity with respect to presenting behavioral health and medical concerns, family characteristics, and sociocultural factors; and guardianship evaluations with young adults with significant developmental disabilities. The fellow will also be trained in TST/TST-R and provide clinical services as part of the Project EPIC clinical team. Our training program also affords opportunities to participate in special projects of interest (e.g., junior supervision of psychology interns; group programming; delivery of trainings or other didactic presentations with interdisciplinary staff; work with CHPCC specialty clinics, including Advocating Success for Kids [ASK], a school advocacy program, and Young Parents Program [YPP], which provides holistic healthcare for teen parents and their children).

This position is for one year, with an option for a second year, depending on funding and matching fellow and program interests. Completed applications must be received by December 11, 2023 and should be submitted through APPA CAS: https://appicpostdoc.liaisoncas.com/

Please feel free to contact Rachel Tunick, PhD, Director of Integrated Behavioral Health, Children's Hospital Primary Care Center, with any questions: rachel.tunick@childrens.harvard.edu