Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Long Island Jewish Medical Center - The Zucker Hillside Hospital: Clinical Child Psychology

Northwell Health
Glen Oaks, New York

Starts on Monday, September 14, 2026

Applications due Friday, November 14, 2025

This training experience will NOT follow the APPIC Selection Standards with Common Hold Date (CHD) and may not allow applicants to hold offers until the CHD. Applicants may need to respond to an offer for this position prior to completing interviews or knowing their standing with other positions.

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 of 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 primary training site for the Northwell Health APA-Accredited Clinical Child and Adolescent Post-Doctoral Fellowship is the Zucker Hillside Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Department (COPD), with opportunities for additional training across other areas of the medical center. Previous fellows have elected secondary training rotations on our adolescent acute-care inpatient service or pediatric hematology/oncology service.

Within the COPD, fellows have rich exposure to various evidence-based treatment models including Dialectic-Behavior Therapy (DBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) and Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE). Fellows are offered certification-eligible training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and basic foundational training in the Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents (UP-C and UP-A) by our in-house certified trainers. Fellows can also elect to complete certification-eligible training in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) through our partnership with Hofstra University.

Fellows typically carry a divers caseload of individual and family therapy cases in the child clinic under the supervision of two or more faculty with different areas of clinical expertise. Fellows also have the opportunity to develop a clinical specialty through participation in either our adolescent DBT team or the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Mastery Program (CAAMP).

The Division is deeply committed to providing high quality clinical services as well as excellent training and supervision. Attention is also paid to the fellow’s professional development, with potential opportunities for supervision of junior trainees, teaching, program development, research and related activities.

The Fellowship Program will begin on or about September 14, 2026, (contingent on health and security clearance) and end on or about September 10, 2027. The salary is currently $68,000 annually accompanied by benefits and vacation time. Benefits include 20 days of paid time off, up to five days for professional activities (at the program director’s discretion), and 8 paid legal holidays.

We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis starting October 1st, 2025 until the position is filled.

To apply, please send the following materials via email to clinical child specialty director Meredith Owens, PhD, ABPP (MOwens1@northwell.edu):

Curriculum Vitae

Cover Letter

Three letters of recommendation

Letter of readiness for post-doctoral training from graduate program DCT including current status of the dissertation and anticipated date of doctoral degree will be rewarded

An official copy of your graduate transcript

https://www.northwell.edu/research-and-education/graduate-medical-education/training-program-psychology-zucker-hillside-hospital

Additional Information

Agency Type: Private/Psychiatric Hospital
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: Yes
Recognized Specialty: Clinical Child Psychology
Emphasis or focus area: Child/Adolescent
Research Time: No research time
Training Director: Elihu Turkel (Meredith Owens - Fellowship Director)
Contact Email: mowens1@northwell.edu
Contact Phone: 718-470-4833
Virtual Interviews: Available
Duration in Months: 12
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 15
Number of Positions: 2
Applications recieved last year: 26
Accepts Int'l Students
Stipend: $68000
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards: No
Estimated offer date: Monday, December 15 2025
Created Date: Friday, July 1 2016
Fringe Benefits: Health insurance various plans, cost shared with employer; optional dental and vision, etc.
Application Instructions: Applicants may either submit materials via the APPIC Psychology Postdoctoral Application (APPA) Centralized Application System or send a by email directly to Dr. Owens at mowens1@northwell.edu.

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