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Staff Psychologist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 41 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
- →This is an Open Continuous Announcement Until September 17, 2026.
- →Qualified applicants will be referred every other week starting August 13, 2026, until closing of announcement or until position is filled.
- →VA Careers - Psychologist: https://youtube.com/embed/77qHlLw9Xck The staff psychologist works in the PTSD Firm in the Mental Health Care Line.
- →The psychologist addresses the specialty mental health issues involving PTSD and Anxiety Disorders of Veterans presenting for care in the PTSD Firm under the supervision of a licensed psychologist.
- →Services provided by the staff psychologist will include assessment, individual, group, couples, and family psychotherapy.
- →Evidence-based trauma treatments include Prolonged Exposure Treatment, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Written Exposure Treatment, and EMDR, among others.
- →Other Duties Listed: Provides a full range of psychological interventions to patients, including individual, couples/family, and group therapy.
- →Interventions will address broad mental health conditions, although the central focus will be specialized PTSD and Anxiety Disorder treatments.
- →Works as a key team member to promote, create, and maintain a psychotherapeutic atmosphere among the staff.
- →Educates and trains staff around mental health issues and treatments, recovery-oriented care, boundaries, ethics.
- →Works as a key team member to promote, create, and maintain a psychotherapeutic atmosphere among the staff.
- →Presents informed reports or educates multi-disciplinary teams on the use of newly proven or evidence-based intervention techniques.
- →Stays current with assessment and therapy techniques by reviewing and/or participating in research, and by promoting, initiating, assisting or engaging in program evaluation and/or other basic and applied research activities.
- →Within the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team (PCT), screens new referrals and coordinates appropriate referrals.
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 evaluation/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: 980c4a87-3f49-46b2-9fea-9a3ed52a9f73
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