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Staff Psychologist (PRRC)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
The VA Long Beach Healthcare System is recruiting for a full-time Staff Psychologist assigned and reporting directly to the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC) Program Manager within the Mental Health Healthcare Group located at the Villages at Cabrillo.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Mental Health Professionals: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOMintJXa3Y This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program.
- →You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment.
- →Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application.
- →Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.
- →Contact VHA.ELRSProgramSupport@va.gov for questions/assistance.
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Provides a full range of psychological services to Veterans enrolled in the PRRC, including diagnostic assessment, clinical interviewing, psychological evaluation, risk assessment, recovery-oriented treatment planning, and evidence-based intervention.
- →Conducts psychosocial and recovery-focused assessments to identify Veterans' strengths, needs, preferences, barriers, and goals related to mental health recovery, community integration, independent living, social functioning, education, employment, wellness, and quality of life.
- →Develops and updates individualized recovery plans in collaboration with Veterans, family members or supports when appropriate, and the interdisciplinary treatment team.
- →Provides individual and group psychotherapy, psychoeducation, skills training, and psychosocial rehabilitation interventions consistent with VA policy, professional standards, and the needs of Veterans with serious mental illness.
- →Facilitates PRRC groups and classes that may address coping skills, symptom management, emotional regulation, illness management and recovery, relapse prevention, interpersonal effectiveness, social skills, community integration, health and wellness, motivation, and recovery maintenance.
- →Uses evidence-based and recovery-oriented approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, acceptance- and mindfulness-based strategies, behavioral activation, problem-solving approaches, and other clinically appropriate interventions.
- →Provides clinical services through face-to-face care, VA-approved telehealth modalities, and other authorized care delivery formats as appropriate for the Veteran's needs and program operations.
- →Participates as an active member of the interdisciplinary PRRC team, including team meetings, treatment planning conferences, case consultation, huddles, discharge planning, and coordination of transitions in care.
- →Coordinates care with psychiatry, social work, nursing, peer support, vocational rehabilitation, substance use treatment, primary care, inpatient mental health, residential programs, homeless programs, specialty mental health clinics, and community resources as clinically indicated.
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 dentification 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: 5b64eb9e-da1c-4b0d-8c0b-44add8f1f303
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