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Job Requisition ID: 52624 

Opening Date: 01/12/2026
Closing Date: 01/26/2026
​Agency: Department of Human Services
Class Title: PSYCHOLOGIST II - 35612 
Skill Option: None 
Bilingual Option: None
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $6,589 - $9,541 per month ($79,068 - $114,492 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category: Full Time 
County: Lake
Number of Vacancies: 1
Bargaining Unit Code: RC063 Professional Employees, Educators,Juvenile Justice School Counselors and Special Education Resources Coordinators,and Physicians AFSCME
Merit Comp Code: 

Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Psychologist II for the Kiley Developmental Center located in Waukegan, Illinois to conduct professional psychological services to individuals within the assigned caseload. Designs and implements behavior modification programs and assists more experienced psychologists in training staff in the techniques of behavior modification and learning theory. Conducts individual, group and family therapy and administers and completes comprehensive psychological assessments and psychological tests. Designs and evaluates behavioral management programs. Counts data and reports statistical information as part of the Interdisciplinary (ID) process. Uses data to adjust individual programming. Serves as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team, provides community linkage in relations to individual evaluation and specific psychological/psychiatric services determined by the interdisciplinary treatment team. Attends and participates in psychology services committees and groups and completes treatment documentation.

Essential Functions

  • Conducts professional psychological services to individuals within the assigned caseload at Kiley Developmental Center.
  • Conducts individual, group and family therapy sessions for assigned cases.
  • Serves as a member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
  • Administers and completes comprehensive psychological assessments and psychological tests.
  • Completes treatment documentation.
  • Provides community linkage in relations to individual evaluation and specific psychological/psychiatric services determined by the interdisciplinary treatment team.
  • Attends and participates in psychology services committees and groups.
  • Keeps abreast of any new psychology-based developments and/or treatments regarding developmentally disabled individuals.
  • Performs other duties as assigned or required which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to a doctoral degree in psychology from a recognized college or university supplemented by one (1) year of professional experience in psychology.  For candidates not possessing these qualifications, a master’s degree in psychology from a recognized college or university is a minimum requirement. If the minimum educational requirement is met, four (4) years’ qualifying professional psychology experience may be substituted for the doctoral degree in psychology and one (1) years’ experience.
  • *This class is included as an Upward Mobility Program credential title.

Conditions of Employment

  • Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to individual or others.
  • Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends and holidays.
  • Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
  • Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.
  • Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
  • Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
  • The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

Work Hours: See below:

Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm, working one early shift (first Tuesday: 7:00am - 3:30pm), one late shift (second Thursday: 11:30am - 8:00pm), and one weekend day (third Saturday: 7:00am - 3:30pm; with previous Thursday off) per month, with a 30-minute unpaid lunch, Clinical Services

Headquarter Location: 1401 W Dugdale Rd, Waukegan, Illinois, 60085

Division of Developmental Disabilities

Kiley Developmental Center

Psychological Services

Work County: Lake

Agency Contact: DHS.HiringUnit@illinois.gov

Posting Group: Health Services; Social Services