Thank you for your interest in applying to Phoenix Children's Postdoctoral Residency/Fellowship.

Qualifications

  • Background in pediatric psychology with a specific interest in providing care to patients with pain issues, complex medical conditions, or requiring rehabilitation, palliative care, or other subspecialty care.
  • PhD or PsyD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology with a focus on clinical child and adolescent or pediatric/health psychology from an APA-approved doctoral program.
  • APA-accredited internship in pediatric psychology completed.
  • Graduate and internship training completed prior to the start date.

Phoenix Children’s Hospital requires successful completion of a standard background check, a 12-panel drug screen (including marijuana), full vaccination for COVID-19 (among other diseases) and TB Test as part of the new hire onboarding.  A positive test for marijuana, even with a medical marijuana card, will prevent hiring or result in termination.

Criminal or other concerning history identified in a background check will be reviewed by the Training Committee, the Graduate Medical Education Committee and, if applicable, PCH Compliance, on a case-by-case basis to determine if there are mitigating factors that warrant proceeding with the onboarding process. PCH follows all applicable federal and state laws, including the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in conducting any background screening.”

Trainee Recruitment / Interviews

For the coming year, the program is in agreement with APPIC’s encouragement “to consider factors such as equity and inclusion and mitigation of bias in making decisions regarding the use of virtual interviews in recruitment.” These decisions will be made by the Training committee and included in our public materials.
 

How to Apply

Please send all inquiries regarding this position to Dr. Tava Arnold at tarnold1 [at] phoenixchildrens.com (tarnold1[at]phoenixchildrens[dot]com). Applications will be evaluated as they are received. Deadline for submission is the first Monday of December every year. We anticipate interviews will begin mid-January. We also recognize that applicants’ internship experiences have been impacted by COVID-19, in some cases resulting in fewer hours and types of experience. Thus, our evaluation process will emphasize the acquisition of competence over the accrual of hours. 

Phoenix Children’s follows the APPIC Postdoctoral Selection Guidelines with offers being made according to the policies of the Common Hold Date of 02/24/25.

Please review and complete the application process as noted on the Arizona Psychology Training Consortium (AzPTC) website. Additionally, Psychology Training Program Directors request that applicants consider the following in their personal statements:

Phoenix Children’s is dedicated to improving the health and lives of all children in our community – not just the ones we see as patients. When you look at factors like poverty, education and health status, Arizona ranks 41st in the nation. This underscores the need for progressive and far-reaching programs that impact as many children as possible. We recognize, affirm and celebrate the diverse backgrounds, lives and experiences of all our families, volunteers and staff. We are dedicated to developing a diverse clinician workforce that reflects the communities in which we work as paramount to meeting Phoenix Children’s mission of providing hope, healing and the best health care for children and their families.

Required materials

  1. Cover letter describing clinical and training interests and professional goals.
  2. In your personal statement, we encourage you to: 
    a. Share how the statement above resonate with your experience. 
    b. Detail the role you see our residency/fellowship having in the development of your career.
  3. Current CV.
  4. Copy of graduate school transcript.
  5. Expected degree conferral date. Please note, training hours during postdoctoral residency/fellowship will not start to accrue towards minimum hour requirement until after degree is conferred.
  6. Verification from your Director of Clinical Training that you are on track for completing the program prior to August.
  7. Three letters of recommendation. Send application materials to Dr. Arnold at tarnold1 [at] phoenixchildrens.com (tarnold1[at]phoenixchildrens[dot]com) and the director of the Arizona Psychology Training Consortium (AzPTC), Dr. Elizabeth Capps-Conkle at drcappsconkle [at] gmail.com (drcappsconkle[at]gmail[dot]com).

Deadline: The first Monday of December every year.