Staff Psychologist (PCT/PTSD)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · Albuquerque, NM · 1 mo ago
Healthcare$144/hrFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract sections:
- Summary: description of primary function: "The primary function of the BHCL PTSD Clinical Program (PCT) position in the Outpatient Specialty Section is to serve as a clinician in the PCT who provides diagnostic and psychosocial assessment - consult management and triage - and individual and group psychotherapy in line with programmatic needs. The PCT psychologist will work closely with the Section Chief - PCT team staff - and other Specialty Section staff to ensure that Veteran needs within the section are addressed."
That's about the role. So we can have
. Must preserve all details, not omit.
Let's copy the duties text:
"Provides a full range of psychodiagnostics services including appropriate selection of assessment instruments and methods leading to sound diagnosis and treatment recommendations"
"Provides services based on the results of psychodiagnostics assessment such as intervention development and treatment planning"
"Performs evaluations for veterans with a variety of psychological disorders including substance abuse/dependence - affective disorders - anxiety disorders - psychotic disorders - and personality disorders with additional knowledge in PTSD desired"
"Remains involved in program development - evaluation and/or research activities"
"Provides administrative duties including: Scheduling of Veterans and related issues Returning Veterans' phone calls Report writing Attending organizational meetings Consult triage"
"In addition to outpatient care provided on-site - psychologists must be certified in the provision of telehealth forms of care - including facility-to- facility and home telehealth services"
"Provides a full range of psychodiagnostics services including appropriate selection of assessment instruments and methods leading to sound diagnosis and treatment recommendations" (duplicate)
"Provides services based on the results of psychodiagnostics assessment such as intervention development and treatment planning" (duplicate)
"Provides a full range of PTSD therapeutic interventions including individual - group and evidenced based psychotherapy"
"Provision of evidence-based psychotherapies such as Prolonged Exposure (PE) - Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Motivational Interviewing (Ml) for the purpose of enhancing health behavior change and treatment of psychological problems related to PTSD is a requirement of this position"
"Performs evaluations for veterans with a variety of psychological disorders including substance abuse/dependence - affective disorders - anxiety disorders - psychotic disorders - and personality disorders with additional knowledge in PTSD desired" (duplicate)
"Remains involved in program development - evaluation and/or research activities as requested by administrative supervisor"
"Provides administrative duties including scheduling of Veterans and related issues - returning Veterans' phone calls - report writing - attending organizational meetings - consult triage"
"In addition to outpatient care provided on-site - psychologists must be certified in the provision of telehealth forms of care - including facility-to-facility and home telehealth services"
"Upon approval of the Chief of Staff and Education committee clinicians may apply for a percentage of time spent in formal academic activities related to academic appointments at the University of New Mexico or similar approved institutions"
"Upon approval of the Chief of Staff and Research Service clinicians an additional percentage of time spent in formal research activities may be approved"
We need to deduplicate? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplicated lines are present in the posting; we should not remove them? It says "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove duplicated lines. So we need to deduplicate duties. So we will list each unique duty.
Let's compile unique duties:
1. Provides a full range of psychodiagnostics services including appropriate selection of assessment instruments and methods leading to sound diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
2. Provides services based on the results of psychodiagnostics assessment such as intervention development and treatment planning.
3. Performs evaluations for veterans with a variety of psychological disorders including substance abuse/dependence, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, and personality disorders with additional knowledge in PTSD desired.
4. Remains involved in program development, evaluation and/or research activities.
5. Provides administrative duties including: scheduling of Veterans and related issues, returning Veterans' phone calls, report writing, attending organizational meetings, consult triage.
6. Must be certified in the provision of telehealth forms of care, including facility-to-facility and home telehealth services (in addition to outpatient care provided on-site).
7. Provides a full range of PTSD therapeutic interventions including individual, group, and evidence-based psychotherapy.
8. Provision of evidence-based psychotherapies such as Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) for the purpose of enhancing health behavior change and treatment of psychological problems related to PTSD is a requirement of this position.
9. Remains involved in program development, evaluation and/or research activities as requested by administrative supervisor (similar to #4 but with "as requested". Might be considered distinct; we can keep both or combine? Since it's similar but adds "as requested by administrative supervisor". Might be considered separate nuance. We'll keep as separate bullet.
10. Upon approval of the Chief of Staff and Education committee clinicians may apply for a percentage of time spent in formal academic activities related to academic appointments at the University of New Mexico or similar approved institutions.
11. Upon approval of the Chief of Staff and Research Service clinicians an additional percentage of time spent in formal research activities may be approved.
We could combine #4 and #9 as "Remains involved in program development, evaluation and/or research activities (including as requested by administrative supervisor)". But to preserve detail, maybe keep both but note duplication? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. #4 and #9 are not exact duplicates; #9 adds "as requested by administrative supervisor". So we keep both.
Now Requirements: we need to extract citizenship, language proficiency, education, internship, licensure.
Let's pull the text:
"Basic Requirements United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA PolicyEnglish language proficiency: Psychologists must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with VA Handbook 5005 - Part II - Chapter 3 - section A - paragraph 3jEducation: To be qualified for a GS-0180 Psychologist you must possess 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 - 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 programand -(b) the specialty in which the applicant is retrained must be consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employedOR Have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally accredited institution - with a dissertation primarily psychological in natureInternship Requirement - You must 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 employedOR - 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 internOR - VHA facilities that offered full-time - one-year pre-doctoral intern
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Let's extract sections:
- Summary: description of primary function: "The primary function of the BHCL PTSD Clinical Program (PCT) position in the Outpatient Specialty Section is to serve as a clinician in the PCT who provides diagnostic and psychosocial assessment - consult management and triage - and individual and group psychotherapy in line with programmatic needs. The PCT psychologist will work closely with the Section Chief - PCT team staff - and other Specialty Section staff to ensure that Veteran needs within the section are addressed."
That's about the role. So we can have About the role
with that paragraph.
- Qualifications: big block about basic requirements, education, internship, licensure, grade determinations, KSAs, etc. That's qualifications. Also includes "Basic Requirements", "Education", "Internship Requirement", "Licensure", "Grade Determinations", "Knowledge - Skills and Abilities (KSA's)", "References", "The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-13", "The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is in the range of GS-11 to GS-13". Also "Physical Requirements". That could be separate section maybe "Physical Requirements". But we only have headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can map: "Requirements" could cover basic requirements (citizenship, language, education, internship, licensure). "Qualifications" could cover grade determinations and KSAs? Or we could combine. But we need to follow instruction: use those headings only when posting has real specific content. We have content for Requirements (citizenship, language, education, internship, licensure). We have content for Qualifications (grade determinations, KSAs). We have content for Skills (maybe KSAs are skills). Could also put KSAs under Skills. Responsibilities: duties section. Benefits: there is a block about Parental Leave, Child Care Subsidy, Retirement, Insurance, Total Rewards, Telework, Virtual. Also "Competitive salary and regular salary increases" is Pay. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday etc. So we have Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual specifics.
Thus we will output sections:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... list duties
Requirements
- ... citizenship, language proficiency, education, internship, licensure
Qualifications
- ... grade determinations, KSAs