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Staff Psychologist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in the Mental Health Service, with joint assignment to Outpatient Mental Health and the Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC) Program. The VA HBPC program provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary primary care services in the homes of veterans with complex and chronic, disabling disease. In addition to primary care interventions, HBPC provides palliative care, rehabilitation, disease management, and care coordination services.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Psychologist: https://youtube.com/embed/77qHlLw9Xck Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties: HBPC Psychologist (80%): 2 The Psychologist will be an independently licensed provider with knowledge of behavioral medicine and the implementation and coordination of mental health care in a Home Based Primary Care setting.
- →The Psychologist's primary duties will be psychological assessments, psychosocial assessment, diagnostic evaluations, crises interventions, brief psychotherapy, and care management services.
- →Incumbent has full professional responsibility for determining patients' needs for psychological evaluations, specialized evaluation procedures, diagnostic procedures, individual, group, and specialized proficiencies and techniques.
- →Incumbent personally performs or refers, when appropriate, candidates to individual and group psychotherapy.
- →Having determined the need for psychological intervention, incumbent provides the indicated therapeutic, diagnostic or evaluative intervention, unless such an intervention requires specialized professional expertise for which the incumbent is not privileged to practice in this Medical Center.
- →In such instances, the incumbent will refer such candidates to another psychologist or therapist who is so privileged.
- →The incumbent integrates his/her efforts with those of other professional and administrative personnel who may comprise a multidisciplinary treatment team, maintaining the goal to reciprocally enhance the applied skill of every participating member toward the best available treatment planning for each veteran.
- →Psychological Assessment (15%): The incumbent utilizes psychological measures for which s/he has basic competence.
- →The incumbent response to requests or consults regarding the need for psychological testing, and provides appropriate diagnostic assessment to answer the referral question.
- →The incumbent uses a broad range of psychological measures to assess cognitive, emotional, personality, and behavioral conditions.
- →The incumbent documents his/her assessment adequately and retains all "raw data" in accordance with VA regulations and MHS policy.
- →Professional Participation (5%): The incumbent integrates his/her efforts with those of other professional and administrative personnel who may comprise a multidisciplinary treatment team, maintaining the goal to reciprocally enhance the applied skill of every participating member toward the best available treatment planning for each veteran.
- →The incumbent provides technical and administrative counseling to other mental health staff members and to student trainees, in the areas of therapy, diagnostics and research.
- →Incumbent may also serve as a mental health consultant or resource person to other Medical Center Services.
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.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 392daa4b-fcb1-46c5-94c6-de89f523b470
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