SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST, CF (SPECIALIST) -California State Prison - Sacramento
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Department Information: location CSP-SACRAMENTO (SAC) in REPRESA, CA, Sacramento County. Must indicate JC-521239 and position number on application: 284-220-9287-XXX. Main communication via email. Ensure valid email.
- Located next door to Old Folsom Prison, description of facility, city Folsom family friendly etc. Vision, Mission, statements about CDCR and CCHCS.
- Job Description And Duties: Effective July 1, 2025, PLP 2025 reduces base salary 3% and gives 5 PLP credits monthly through June 2027. Salaries do not reflect recent changes. Please be advised of following additional pay benefits individuals may be eligible for: Recruitment and Retention Bonus may be available for clinicians newly hired with CCHCS. Please note: Individuals may be eligible to receive a $10,000 one-time recruitment and retention stipend should they meet eligibility criteria, including but not limited to remaining employed with CCHCS for six months. Additionally, individuals may be eligible to receive a monthly recruitment and retention differential during their first year with CCHCS (totaling $20,000), should they meet eligibility criteria. Then repeats: again $10k stipend, monthly differential totaling $5,000. There's inconsistency. Also IMPORTANT: CDCR/CCHCS employees may be eligible for a $5,000 referral bonus if selected for hire and remain employed 90 days. Questionnaire details.
- Under general direction of Chief Psychologist or Senior Psychologist, CF (Supervisor), the Senior Psychologist, CF (Specialist) performs as clinical systems expert and provides psychological consultation relating to institution’s health care performance management programs and processes. The incumbent serves as advisor to institution executives, and acts as liaison with Statewide Quality Officer and Quality Management Section staff, statewide executives in various disciplines, other Institution Chief Quality Officers (CQO), and other stakeholder groups as appropriate.
- To obtain list eligibility for the SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST, CORRECTIONAL FACILITY (SPECIALIST) before applying, you must first take and pass the SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST, CORRECTIONAL FACILITY (SPECIALIST) examination. You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.
- There's also Equal Opportunity Employer boilerplate which we must remove.
We need to produce sections: maybe About the role (description of role), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (qualifications/exam), Benefits (pay benefits like recruitment bonus, stipend, differential, referral bonus), Pay (maybe mention base salary reduction? but that's not a specific salary figure; we should not create Pay section unless posting actually states them. It mentions PLP reduces base salary 3% but no actual salary number. So we should not create Pay section because no specific salary figure. However we could include Pay if they mention base salary reduction? The rule: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state additional pay benefits (bonus, stipend, differential, referral). Those are benefits, not base pay. So we can have Benefits section. Pay section would be for salary info; we don't have that. So omit Pay.
Schedule: no mention of schedule (hours). So omit.
We need About the role: maybe a summary of role and location. Could use the department info and vision/mission as about the role? But we should not invent. We can include location and facility description as About the role.
Responsibilities: the duties described: clinical systems expert, psychological consultation, advisor to institution executives, liaison with Statewide Quality Officer, etc.
Requirements: must take and pass the Senior Psychologist, Correctional Facility (Specialist) examination before applying. Also maybe need valid email? That's more application instruction; we should remove application instructions. But we could include requirement: must have valid email address? That's application instruction; we should remove. So just exam requirement.
Qualifications: maybe none explicit besides exam. Could omit.
Skills: none explicit.
Benefits: list recruitment and retention bonus, $10k stipend, monthly differential (maybe both $20k and $5k? The posting repeats contradictory numbers. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include both statements as they appear, even if contradictory. So we should include both mentions: $10k stipend, monthly differential totaling $20k; also again $10k stipend, monthly differential totaling $5k. Also referral bonus $5k.
We need to format as - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for Benefits we can make a list.
For Responsibilities we can list duties.
For About the role we can use
for prose.
We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading for Senior Psychologist.
We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; we can fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. The location and JC-521239 and position number are minor metadata; we can include in a short
maybe under About the role.
We must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So remove Equal Opportunity Employer paragraph. Also remove duplicated lines? There's duplicated stipend/differential lines; we must preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot remove duplicates if they are substantive? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should deduplicate identical lines. The duplicated lines: "Please note: Individuals may be eligible to receive a $10,000 one-time recruitment and retention stipend should they meet the eligibility criteria, including but not limited to remaining employed with CCHCS for six months." appears twice. Also "Additionally, individuals may be eligible to receive a monthly recruitment and retention differential during their first year with CCHCS (totaling $20,000), should they meet the eligibility criteria." appears once; then later "Additionally, individuals may be eligible to receive a monthly recruitment and retention differential during their first year with CCHCS (totaling $5,000), should they meet the eligibility criteria." That's not duplicate because amounts differ. So we keep both.
We need to remove application instructions like "Please indicate JC-521239 and position number on your application", "Please Note: Main communication for this position will be through email. Please ensure you have a valid email address on your application." Those are application instructions; we should remove them. However location info maybe still relevant as about the role. The JC-521239 and position number are application instructions; we can drop them.
We must preserve ALL substantive information; so we keep location description, facility description, vision, mission, statements about CDCR/CCHCS, job description/duties, PLP info, benefits, eligibility exam, etc.
We must not create sections with filler text. So we need to ensure each heading has substantive content.
Let's craft:
About the role
Located at CSP-SACRAMENTO (SAC) in REPRESA, CA (Sacramento County), adjacent to Old Folsom Prison, California State Prison - Sacramento is a licensed health care facility providing 24/7 patient services. The surrounding city of Folsom offers family‑friendly amenities, nationally recognized schools, recreation, dining, shopping, and access to hiking trails near the American River and Folsom Lake, with easy weekend getaways to Lake Tahoe or San Francisco.
The department’s Vision is to enhance public safety and promote successful community reintegration through education, treatment and active participation in rehabilitative and restorative justice programs. Its Mission is to facilitate the successful reintegration of individuals in its care back to their communities equipped to be drug‑free, healthy, and employable members of society by providing education, treatment, rehabilitative, and restorative justice programs in a safe and humane environment. CDCR and CCHCS aim to transform the correctional landscape into safer, more professional, and more fulfilling workplaces for employees, the incarcerated population, and supervised communities through systemwide improvements grounded in proven and emerging practices.
That seems substantive.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the clinical systems expert and provide psychological consultation relating to the institution’s health care performance management programs and processes.
- Advise institution executives.
- Act as a liaison with the Statewide Quality Officer and Quality Management Section staff, statewide executives in various disciplines, other Institution Chief Quality Officers (CQO), and other stakeholder groups as appropriate.
We could also include the PLP info? That's about pay/benefits, not responsibilities.
Requirements
- Must first take and pass the SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST, CORRECTIONAL FACILITY (SPECIALIST) examination to obtain list eligibility before applying.
We could also include that the position is under general direction of Chief Psychologist or Senior Psychologist, CF (Supervisor) but that's more about reporting; could be responsibilities.
We could add a Qualifications section if there are any explicit qualifications like licensure? Not mentioned. So omit.
Benefits
- Recruitment and Retention Bonus may be available for clinicians newly hired with California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS).
- Eligible individuals may receive a $10,000 one‑time recruitment and retention stipend (must remain employed with CCHCS for six months).
- Eligible individuals may receive a monthly recruitment and retention differential during the first year with CCHCS totaling $20,000.
- Eligible individuals may receive a monthly recruitment and retention differential during the first year with CCHCS totaling $5,000.
- CDCR/CCHCS employees may be eligible for a $5,000 referral bonus if selected for hire and remain employed with CCHCS for 90 days (referral questionnaire required).
We also have PLP 2025 info: base salary reduced by 3% and 5 PLP 2025 leave credits monthly through June 2027. This is a pay/benefit detail but not a specific salary; could be included in Benefits as well. The rule: we should not create Pay section unless posting actually states them. This is about salary reduction and leave credits; it's a pay/benefit detail. Could be placed in Benefits. Let's add:
- Effective July 1, 2025, the Personal Leave Program 2025 (PLP 2025) reduces base salary by 3 % and provides 5 PLP 2025 leave credits monthly through June 2027.
We need to ensure we don't create Pay section.
We should not include Schedule.
Now check for any duplicated lines: we have removed duplicated stipend line; we kept one. Good.
We have not included application instructions like email, JC-521239, position number. Good.
We have not included EEO boilerplate.
We have not included duty statement reference (just mention that additional info in Duty Statement; that's not substantive? It's a reference; we could keep as part of Requirements? It's not a requirement; it's a pointer. Might be considered minor metadata; we could drop. But we could keep as part of About the role? It's not essential. I'd drop it.
Now ensure we haven't invented
for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading for Senior Psychologist. We must not put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; we can fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. The location and JC-521239 and position number are minor metadata; we can include in a short
maybe under About the role. We must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So remove Equal Opportunity Employer paragraph. Also remove duplicated lines? There's duplicated stipend/differential lines; we must preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot remove duplicates if they are substantive? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should deduplicate identical lines. The duplicated lines: "Please note: Individuals may be eligible to receive a $10,000 one-time recruitment and retention stipend should they meet the eligibility criteria, including but not limited to remaining employed with CCHCS for six months." appears twice. Also "Additionally, individuals may be eligible to receive a monthly recruitment and retention differential during their first year with CCHCS (totaling $20,000), should they meet the eligibility criteria." appears once; then later "Additionally, individuals may be eligible to receive a monthly recruitment and retention differential during their first year with CCHCS (totaling $5,000), should they meet the eligibility criteria." That's not duplicate because amounts differ. So we keep both. We need to remove application instructions like "Please indicate JC-521239 and position number on your application", "Please Note: Main communication for this position will be through email. Please ensure you have a valid email address on your application." Those are application instructions; we should remove them. However location info maybe still relevant as about the role. The JC-521239 and position number are application instructions; we can drop them. We must preserve ALL substantive information; so we keep location description, facility description, vision, mission, statements about CDCR/CCHCS, job description/duties, PLP info, benefits, eligibility exam, etc. We must not create sections with filler text. So we need to ensure each heading has substantive content. Let's craft:
About the role
Located at CSP-SACRAMENTO (SAC) in REPRESA, CA (Sacramento County), adjacent to Old Folsom Prison, California State Prison - Sacramento is a licensed health care facility providing 24/7 patient services. The surrounding city of Folsom offers family‑friendly amenities, nationally recognized schools, recreation, dining, shopping, and access to hiking trails near the American River and Folsom Lake, with easy weekend getaways to Lake Tahoe or San Francisco.
The department’s Vision is to enhance public safety and promote successful community reintegration through education, treatment and active participation in rehabilitative and restorative justice programs. Its Mission is to facilitate the successful reintegration of individuals in its care back to their communities equipped to be drug‑free, healthy, and employable members of society by providing education, treatment, rehabilitative, and restorative justice programs in a safe and humane environment. CDCR and CCHCS aim to transform the correctional landscape into safer, more professional, and more fulfilling workplaces for employees, the incarcerated population, and supervised communities through systemwide improvements grounded in proven and emerging practices.
That seems substantive.Responsibilities
- Serve as the clinical systems expert and provide psychological consultation relating to the institution’s health care performance management programs and processes.
- Advise institution executives.
- Act as a liaison with the Statewide Quality Officer and Quality Management Section staff, statewide executives in various disciplines, other Institution Chief Quality Officers (CQO), and other stakeholder groups as appropriate.
Requirements
- Must first take and pass the SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST, CORRECTIONAL FACILITY (SPECIALIST) examination to obtain list eligibility before applying.
Benefits
- Recruitment and Retention Bonus may be available for clinicians newly hired with California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS).
- Eligible individuals may receive a $10,000 one‑time recruitment and retention stipend (must remain employed with CCHCS for six months).
- Eligible individuals may receive a monthly recruitment and retention differential during the first year with CCHCS totaling $20,000.
- Eligible individuals may receive a monthly recruitment and retention differential during the first year with CCHCS totaling $5,000.
- CDCR/CCHCS employees may be eligible for a $5,000 referral bonus if selected for hire and remain employed with CCHCS for 90 days (referral questionnaire required).