Staff Psychologist (Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program)

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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID etc. Preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate, duplicate lines, application instructions. Include a section only when posting has real specific content for it. Avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". So we need to parse the posting. The posting includes: - Summary: EDRP eligibility info. That's about benefits? It's about Education Debt Reduction Program (student loan repayment). Could be placed under Benefits or maybe a separate section? The instruction says use headings for Benefits, Pay, Schedule etc. So we can put EDRP info under Benefits (since it's a benefit). Also there is mention of Pay: "Competitive salary and regular salary increases When setting pay - a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade)". That's pay info. - Paid Time Off: "37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year)". That's benefits. - Parental Leave: "After 12 months of employment - up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth - adoption - or foster care placement of a child". Benefits. - Child Care Subsidy: "After 60 days of employment - full time employees with a total family income below $144 -000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare co". Benefits. - Work Schedule: "Work Schedule: 8am-4:30pm (Monday-Friday)". That's schedule. - Duties: long list of duties under "Duties Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional ...". Actually there is a heading "Duties Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional". The content includes description of BHIP Psychologist duties. So we need a Responsibilities section (or Duties). Use heading "Responsibilities". Provide list of duties as

  • . - Qualifications: The posting includes "Qualifications" heading with many subpoints: Basic Requirements, Grade Determinations, etc. We need to capture qualifications. Could have a Qualifications section with sub-sections? But we only allowed headings for certain categories: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can put qualifications under Qualifications heading. Within that we can have paragraphs and lists. - Skills: The posting includes "Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities" for each grade level. That's skills/KSAs. Could be placed under Skills heading. - Requirements: Could be separate heading for Requirements (maybe basic requirements like citizenship, language proficiency, licensure, education, internship). The posting includes "Basic Requirements" and then grade determinations etc. Could split: Requirements heading for basic requirements (citizenship, language, licensure, education, internship). Qualifications heading for grade determinations and experience? But the instruction says we can use Requirements heading. We need to decide what to put where to avoid duplication and keep sections meaningful. We have a lot of content; we need to preserve all substantive info. We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must not create sections with filler. So we need to include sections that have actual content. Potential sections: - About the role: maybe a brief summary? The posting starts with "Summary This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)...". That's more about benefit. Could be "About the role" but we already have EDRP under Benefits. Could still have About the role with a short paragraph describing the position: "The Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) Psychologist works primarily in an outpatient general mental health setting..." That's from duties. But that might be better under Responsibilities. We could skip About the role if no specific content besides the summary that is already captured elsewhere. The instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. So we need to see if there is a distinct "About the role" paragraph. The posting begins with "Summary This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program." That's not really about the role; it's about benefit. Then later there is a paragraph describing the role under "Duties Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional". That's more duties. Thus we could have: - Responsibilities (duties) - Requirements (basic requirements: citizenship, language proficiency, licensure, education, internship) - Qualifications (grade determinations, experience, KSAs) - Skills (maybe combine with Qualifications? But we have KSAs under Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities; that could be Skills.) - Benefits (EDRP, PTO, parental leave, childcare subsidy) - Pay (competitive salary, step rate) - Schedule (work schedule) We must avoid duplication. Ensure we capture all info. Let's extract each piece. **Summary / EDRP**: - "This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval - award amount (up to $200 -000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application." Note: there is a typo "$200 -000" likely means $200,000. We'll preserve as written? Probably keep as "$200 -000". But we could keep as "$200,000"? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we should keep exactly as written: "$200 -000". Similarly "$144 -000". We'll keep those. **Basic Requirements** (under Qualifications heading in original): - United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy - English Language Proficiency: Psychologists must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with VA Handbook 5005 - Part II - Chapter 3 - section A - paragraph 3j - Licensure: Hold 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 - Exception: Non-licensed applicants who otherwise meet the eligibility requirements may be given a temporary appointment as a ""graduate psychologist"" at the GS-11 or GS-12 grade under the authority of 38 U.S.C.7405 (c)(2)(B) for a period not to exceed two years from the date of employment on the condition that such a psychologist provide care only under the supervision of a psychologist who is licensed. Failure to obtain licensure during that period is justification for termination of the temporary appointment - 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. For the purpose of meeting this requirement - the term ""specialty area"" refers to the specific specialty areas recognized by the accrediting body and not to specific job duties that might require special skills. Currently - APA accredits doctoral programs in the specialty areas of clinical psychology - counseling psychology - school psychology - or combinations of two or more of those areas. PCSAS accredits doctoral programs in psychological clinical science. CPA accredits doctoral programs in clinical psychology - counseling psychology - clinical neuropsychology - and school psychology. There are no job assignments in VHA that require the skills of a school psychologist therefore - an applicant with a degree in the specialty area of school psychology is not eligible for appointment. Strictly for the purpose of determining eligibility for appointment as a psychologist in VHA - there is no distinction between the specialty areas (with the exception of school psychology) - 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: (a) The re-specialization program must be completed in an APA or a CPA accredited doctoral program and - (b) 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 - 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 - 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) **Grade Determinations** (under Qualifications): - Staff Psychologist - GS-11 Experience: None beyond the basic requirements - Staff Psychologist - GS-12 Experience: At least one year of experience as a professional psychologist equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11). Psychologists who are not licensed must practice under the supervision of a licensed psychologist but with less intense supervision than at the GS-11 grade level - Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities (for GS-12): In addition to the experience above - the candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs: 1Knowledge of and ability to apply a wide range of professional psychological treatments or assessment methods to a variety of patient populations 2Ability to design and implement effective treatment strategies 3Ability to incorporate new clinical procedures 4Ability to conduct research activities - such as designing and implementing clinical research projects (staff psychologists with specified research job duties) 5Ability to perform basic research tasks of scholarship and research execution within the context of an established research team - including research participant relations - research documentation