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Psychology Program Manager - Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 40 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent serves as Program Manager for Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) and as Primary Care Supervisory Psychologist at the Washington DC VA Medical Center (DC VAMC). They serve as External Program Facilitator for the VHA Office of Mental Health Operations (OMHO) reporting directly to that office leadership, and the DC VAMC Point of Contact for PCMHI reporting directly to the VISN 5 Mental Health Lead.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Functions as a member of the mental health leadership team collaborating with multiple service lines, disciplines, and frontline clinicians, exercising wide latitude and independent judgement for resource allocation, program design, and quality control.
- →Maintains oversight and responsibility for the professional practice of all staff serving within the PCMHI section, including services conducted by trainees, consultants, and paraprofessional staff.
- →Development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure goal attainment, patient tracking, safety assessment, and data storage/security, and use of data for research.
- →Manages patient complaints and compliments.
- →Keeps staff, Medicine Service and MHSL leadership informed.
- →Direct administrative and professional supervision of all Psychologists within the Primary Care Mental Health Integration Program.
- →Direct administrative supervision of subordinate PCMHI social workers, psychiatrists registered nurses and other designated staff.
- →Resolves staff conflicts and internal/external customer complaints at the lowest possible levels.
- →Consults with and serves as a resource for other professional staff concerning the need for provision and development of integrated services.
- →Makes decisions exercising wide latitude and independent judgment regarding resource allocation, program design, and quality control.
- →Leads coordination with Primary Care and Nursing leadership to provide specific training, guidance, and mentoring of Primary Care Nurses and others to facilitate effective coaching (i.e., healthy lifestyle coaching to support patient self-management).
- →Oversees the PACT Interprofessional Training Program (Psychology, Social Work, Psychiatry) including coordinating selection, supervision of trainees, training assignments, didactics and trainee performance evaluation.
- →Develops and/or makes available relevant education and training programs for all Primary Care and other Service Line providers to ensure that culturally competent care is provided.
- →Provides a full range of psycho-diagnostic services including psychological assessment.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
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