Staff Psychologist

The position is located at the Reentry and Sanctions Center (RSC), a 24 hour, treatment readiness, facility. The incumbent conducts intakes, completes evaluations, facilitates evidence-based groups, and provides the full range of assessment and counseling services to offenders/defendants with confirmed co-occurring disorders.

Qualifications:

Education: 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. For the purpose of meeting this requirement, the term "specialty area" refers to the specific specialty areas recognized by the accrediting body and not to specific job duties that might require special skills. Currently, APA accredits doctoral programs in the specialty areas of clinical psychology, counseling psychology, school psychology, or combinations of two or more of those areas. PCSAS accredits doctoral programs in psychological clinical science. CPA accredits doctoral programs in clinical psychology, counseling psychology, clinical neuropsychology, and school psychology.

Internship Requirement: 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.

Licensure: 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.

MUST PROVIDE TRANSCRIPTS AND CURRENT LICENSURES

ADDITIONAL EXPERENCE REQUIREMENTS: In addition to meeting the basic entry qualification requirements, applicants must have had one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-12. Specialized experience is experience which is in or related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the specific knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position as Staff Psychologist. The candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs:

1. Professional doctorate level knowledge and experience with providing a wide range of psychological services, including evidence based group and individual therapy, assessment as well as diagnostic services to justice-involved individuals with co-occurring disorders.

2. Knowledge and skills in administering, scoring and interpreting diagnostic assessments and evaluation tools (e.g., Wide Range Achievement Test-5 (WRAT5), Test of Nonverbal Intelligence-4 (TONI-4), American Society of Addiction Medicine criteria (ASAM), Historical Clinical Risk Management-20 (HCR-20), Violence Risk Scale (VRS), Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R), Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), etc.).

3. Ability to assess the offenders'/defendants' criminogenic risks, needs, and barriers to re-entry as well as develop a response that includes the best level of intervention to reduce the likelihood of recidivism.

4. Ability to communicate orally with offenders/defendants from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, educational, and socio-economic levels to conduct interviews and to present information.

Preferred Experience: Inpatient Mental Health Experience

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Responsibilities:

The Staff Psychologist functions as part of an interdisciplinary team and is responsible for diagnosis of co-occurring disorders, conducting psychological assessments, providing psychotherapy through a variety of modalities and providing adjunctive interventions for the treatment of a spectrum of disorders along the continuum of care.

Uses professional doctorate level knowledge and experience to screen, assess, interpret findings, diagnose, write reports, and treat a variety of psychiatric disorders with an emphasis on the application of time-limited, evidence-based approaches to justice-involved individuals with co-occurring disorders.

Completes an individualized, interdisciplinary treatment plan/psychological report, with goals developed through collaboration with the resident and with an emphasis on functional outcomes.

Functions collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to include the community supervision officer to identify resident's needs, motivation, barriers to re-entry and develops a treatment plan and discharge summary upon program completion.

Consults with both internal and external stakeholders to timely identify risks, and address concerns.

Coordinates and conducts in-service trainings for both clinical and non-clinical staff, as well as external stakeholders, annually or as determined.

Adapts protocols to manage crises and resolves complex problems that arise in managing concerns for a wide range of social service program participants. Handles all aspects of case management for assigned caseload.

Attends interdisciplinary team meetings, weekly or more frequently as indicated.

Drafts written work products and uploads documents to the Supervision and Management Automated Record Tracking (SMART) system.