Psychologist PRN
Compensation
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Job Description
Facility
CoxHealth South: 3801 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807
Department: 1114 Psychological Services SGF
Scheduled Weekly Hours
0
Hours: PRN
Work Shift
Day Shift (United States of America)
CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:
- Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.
- Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group.
- Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.
- Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)
- For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth
Job Description
Licensed, or license-eligible clinician with experience providing clinical diagnostic and treatment services which can include individual, group, family, health and behavior interventions, and/or psychological testing.
The clinician will conduct a variety of psychosocial assessments and provide care for patients through therapeutic use of self and/or the patient care/problem solving process to assist the patient and family to achieve basic healthcare goals.
The clinician is a member of an interdisciplinary team that is responsible for working collaboratively with providers, nurses, leadership and other team members to ensure development and implementation of appropriate standards.
May be asked to provide clinical coverage in other areas of the hospital, consistent with training and experience guidelines and needs to have flexibility in traveling between two hospitals 30 minutes apart.
As need is derived by the department, the clinician may be asked to provide program consultation, staff education, and/or supervision and training. Education: Required: Doctorate in clinical, counseling psychology or other eligible degree from an APA-Approved program.
Preferred: Specialized training (e. g., coursework, internship, post-doctoral fellowship) in clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and/or health psychology.
Experience: Required: 1-3 years related experience – experience can include post-doctoral, and/or independent practice Skills: Able to conduct assessment and treatment of patients in area(s) of assigned operations. Able to integrate work activities into multidisciplinary team environment.
Must be self-directed as will work alone at times. Carry out essential functions of the job with potential expansion of responsibility. Familiar with age specific needs for patient populations served.
Clinical capability to provide full range of behavioral health services to medical and to psychiatric patient populations. Licensure/Certification/Registration: Required: MO State Psychologist License
Key Responsibilities
The clinician provides diagnostic and treatment services, including individual, group, and family therapy, while conducting psychosocial assessments. They work within an interdisciplinary team to develop standards of care and may provide program consultation and staff education.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology from an APA-approved program and possess a valid Missouri State Psychologist License. A minimum of 1-3 years of related experience is required.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Psychologist PRN at CoxHealth a 7.5 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the Above average in Psychology — ranked against 1,716 active Psychology listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no night shifts.
Psychologist Career Context
Of the 50 active Psychology listings this role was benchmarked against, 50% are remote, 42% have no call, 50% require no weekends.
Psychology pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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