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Staff Psychologist -Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 43 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 The San Francisco VA Medical Center has an immediate opening for a staff psychologist in the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC) clinic.
- →PRRC is an intensive outpatient program for Veterans with serious mental illness, and the mission is to empower Veterans to build meaningful lives in their communities of choice.
- →The goal of the PRRC is to support Veterans with community inclusion goals by learning skills, strengthening resilience, and utilizing a combination of groups and individual recovery coaching.
- →The PRRC employs a team-based, collaborative approach to the recovery model - a person-centered framework for mental health that views recovery as a personal, ongoing journey toward hope, with an emphasis on an individual's lived experience, strengths, and aspirations, integrating symptom management with personal growth and social participation.
- →The PRRC Psychologist provides clinical care, assessment, and consultation to Veterans with serious mental illness, while also serving in a training and leadership capacity for the Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) training program.
- →This role combines direct clinical service with responsibility for supervising psychology trainees and contributing to program-level clinical leadership.
- →Independently conducts comprehensive psychological and psychosocial assessments to understand the needs of Veterans, their families, and caregivers.
- →Provides individual therapy and facilitates psychoeducational and therapy groups for Veterans with serious mental illness, independently managing an expected caseload.
- →Actively participates in interdisciplinary treatment planning, ensuring Veterans' and families' psychological and psychosocial needs are integrated into care.
- →Accompanies PRRC participants and staff on community integration activities as clinically appropriate.
- →Provides consultation and education to Veterans and families on community resources, advance directives, and VA benefits as they relate to psychological care and recovery.
- →Applies in-depth knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures - including acute, chronic, and traumatic conditions - along with an understanding of common psychiatric medications and their effects and side effects.
- →Demonstrates strong interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills in working with Veterans, families, and community agencies.
- →Provides clinical supervision, training, and mentorship to psychology trainees, ensuring adherence to ethical and professional standards.
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.
Benefits
- ★Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
- ★Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
- ★Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
- ★Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Personality Fit
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