Summary

Ben Taub Hospital is a county-funded general hospital built in 1963 to serve the needs of the Houston area. The Psychiatry Service at BTH provides inpatient and outpatient treatment for medically indigent and psychiatrically impaired persons. As a member of the Psychiatry team, the postdoctoral fellow will provide assessment and therapy services to psychiatric patients in the outpatient and inpatient setting. For the upcoming academic year (2026-2027), full-time postdoctoral fellowship is available for the Baylor College of Medicine/Ben Taub Hospital Adult Inpatient/Outpatient Track. During the fellowship year, postdoctoral fellows will spend six months in the BTMHS outpatient clinic and six months on the adult acute psychiatric inpatient unit at BTH.

Baylor College of Medicine typically follows similar to the NIH stipulated stipend guidelines for Postdoctoral Associates.

Job Duties

• Provides psychological assessments and therapy services to psychiatric outpatients and serve as a primary clinician for the Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP).  
• Becomes an integral member of two multi-disciplinary treatment teams.
• Functions as consultants on the treatment teams and provide services that include individual therapy, group therapy, and brief psychological assessments to patients admitted to the inpatient unit. 
• Conducts psychological assessment and consultation services to medical inpatients through the hospital Consultation and Liaison Service (C&L). 
• Chooses an Elective Rotation (i.e. individual therapy, research, specialized outpatient groups, human trafficking patients, assessment).
• Works with psychiatry residents, teach psychology seminars to medical students.
• Participates in ongoing research protocols. The training program is flexible and tailored to the fellow’s interests and needs upon agreement between supervisors and fellow. Some activities are required, but there is considerable room for customization within the general categories of training activities. 
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• PhD or PsyD from an accredited doctoral program in clinical or counseling psychology. Completion of an APA-accredited predoctoral internship  no more than five years prior to the initial appointment date.
• Experience in a psychiatric inpatient setting. Experience administering psychological test batteries that includes projective measures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduates from APA- or CPA-Accredited Counseling or Clinical Psychology Ph.D. or Psy.D. training programs.