Program Therapist Career Opportunities

Enhance your Program Therapist career at Butler Hospital.

Why Butler Hospital?

Butler Hospital is the state's only non-profit, free-standing psychiatric hospital providing adults, seniors and adolescents specialized assessment and treatment for all major psychiatric illnesses and substance abuse.

Butler is the major affiliated teaching hospital for psychiatry and behavioral health of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

It is the flagship hospital for its Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, which has been recognized by its peers as one of the top ten in the US.

Butler is the major training site and the base hospital for the Brown University General Residency in Psychiatry.

Many physicians and psychologists at Butler are also part of the Brown Institute for Brain Science and participate in exciting clinical research initiatives with this world-renowned center for neuroscience.

Job Summary: Under direct supervision of the Program Manager and the general supervision of the Program Unit Chief, evaluates, diagnoses and treats a wide range of psychosocial problems, applying individual and group cognitive-behavioral interventions in order to assist patients and their families in the resolution of personal and environmental problems, attributable to psychiatric issues which prevents them from achieving their highest level of psychosocial functioning. Demonstrates ethical and collaborative behavior to ensure quality of care and promote positive department and program relationships.

Responsibilities: Completes Initial Psychiatric and Behavioral evaluations as assigned by the Program Manager.

Qualifications:

Education: Master's Degree or above.

Licensure: License required. Independent license preferred

Training and Experience: Experience in a psychiatric setting is required. Training and experience in delivering exposure-based CBT is necessary- particularly with specialty areas (OCD, anxiety, hoarding) or completing continuing education/in-services in that area will be required. Experienced in providing group and individual psychotherapy required.

Special Qualifications: Interest and commitment in the programs at Butler Hospital and the Dept of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown.