Staff Psychologist - Primary Care Mental Health Integration

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This is an open continuous announcement.

Candidates will be referred to the hiring official every week until the position is filled.

Recruitment/Relocation incentives may be authorized to highly qualified candidates.

Provides a full range of diagnostic and evaluation services appropriate to the primary care setting - especially in the areas of general psychological evaluation of emotional and behavioral problems - chronic disease management - and suicide assessment.

• Provides a full range of psychological interventions consistent with training and expertise - with special emphasis on brief and evidenced-based interventions found to be effective in primary care setting - including but not limited to: CBT - CBT-Chronic Pain - CBT-Insomnia - Motivational Interviewing - and Problem Solving Training.
• Facilitates patient and family education appropriate to the primary care setting and the specific presenting mental or behavioral health issues.
• Provides consultation services to support PCP decision-making - building on PCP interventions and improving PCP-patient working relationships.
• Routinely conducts functional assessments and brief assessments and will triage/refer to specialty care services as appropriate.
• Ensures that all clinical work is documented accurately and in a timely fashion - consistent with the MHSL and facility expectations and policies.
• Participates fully in peer review and clinical pertinence review to ensure the quality of professional psychology services provided in the organization.
• Responsible for identification of patient problems requiring consultation with other multi-disciplinary medical center staff and making appropriate referrals.
• Fully accountable for practice - including entering patient visits - measuring outcomes to interventions - and meeting productivity standards.
• If licensed - performs all clinical functions independently while providing guidance and/or supervision to others.
• If unlicensed - the individual practices under the close supervision of a licensed psychologist - and the supervised experience must meet the supervision standards for psychology licensure.

All other duties as assigned.

Duties

• Work Schedule: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm - Monday to Friday

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

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 per year)

Contact Information

• Contact Kristina Hibbard - kristina.hibbard@va.gov - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance
• Learn more about EDRP