A professional who plans psychological service programs and directs, coordinates, and participates in activities of personnel engaged in providing psychological services to clients in psychiatric center or hospital. Responsibilities include:

• Reviews reports, case management reviews, and psychiatric center's or hospital's procedural manual to assess need for psychological services.
• Plans psychological treatment programs that meet standards of accreditation.
• Plans utilization of available staff, assigns staff to treatment units, and recruits professional and nonprofessional psychological staff.
• Develops, directs, and participates in training programs.
• Directs testing and evaluation of new admissions and re-evaluation of present clients.
• Participates in staff conferences to evaluate and plan treatment programs.
• Interviews clients that present difficult and complex diagnostic problems and assesses their psychological status.
• Reviews management of cases, assignments, case problems, issues, and methods of treatment.
• Works with community agencies to develop effective corrective programs and to arrange to provide psychological services.
• Plans and supervises psychological research.
• Collaborates with psychiatrists and other professional staff to help develop comprehensive program of therapy, evaluation, and treatment.