Benefis Health System in Great Falls, Montana, has an opportunity for a Pediatric Psychologist to join our team of dedicated behavioral health providers in a brand new, Women's and Children's Center. We are focused on providing great patient care to our community with strong support from administration and a goal of making a positive impact.
Position details
The ideal candidate is a pediatric psychologist looking to provide compassionate care for our pediatric patient population needing evaluation and treatment therapies.
The current team includes a full time integrated pediatric behavioral health psychologist, a full time pediatric neuropsychologist, a child/adolescent psychiatrist employed by Shodair Children’s Hospital, providing outpatient care in our space full time, in addition to a child/adolescent psychiatrist and pediatric psychologist who are focused on grant work and programing with 0.2 clinical FTEs
The clinic has a dedicated full time case worker and various clinical staff members offering provider, patient and family support
The department offers individual office spaces, calm down rooms and a PCIT therapy room and shares a floor (although areas are separate) with our general pediatric clinic of 4 pediatricians and 2 pediatric nurse practitioners for care collaboration, and has direct access to an onsite lab, and pediatric occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy are in the same building.
Work hours and call coverage
Clinic is staffed Monday – Friday for patient care needs
Provider schedules are flexible based on desires with no required call
Desired FTE commitment is full time, but part time requests may be considered
Why we stand out
Stand alone, financially stable, not-for-profit health system led by a CEO with a 20+ year tenure
Over 400 employed providers on medical staff
Regional tertiary center with robust specialty support including neurosurgery, pulmonology, neurology, endocrinology, rheumatology, advanced gastroenterology, cardiothoracic, and more!
Patient focused, quality community and regional medical care
Epic electronic medical record and good clinical support staffing structures
How we support you
Nationally competitive compensation structures with guaranteed salaries + productivity and performance bonuses
8 weeks paid time off (6 PTO, 2 CME)
Generous sign-on / relocation bonus
Annual $5,000 CME + $1,000 license/dues
5-7% retirement match + 457b program
Paid malpractice + tail
Physician wellness programs focused on personal and professional development
Monthly meetings with highest-level physician and administrative leadership to bring ideas forward and solve issues
Community Information: Great Falls is known as Montana’s base camp for art and adventure with a city population of 70,000, and a draw of over 275,000 people in north central Montana. We have four genuine seasons, experience mild winters and enjoy blue skies over 300 days per year. Great Falls is a wonderful and safe place to raise a family, with nationally ranked public schools, endless activities, two accredited colleges, a brand-new nursing school, a biomedical rural health research institute, and a new not-for-profit medical school, TouroCOM Montana. Additionally, the Missouri River, a blue-ribbon fly-fishing destination, runs through the middle of our community with over 60 miles of paved recreational trails. Our local outdoor activities include camping, backpacking, hiking, biking, horseback riding, water and snow skiing, rock and ice climbing, boating, paddle boarding, kayaking, off-road motor sports, and hunting making our quality of life unrivaled in the Rocky Mountain West. Additionally, in 2023, Montana was named #1 state in the nation to practice medicine by WalletHub and in 2020, Great Falls ranked #10 for best cities to practice in after the pandemic by Business Insider.
Benefis Health System is one of Montana’s largest tertiary centers holding a level II trauma designation. We are proud to be a standalone, financially stable community health system with strong, dedicated leadership focused on providing the best patient care in Montana, in addition to being awarded Becker’s “Best Places To Work in Healthcare” for 7 years. Benefis covers ¼ of the state’s land mass, an area comparable in size to Kansas and can provide advanced care for everything except for burns and organ transplants. We offer great specialty support including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic and vascular, advanced gastroenterology, a regional cancer institute and a state-of-the-art emergency trauma department with a dedicated air ambulance program, including fixed and rotor wing.