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Counseling Psychologist
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers · Posted 64 days ago
About the Role
"The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), through strategic partnerships, prepares the federal law enforcement community to safeguard America's people, property, and institutions." We are a unique inter-agency organization preparing the next generation of law enforcement officers to meet our Nation's most pressing security challenges." Click here to learn more. A recruitment/relocation incentive may be authorized.
What You'll Do
- →Serving as a Counseling Psychologist GS-0180-13 makes you a valuable member of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) team and mission.
- →This position is located in the Organizational Health Division within Mission and Readiness Support Directorate.
- →The primary purpose of this position is to serves as the principal advisor to FLETC management staff on assigned division and enterprise-wide organizational health and counseling programmatic activities.
- →Typical duties include: Providing expertise and demonstrating professional knowledge of current, developing and emerging theories, strategies, technologies, protocols and techniques in rendering services for a wide-variety of mental health concerns, inclusive of but not limited to acute and post- traumatic stress, critical incident response, and work/family related stress.
- →Providing crisis intervention and/or stress management and then determining appropriate level of care for the individual.
- →Adhering to the ethical standards of care set forth by the DHS, FLETC, CSP and Peer Support (PSP) programs.
- →Adhering to the ethical standards set forth by particular area of discipline, which may include but are not limited to the following: American Psychological Association (APA), National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA).
- →Adhering to the professional standards of care when providing counseling services and crisis intervention.
- →Identifying problems within the Peer Support and Crisis Response teams that call for action and advising the Division Chief of suggested revisions to the operational procedures and protocols for Peer Support and Crisis Response Teams.
- →Developing enterprise-wide veterans support services for staff and students with the goal of providing immediate, on-site support and resources to all current military and veteran employees.
- →Identifying and coordinating educational and mentor opportunities.
- →Initiating and developing training programs focusing on primary military and law enforcement stress factors with the goal of preventing individual and organizational stress.
- →Conferring with DHS and FLETC representatives and others concerning the content and development of courses with the purpose of analyzing training needs and follow up on the effects of the Counseling Services /Peer Support Program.
- →Providing support and assistance to FLETC's military and law enforcement peer support network that can provide supportive peer outreach and crisis intervention for staff and students that are law enforcement and military veterans.
Requirements
- ✓Positions with Positive Education: In addition to the qualifications listed above, you must possess the following level of education by the closing date of this announcement: Two full academic years of graduate study directly related to professional work in counseling psychology, or a master's degree directly related to counseling psychology.
- ✓Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications; applicant's resumes and supporting documentation should only reflect education received from schools accredited by such institutions.
- ✓Applicants can verify accreditation at the following Website: https://ope.ed.gov/dapip/#/homeYou must submit a copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) from an accredited institution listing the college/university, degree confirmation date(s) and applicable courses for the position you are applying to.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency (a U.S. private organization's interpretation that such education has been deemed at least equivalent to conventional U.S. education programs) with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For more information regarding evaluation of foreign education for federal employment, please visit the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education webpage on the Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.
Personality Fit
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