Staff Psychologist (Pain Management Team)
About The Position
The Staff Psychologist is an integral member of the James H. Quillen VAMC mental health team. They provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy, psycho-diagnostic screenings/assessments, mental health intakes, and mental health consultation services. This position serves as the pain psychologist within the Interventional Behavioral Pain Clinic including disciplines such as medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and physical therapy. The psychologist will provide specialized assessment and evidenced-based treatment for chronic pain conditions.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose mental disorders and provides a full range of psycho-diagnostic services, conduct psychological assessments for clinical or administrative purposes, including Compensation and Pension Examinations, as directed by the Section Chief or designated Supervisor.
- Treat mental disorders through a variety of modalities, and provide adjunctive interventions for treatment of medical disorders.
- Provides a full range of therapeutic interventions including: individual, group and family psychotherapy, caregiver stress support, cognitive-behavioral therapy, interpersonal and other forms of evidence based psychotherapy.
- Provides supervision of trainees conducting direct clinical care.
- Consults with medical center staff on a wide variety of patient care issues.
- Remains involved in program evaluation and/or research activities.
- Provides administrative duties including, attending organizational meetings.
- May provide clinical supervision to various disciplines and levels of training, including trainees seeking licensure in psychology.
Benefits
- Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)
- Competitive salary and regular salary increases
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
- Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Administration of Human Resource Programs
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
