Psychologist (PCMHI) - Overview LocationsBay Pines, FL; Bradenton, FL; Cape Coral, FL; Naples, FL; Palm Harbor, FL; Sarasota, FL Summary You could be part of an important initiative to provide mental health care for our nations Veterans! The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) needs mental health professionals who possess the energy, compassion, and commitment to serve those who serve our Country. Whatever the job title, every position in VA will give you a chance to make a meaningful and personal contribution to the lives of truly special and deserving people

• our Veterans. America's Veterans need you! As a Licensed Provider for the Department of Veterans Affairs, you will practice independently in the provision of psychological services, engage in professional and scientific work which relates to behavior, capacities, personality, interests, emotions and mental disorders, and consulting with peers and supervisors as appropriate. Work Schedule: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, Monday - Friday Selectees will be expected to be available for potential extended hours clinics to meet the Veteran care mission. This co-located, collaborative care (CCC) behavioral health psychologist is administratively aligned within the Mental Health & Behavioral Health Sciences Service, with primary assignment to the Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) program, located within primary care. The CCC PC-MHI psychologist serves as a member of multidisciplinary primary care teams, and delivers brief, consultation-based services to patients, primary care providers, primary care managers, and allied Patient Alliance Care Team (PACT) members. The incumbent is responsible for assuring adequate identification and treatment of a variety of emotional and mental health challenges. The focus is on general service delivery for a wide range of concerns and resolving problems within the primary care service context. Behavioral health visits are brief (generally 20-30 minutes), limited in number (1-6 visits), and are provided in the primary care practice area, structured so that the patient views meeting with the behavioral health provider as a routine primary care service. The psychologist also manages same-day walk-ins and warm-handoffs from primary care providers, and conducts brief, focused assessments, diagnostics, and evidence-based psychotherapies. The PC-MHI Psychologist also provides "on-time, on-target" information to Primary Care Providers and collaboratively makes appropriate care decisions. Duties CCC behavioral health providers function within fast-paced primary care teams and can expect to consult with 8-10 patients per day with the primary goals of assisting PACT members with identification, treatment, and management of mental health and behavioral medicine conditions in the enrolled population. The incumbent demonstrates, or is capable of acquiring, the ability to write clear, concise progress notes, generally ?* to 1 page long, with explicit impression, recommendations, and plan for PCP use. Progress notes document curbside consultation outcomes and all notes are completed within 24-hours. Additional duties involve coordination of care with integrated behavioral health co-located staff and the rest of the Primary Care team. The incumbent functions as a treatment advocate and guide, consultant, counselor and educator while providing integrated health care to outpatients in Primary Care. Other skills, and potential duties, include, but are not limited to: - Provides a full range of psychological assessment services and diagnoses mental disorders and behavioral health conditions. - Provides education to patients, family members and significant others. - Provides comprehensive, evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions, including individual, family and group psychotherapy. - Provides consultation to professional staff within the Veteran Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), and to community providers, concerning clinical assessment findings and appropriate treatment plans for patients. - Develops, implements, and documents the psychotherapeutic treatment plan for an assigned caseload of patients, including prompt completion of clinical reminders. - Functions independently as a member of the VAMC Medical Staff, with full clinical privileges. - Assumes complete professional responsibility for his/her clinical assessment findings, patient care decisions and documentation. - Assists the Service Line Chief, or designee, in the design, development and implementation of clinical programs for a team of treatment providers. - $61,218 $113,428 Job Details Application Open Date 4/3/2018 Application Close Date 4/23/2018 Organization Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration Who May Apply None Status None - More About VA - Financial Disclosure Report: Not required This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment. This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status. This is a random drug testing position. United States Citizenship Required; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health related positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority. Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members. If you are unable to apply online, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application. - Qualifications - Basic Requirements: - United States Citizenship - Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. - English Language Proficiency Requirement - Per VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Chapter 3, Section A, Paragraph 3j: No person will be appointed under authority of 38 U.S.C., chapter 73 or 74, to serve in a direct patient-care capacity in VHA who is not proficient in written and spoken English. - Education Requirement - You must have a doctoral degree in psychology from a graduate program in psychology accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA), the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS), or the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) at the time the program was completed. The specialty area of the degree must be consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed. OR, have a doctoral degree in any area of psychology and, in addition, successfully completed a respecialization program meeting both of the following conditions: a) the respecialization program must be completed in an APA or a CPA accredited doctoral program; and b) the specialty in which you were retrained is consistent with the assignment you are am applying for; OR, have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally-accredited institution, with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature. - Internship Requirement - You must have successfully completed a professional psychology internship training program that was accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed and that is consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed; OR, New VHA psychology internship programs that are in the process of applying for APA accreditation are acceptable in fulfillment of the internship requirement, provided that such programs were sanctioned by the VHA Central Office Program Director for Psychology and the VHA Office of Academic Affiliations at the time that the individual was an intern; OR, VHA facilities that offered full-time, one-year pre-doctoral internships prior to PL 96-151 (pre-1979) are considered to be acceptable in fulfillment of the internship requirement; OR, Applicants who completed an internship that was not accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed may be considered eligible for hire only if they are currently board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in a specialty area that is consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed. (NOTE: Once board certified, the employee is required to maintain board certification). NOTE: Applicants who have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally-accredited institution with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature may fulfill this internship requirement by having the equivalent of a one-year supervised internship experience in a site specifically acceptable to the candidate's doctoral program. If the internship experience is not noted on the applicant's official transcript, the applicant must provide a statement from the doctoral program verifying that the equivalent of a one-year supervised internship experience was completed in a site acceptable to the doctoral program. - Licensure: Candidates must hold a full, current, and unrestricted license to practice psychology at the doctoral level in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Exception: Non-licensed applicants who otherwise meet the eligibility requirements may be given a temporary appointment as a "graduate psychologist" at the GS-11 or GS-12 grade under the authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405 (a)(1)(D) for a period not to exceed two years from the date of employment on the condition that such a psychologist provide care only under the supervision of a psychologist who is licensed. Failure to obtain licensure during that period is justification for termination of the temporary appointment. - Experience: In additional to meeting the basic requirements as stated above, you must have the following: t - GS-11 Level: no additional experience beyond the basic requirement - GS-12 Level: at least 1 full year of experience as a professional psychologist equivalent to the GS-11 level, and are able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and abilities: tt - Knowledge of and ability to apply a wide range of professional psychological treatments or assessment methods to a variety of patient populations. - Ability to design and implement effective treatment strategies. - Ability to incorporate new clinical procedures. - Ability to conduct research activities, such as designing and implementing clinical research projects (staff psychologists with specified research job duties). - Ability to perform basic research tasks of scholarship and research execution within the context of an established research team, including research participant relations, research documentation, data acquisition, maintenance, and collaboration. - GS-13 Level: at least 2 addition years of experience, with at least one year equivalent to the GS-12 level, as a professional psychologist that was obtained through employment as a psychologist or through participating in a supervised post-doctoral psychology training program that demonstrates 1) active professional practice that was paid/non-paid employment and/or 2) a full, current and unrestricted license. To be creditable, the experience must have required the use of knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics associated with current psychology practice: tt - Knowledge of, and ability to apply, professional psychological treatments to a full range of patient populations. - Ability to provide professional advice and consultation in areas related to professional psychology and behavioral health. - Knowledge of clinical research literature.