Senior Psychologist (PhD/PsyD) - Denver, CO
Listed compensation
$95k-$125k
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time · on_site
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job description
Join CLFC Healthcare and Communications as a Senior Psychologist – Inpatient, Loan Forgiveness in Denver, CO, US. Position Reference: 01CLFCT020-SR About Larned State Hospital Larned State Hospital. A 78 acre campus and the largest psychiatric facility in the state, serving the western two thirds of Kansas with nearly 1,000 employees and capacity to treat more than 450 patients daily.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $95K - $125K
- Signing bonus: $1,000.
- Student loan repayment assistance.
- State of Kansas retirement
- Deferred compensation
- Full family health coverage
- Dental and vision
- Paid leave
- Ten paid State holidays
Work Schedule
- Full-Time position.
- On-site position.
- Flexible scheduling available.
This position offers a signing bonus, student loan benefits. Work with CLFC Healthcare and Communications in Denver, CO, US.
Key Responsibilities
The Senior Psychologist will manage a clinical caseload of adult inpatients with serious mental illness while providing supervision and clinical guidance to staff and trainees. They will also contribute to forensic evaluations, risk assessment, and quality improvement initiatives within a multidisciplinary treatment team.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a doctoral degree (PhD or PsyD) in a qualifying psychology discipline and be eligible for licensure by the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Experience working with serious mental illness is a firm requirement, with preference given to those with forensic or inpatient psychiatric backgrounds.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Senior Psychologist (PhD/PsyD) - Denver, CO at CLFC Healthcare and Communications a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Psychology psychologist listings evaluated on our platform.
Psychologist Career Context
CLFC Healthcare and Communications holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 75/100, 55 active listings.
In Colorado, the Psychology weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$130k (70 salary observations; 101 listings), vs ~$128k nationally (2,601 salary observations; 4,354 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Psychology listings this role was benchmarked against, 58% are remote, 28% have no call, 36% require no weekends.
Psychology pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Colorado is 103.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$110k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $107k in an average-cost state. 60.9% of Colorado clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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