St. Louis Children's Hospital Pediatric Psychology Fellowship
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St. Louis Children's Hospital
Saint Louis , Missouri
Starts on Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Applications due Tuesday, December 31, 2024
This training experience has chosen to follow the APPIC Postdoctoral Selection Guidelines.
Elements of quality clinically focused postdoctoral training
This training experience is a planned and programmed sequence of training that aims to ensure preparation for advanced practice rather than one that is focused on providing supervised hours for licensure.
Yes
This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities.
Yes
This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration oof the experience.
Yes
This training experience is administered by a doctoral-level licensed psychologist who directs and organizes the training experience and its resources, is responsible for the selection of postdocs, and monitors and evaluates the goals and activities of the experience.
Yes
This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.
Yes
This training experience includes regularly scheduled structured educational activities that help postdocs its defined goals. These activities may include didactics, seminars, case conferences, and/or research activities.
Yes
This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures.
Yes
This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training.
Yes
The Psychology Department of St. Louis Children’s Hospital is pleased to recruit for 3 postdoctoral fellowship positions in pediatric psychology for the 2025-2026 training year, one year in length with an option of staying for a second year. The training year will begin on September 2, 2025. The program is a member of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC). Our application deadline is rolling and applications will be reviewed and interviews will be offered as materials are received.
We offer an individualized training program that allows us to tailor training opportunities to the specific clinical and professional interests, needs, and goals of the fellow. All fellows participate in our multidisciplinary craniofacial clinic and outpatient psychotherapy clinic. The fellowship offers a strong emphasis on clinical training, with major and minor training opportunities available in the areas of:
- Inpatient Medical Consultation and Liaison
- Solid organ transplant, Cardiology
- Pain and Somatic Symptom Disorders
In addition to robust clinical training, the fellowship also provides training in scholarly, QI, research, and program development activities. Fellows participate in a comprehensive set of didactic programming within the department that covers foundational as well as innovative topics, including but not limited to clinical intervention, ethical issues, professional issues, case conference, supervision, DEI-B, and QI/research. Fellows are valued members of the Department of Psychology as well as the medical teams with whom they work.
Our department serves inpatient and outpatient services to a diverse population of families from urban and rural settings, range of SES, range of ethnic diversity, ages (newborn-young adult), referral concern, and disease presentation. There are 3 locations where psychology provides care to patients and families, including SLCH Main Hospital and two nearby outpatient specialty care centers. Psychology fellows may work at more than one location dependent upon their clinical rotations.
Salary/Benefits: The position offers an annual stipend of $54,000. As a full-time employee, fellows are eligible for benefits including medical, dental, vision, short term disability, 401k participation and match, and life insurance options. Fellows are eligible for a total of 23 days of paid time off and 3 conference days. Fellows will be given funding towards professional development expenses including provisional licensure feeds.
For more information please see our website (link above).
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Childrens Hospital
- APPIC Membership
- Yes
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Child Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Child/Adolescent
- Other Emphasis
- Pediatric Psychology C/L
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Jennifer Allen
- Contact Email
- jennifer.allen@bjc.org
- Contact Phone
- 314-454-6069
- Virtual Interviews
- Strongly Preferred
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 16
- Number of Positions
- 3
- Applications recieved last year
- 17
- Stipend
- $54000
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Yes
- Estimated offer date
- Monday, February 3 2025
- Created Date
- Friday, July 1 2016
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- Eligible for Health, Dental, and Vision Benefits
Term Insurance = 1x’s salary
401k with matching 100% of 1st percent of salary, and 25% match for next 3% of salary
Time-off:
23 days of PTO (including scheduled vacation, unscheduled sick days, and holidays)
3 days of time off for attending a relevant conference/training, at the discretion of the training director (pending hospital travel restrictions)
$500 for professional development expenses
Paid registration and airfare for a major conference (i.e. SPPAC) (pending hospital budget)
Costs for Provisional Licensure in Missouri
- Research opportunities
- All fellows participate in Quality Improvement / Research Seminar
- Application Instructions
- Interested applicants can submit their application materials via email to jennifer.allen@bjc.org
A completed application consists of the following materials:
• A cover letter detailing training and research experiences, as well as professional interests. Please also indicate areas of major and minor specialization of interest for the training year.
• A current Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Three letters of recommendation, with one preferably from a direct internship supervisor
Please feel free to email the training director with any questions regarding the program or applications.
Jennifer Allen, PhD
Training Director, Pediatric Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship
Department of Psychology
jennifer.allen@bjc.org
314.454.6069
This record was last updated on Monday, December 16, 2024
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