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Staff Psychologist - Neuropsychologist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 8 days ago
About the Role
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional This position is located at the Chillicothe Veterans Affairs Medical Center, providing Psychological Services in support of the Mental Health Care Line.
- →The incumbent provides professional consultation pertaining to human behavior, determining the reasons for that behavior and predicting and/or modifying the behavior.
- →The incumbent works individually or as a member of a multi disciplinary treatment team to provide recommendations, and/or treatment plans concerning psychological and neuropsychological assessment and intervention.
- →Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: Performs psychological and neuropsychological assessment, evaluation and treatment of patients with problems of cognitive deficits, personality, emotional adjustment or mental illness.
- →Performs psychotherapy with patients, either through individual sessions or through group therapy sessions.
- →Uses therapeutic techniques.
- →Performs neuropsychological testing, clinical interviews, and observation, assesses intelligence, behavior and personality variables.
- →Plays a major role in differential diagnosis of functional and organic disorders.
- →Administers a wide variety of group and individual psychological tests including neuropsychological instruments.
- →Administers and interprets neuropsychological test batteries.
- →Provides advice to other staff professionals in an attempt to promote and preserve a therapeutic environment for individual patients.
- →Provides advice regarding appropriate staff responses toward a patient or specific environmental factors that will stimulate more self reliance, reduce anxiety or achieve more socially adaptable behavior patterns.
- →Determines when reassessment is appropriate and adjusts treatment plan accordingly.
- →Serves as expert psychological resource for the multidisciplinary team and recommends adjustments to other professional staff's relationship with patients or devises programs that employ new or unique techniques to ensure a therapeutic environment.
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
Job ID: 40d695dd-9e87-4d84-a546-c654cd0fb13a
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