Staff Psychologist - Relocation/Recruitment Incentive and EDRP Approved

About the role

This position is with the Fort Worth Outpatient Clinic. The Primary Purpose of the Position is to serve as a staff psychologist on an interdisciplinary outpatient mental health team, (Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Team (BHIP), in which the employee conducts a variety of outpatient services, including provision of evidence-based psychotherapy and completion of psychological screenings and evaluations aimed at serving the needs of Veterans.

Responsibilities

• Provides a full range of therapeutic interventions for a MH outpatient team including time-limited individual therapy, couples/family therapy, process and time-limited group therapy, and psychoeducation in individual and group format.
• Cognitive and behavioral therapy approaches are used most frequently, with an emphasis on time-limited evidence-based treatments.
• Administers and interprets a wide variety of psychological assessment tools.
• Treats mental disorders and provides adjunctive interventions for treatment of medical disorders, including crisis management.
• Responds to patient crisis situations in a timely manner with the goal of assisting the patient to maintain a positive and effective relationship with the staff, family and other patients.
• Assists in maintaining patient and staff safety in crisis situations.
• Provides suicide risk assessment and safety planning as needed.
• May directly supervise the work of unlicensed psychologists, practicum students, interns, and postdoctoral fellows.
• May provide education seminars for psychology interns and for postdoctoral fellows and may participate in applicant interviews and selection.
• Serves on ad hoc workgroups or committees within the service to address problems and concerns of the profession and service.
• Engages in all team related activities, including attendance of team/program meetings, monthly Psychology staff meetings, and main overall compliance with Psychology peer review procedures.
• Assumes responsibility for independent professional functioning and regularly works with a variety of complex cases within the assigned areas.
• Keeps the supervisor informed of administrative matters, professional activities, significant occurrences, and identifies problem areas that should be brought to the attention of the incumbent's direct supervisor and management.

Qualifications

• Have a doctoral degree in psychology from a graduate program in psychology accredited by the American Psychological Association, the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System, or the Canadian Psychological Association at the time the program was completed.
• 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 CPA accredited doctoral program;
• (b) the specialty in which the applicant is retrained must be consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed.
• Have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally-accredited institution, with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature.
• Have 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.
• Have the equivalent of a one-year supervised internship experience in a site specifically acceptable to the candidate's doctoral program.

Pay

Competitive salary and regular salary increases.

Schedule

Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm