Staff Psychologist (PCMHI)
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- Diagnoses mental disorders
- Counsels patients on mental health issues
- Conducts psychological and/or neuropsychological assessments
- Treats mental disorders through various modalities
- Provides adjunctive interventions for medical disorders
- Determines patients' needs for psychological evaluations
- Performs or refers to individual and group psychotherapy
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary treatment teams
- Uses psychological measures to assess cognitive, emotional, personality, and behavioral conditions
- Completes clinical charting and documentation as required
Requirements
Basic Requirements:
- United States Citizenship
- Doctoral degree in psychology from an APA, PCSAS, or CPA accredited program
- Successfully completed a re-specialization program meeting both conditions
- Full, current, and unrestricted license to practice psychology at the doctoral level
- Board certification in a relevant specialty area
Grade Determinations:
- GS-11: No experience beyond the basic requirements
- GS-12: At least one year of experience as a professional psychologist equivalent to GS-11
- GS-13: At least two years of experience as a professional psychologist, with one year equivalent to GS-12
Qualifications
- Knowledge of and ability to apply a wide range of professional psychological treatments or assessment methods
- Knowledge of and ability to apply professional psychological treatments to the full range of patient populations
- Knowledge of clinical research literature
Skills
- Design and implement effective treatment strategies
- Incorporate new clinical procedures
- Conduct research activities, such as designing and implementing clinical research projects
- Perform basic research tasks of scholarship and research execution within the context of an established research team
Benefits
- Competitive salary and regular salary increases
- Paid time off: 37-50 days of annual paid time off per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays)
- May qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual based on prior work experience or military service experience
- Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Recruitment Incentive authorized for highly qualified candidates
- EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive
Pay
Competitive salary and regular salary increases
Schedule
Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm
Benefits
- Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
- VA Careers - Psychologist: https://youtube.com/embed/77qHlLw9Xck
- Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Recruitment Incentive: May be authorized for highly qualified candidates
- EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive
- Contact James Grimm - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance
- Learn more
Recruitment Incentives
- Recruitment Incentive authorized for highly qualified candidates
Qualifications
- Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive
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
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 costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66
Retirement
Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance
- Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care