Psychologist (Primary Care Mental Health Integration)
for sections present: About the role? Not present. Responsibilities? Duties present. Requirements? Qualifications present. Benefits? There is info about Pay, Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Child Care Subsidy, Retirement, Insurance, Telework, etc. Also EDRP info. Also Work Schedule. So we need sections: Responsibilities (duties), Qualifications (requirements), Benefits (maybe combine Pay, Benefits, Schedule). Also maybe "Education Debt Reduction Program" could be its own section? Not required but could be under Benefits? The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. So we can have sections: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits (including Pay, Schedule, etc). Also maybe "Work Schedule" as its own? Could be part of Benefits or separate. But we need to avoid thin sections. Let's combine Pay, Schedule, Benefits into one Benefits section.
We must not repeat job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate.
We need to preserve all substantive info.
Let's extract content:
Summary: EDRP eligibility details.
Qualifications: long list of basic requirements, grade requirements, etc.
Duties: list of major duties.
Work Schedule: Full Time Monday-Friday 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM or 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM.
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases; higher step rate possible.
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time off per year (13-26 days annual leave - 13 days sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual based on prior work experience or military service.
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment - up to 12 weeks paid parental leave.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment - full time employees with total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to monthly maximum of $416.66.
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% contributions by VA.
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).
Telework: Not available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
EDRP details: eligibility, award amount up to $200,000, eligibility period one to five years, apply within four months of appointment, former EDRP participants ineligible, contact email.
Also note: Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not authorized. Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not authorized.
We should include that info maybe under Benefits or a separate section? Could be part of Benefits.
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for prose.
We must not create sections with filler. So we will have sections: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits (including Pay, Schedule, etc). Possibly also "Education Debt Reduction Program" as its own section because it's specific content. But we could incorporate into Benefits as well. However the instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine EDRP into Benefits as it's a benefit. But EDRP is a specific program; still a benefit. Could be part of Benefits.
We need headings:
About the role
etc. But we don't have About the role content. Could we create a short prose about the role? The instruction: Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short or drop it. It didn't forbid creating an About the role section if we have content. But we don't have explicit "About the role" prose; we have summary about EDRP. Could treat that as "About the role"? Might be stretching. Better to have sections that match actual headings present: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Work Schedule maybe. But we can combine Work Schedule into Benefits.
Thus sections: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits.
Under Benefits we include: Pay, Work Schedule, Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Child Care Subsidy, Retirement, Insurance, Telework/Virtual, EDRP, Recruitment/Relocation Incentives, Permanent Change of Station.
We need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present.
Now craft HTML.
We'll start with
Responsibilities
then - each duty.
Duties list from text:
- Collaborating with Primary Care Providers and interdisciplinary PACT members to provide coordinated - Veteran-centered care
- Conducting focused functional assessments and providing brief - evidence-based individual or group interventions
- Maintaining open-access appointments and supporting same-day warm handoffs within PACT
- Utilizing Measurement Based Care and stepped-care principles to match services with Veterans' clinical needs
- Identifying Veterans requiring more intensive or specialized mental health treatment and facilitating appropriate referrals
- Providing consultation and education to PACT members regarding behavioral health - health behavior - patient communication - motivation - and behavior change
- Completing timely clinical documentation and communicating relevant treatment information to members of the interdisciplinary team
- Participating in clinical - administrative - performance improvement - educational - training - and program evaluation activities as assigned
We need to preserve hyphens and punctuation.
Now Qualifications: we need to list requirements. The qualifications section is huge. We need to break into list items for each major requirement? Could group into subpoints but still list items.
We need to preserve all substantive info; we can't summarize away detail. So we need to include each requirement as separate list items? That could be many items but okay.
We need to capture:
- United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy
- Education: Have a doctoral degree in psychology from a graduate program in psychology accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) - the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) - or the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) at the time the program was completed; the specialty area of the degree must be consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed
OR - Have a doctoral degree in any area of psychology and - in addition - successfully complete a re- specialization program (including documentation of an approved internship completed as part of the re- specialization program) meeting both of the following conditions: The re-specialization program must be completed in an APA or a CPA accredited doctoral program; and - the specialty in which the applicant is retrained must be consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed
OR - Have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally-accredited institution - with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature
AND - Internship: Have successfully completed a professional psychology internship training program that was accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed and that is consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed
OR - New VHA psychology internship programs that are in the process of applying for APA accreditation are acceptable in fulfillment of the internship requirement - provided that such programs were sanctioned by the VHA Central Office Program Director for Psychology and the VHA Office of Academic Affiliations at the time that the individual was an intern
OR - VHA facilities that offered full-time - one-year pre-doctoral internships prior to PL 96- 151 (pre- 1979) are considered to be acceptable in fulfillment of the internship requirement
OR - Applicants who completed an internship that was not accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed may be considered eligible for hire only if they are currently board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in a specialty area that is consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed (NOTE: Once board certified - the employee is required to maintain board certification.)
OR - Applicants who have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally- accredited institution with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature may fulfill this internship requirement by having the equivalent of a one-year supervised internship experience in a site specifically acceptable to the candidate's doctoral program
If the internship experience is not noted on the applicant's official transcript - the applicant must provide a statement from the doctoral program verifying that the equivalent of a one- year supervised internship experience was completed in a site acceptable to the doctoral program
NOTE: Psychologists who meet the requirements of this revision and who were employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs prior to the implementation of this standard are considered to have fully met the requirements of this qualification standard
Licensure: Holds a full - current - and unrestricted license to practice psychology at the doctoral level in a State - Territory - or Commonwealth of the United States - or the District of Columbia
Grade Requirements: Creditable Experience: To be creditable - psychological work experience can be obtained through paid or non-paid employment providing psychological work or through participating in a supervised postdoctoral psychology training program (i.e. - fellowship or residency)
Psychological work experience must have occurred after the doctoral degree was obtained and must have required the use of knowledge - skills - abilities - and other characteristics associated with current professional psychology practice""Professional psychology practice"" includes but is not limited to the following psychology-oriented job duties: providing professional clinical services - conducting research - carrying out education and training activities - carrying out program evaluation activities - clinical consultation - supervision and administration
Quality of Experience: Experience is only creditable if it is post-doctoral experience as a professional psychologist directly related to the duties to be performed
Qualifying experience must also be at a level comparable to or exceeding professional psychology experience at the next lower level
Part-time Experience: Part-time experience is creditable according to its relationship to a full- time workweek
For example - a psychologist employed 20 hours per week - or on a half time basis - would receive one full-time workweek of credit for each two weeks of service
Post-Doctoral Degree Fellowships: Postdoctoral fellowships or residencies are training programs in an advanced area of clinical practice
Training as a fellow or resident is creditable experience on a year-for-year basis
GS-13 (Full Performance Level) Experience: At least 2 years of experience as a professional psychologist - with at least one year equivalent to the GS-12 level AND - Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills and Abilities: In addition to the experience above - the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs:
1Knowledge of - and ability to apply - professional psychological treatments to the full range of patient populations
2Ability to provide professional advice and consultation in areas related to professional psychology and behavioral health
3Knowledge of clinical research literature
Preferred Experience: Experience providing direct patient care in an integrated health care setting
Experience or interest in working with Veterans and military populations
Experience or comfort with working in a fast-paced environment - frequently set-shifting - seeing scheduled and unscheduled patients - attending primary care huddles - and providing consultation to primary care staff
Experience with or interest in learning brief - evidence-based interventions and brief documentation
May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria)
Reference: For more information on this qualification standard - please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/
This full performance level of this vacancy is GS-13
Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019.
We need to keep all that.
- . For qualifications list, also
- . For benefits list, also
- .
We need to use
for prose. We must not create sections with filler. So we will have sections: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits (including Pay, Schedule, etc). Possibly also "Education Debt Reduction Program" as its own section because it's specific content. But we could incorporate into Benefits as well. However the instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine EDRP into Benefits as it's a benefit. But EDRP is a specific program; still a benefit. Could be part of Benefits. We need headings:
About the role
etc. But we don't have About the role content. Could we create a short prose about the role? The instruction: Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a shortor drop it. It didn't forbid creating an About the role section if we have content. But we don't have explicit "About the role" prose; we have summary about EDRP. Could treat that as "About the role"? Might be stretching. Better to have sections that match actual headings present: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Work Schedule maybe. But we can combine Work Schedule into Benefits. Thus sections: Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits. Under Benefits we include: Pay, Work Schedule, Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Child Care Subsidy, Retirement, Insurance, Telework/Virtual, EDRP, Recruitment/Relocation Incentives, Permanent Change of Station. We need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present. Now craft HTML. We'll start with
Responsibilities
then- each duty. Duties list from text: - Collaborating with Primary Care Providers and interdisciplinary PACT members to provide coordinated - Veteran-centered care - Conducting focused functional assessments and providing brief - evidence-based individual or group interventions - Maintaining open-access appointments and supporting same-day warm handoffs within PACT - Utilizing Measurement Based Care and stepped-care principles to match services with Veterans' clinical needs - Identifying Veterans requiring more intensive or specialized mental health treatment and facilitating appropriate referrals - Providing consultation and education to PACT members regarding behavioral health - health behavior - patient communication - motivation - and behavior change - Completing timely clinical documentation and communicating relevant treatment information to members of the interdisciplinary team - Participating in clinical - administrative - performance improvement - educational - training - and program evaluation activities as assigned We need to preserve hyphens and punctuation. Now Qualifications: we need to list requirements. The qualifications section is huge. We need to break into list items for each major requirement? Could group into subpoints but still list items. We need to preserve all substantive info; we can't summarize away detail. So we need to include each requirement as separate list items? That could be many items but okay. We need to capture: - United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy - Education: Have a doctoral degree in psychology from a graduate program in psychology accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) - the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) - or the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) at the time the program was completed; the specialty area of the degree must be consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed OR - Have a doctoral degree in any area of psychology and - in addition - successfully complete a re- specialization program (including documentation of an approved internship completed as part of the re- specialization program) meeting both of the following conditions: The re-specialization program must be completed in an APA or a CPA accredited doctoral program; and - the specialty in which the applicant is retrained must be consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed OR - Have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally-accredited institution - with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature AND - Internship: Have successfully completed a professional psychology internship training program that was accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed and that is consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed OR - New VHA psychology internship programs that are in the process of applying for APA accreditation are acceptable in fulfillment of the internship requirement - provided that such programs were sanctioned by the VHA Central Office Program Director for Psychology and the VHA Office of Academic Affiliations at the time that the individual was an intern OR - VHA facilities that offered full-time - one-year pre-doctoral internships prior to PL 96- 151 (pre- 1979) are considered to be acceptable in fulfillment of the internship requirement OR - Applicants who completed an internship that was not accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed may be considered eligible for hire only if they are currently board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in a specialty area that is consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed (NOTE: Once board certified - the employee is required to maintain board certification.) OR - Applicants who have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally- accredited institution with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature may fulfill this internship requirement by having the equivalent of a one-year supervised internship experience in a site specifically acceptable to the candidate's doctoral program If the internship experience is not noted on the applicant's official transcript - the applicant must provide a statement from the doctoral program verifying that the equivalent of a one- year supervised internship experience was completed in a site acceptable to the doctoral program NOTE: Psychologists who meet the requirements of this revision and who were employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs prior to the implementation of this standard are considered to have fully met the requirements of this qualification standard Licensure: Holds a full - current - and unrestricted license to practice psychology at the doctoral level in a State - Territory - or Commonwealth of the United States - or the District of Columbia Grade Requirements: Creditable Experience: To be creditable - psychological work experience can be obtained through paid or non-paid employment providing psychological work or through participating in a supervised postdoctoral psychology training program (i.e. - fellowship or residency) Psychological work experience must have occurred after the doctoral degree was obtained and must have required the use of knowledge - skills - abilities - and other characteristics associated with current professional psychology practice""Professional psychology practice"" includes but is not limited to the following psychology-oriented job duties: providing professional clinical services - conducting research - carrying out education and training activities - carrying out program evaluation activities - clinical consultation - supervision and administration Quality of Experience: Experience is only creditable if it is post-doctoral experience as a professional psychologist directly related to the duties to be performed Qualifying experience must also be at a level comparable to or exceeding professional psychology experience at the next lower level Part-time Experience: Part-time experience is creditable according to its relationship to a full- time workweek For example - a psychologist employed 20 hours per week - or on a half time basis - would receive one full-time workweek of credit for each two weeks of service Post-Doctoral Degree Fellowships: Postdoctoral fellowships or residencies are training programs in an advanced area of clinical practice Training as a fellow or resident is creditable experience on a year-for-year basis GS-13 (Full Performance Level) Experience: At least 2 years of experience as a professional psychologist - with at least one year equivalent to the GS-12 level AND - Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills and Abilities: In addition to the experience above - the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs: 1Knowledge of - and ability to apply - professional psychological treatments to the full range of patient populations 2Ability to provide professional advice and consultation in areas related to professional psychology and behavioral health 3Knowledge of clinical research literature Preferred Experience: Experience providing direct patient care in an integrated health care setting Experience or interest in working with Veterans and military populations Experience or comfort with working in a fast-paced environment - frequently set-shifting - seeing scheduled and unscheduled patients - attending primary care huddles - and providing consultation to primary care staff Experience with or interest in learning brief - evidence-based interventions and brief documentation May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria) Reference: For more information on this qualification standard - please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/ This full performance level of this vacancy is GS-13 Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019. We need to keep all that.
- .
We need to use
- . For benefits list, also