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The Carl T Hayden VA Medical center provides primary care and specialty health services, including mental health care, audiology and speech, dentistry and oral surgery, low vision and blind rehabilitation, physical therapy, vision care, women's health services, and more.
The Staff Psychologist is assigned to work with the Women Veterans Program and setting; and provide gender-specific behavioral health services to women Veterans and Veterans whose self-identified gender is female (herein referred to as women Veterans). Referrals originate from various clinical settings, including outpatient medicine, mammography, gynecology, mental health, and specialty care services. The psychologist will provide clinical services and develop programming and clinical offerings relevant to specific developmental and diverse needs of the women Veteran population. These may include age-related needs (e.g., menstrual cycles, prenatal, postnatal, infertility, menopause, etc.), sexual/gender-orientation clinical needs (e.g., LBGTQ+-and family planning), and health-based needs (i.e., Mind-Body approaches, holistic health, biofeedback, mindfulness for women). They also will work closely with a multidisciplinary perinatal health treatment team to provide assessment, individual therapy, and group therapy to address perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
Duties of the position include but are not limited to:
- Provides comprehensive, evidence-based psychotherapeutic (EBP) interventions. The psychologist will provide brief assessment for a range of mood disorders and medical conditions, brief individual therapy, and brief group therapy, using protocols such as Problem-Solving Therapy and Motivational Interviewing.
- Develops and implements Evidence-Based Practices for individual and group mental health services for women Veterans experiencing new onset or exacerbation of symptoms secondary to pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, pregnancy loss, menopause, psycho-oncology, and pelvic floor dysfunction or sexual dysfunction typically related to history of trauma.
- Promotes universal mental health screenings across the lifespan of women Veterans and provide psychological risk and behavioral assessments.
- Applies knowledge of behavioral medicine and psychotherapeutic techniques in the assessment and treatment of patients with the goal of assisting patients to partner with the interdisciplinary team in working to diminish, eliminate, or better cope with gender-specific mental health concerns.
Work Schedule: Compressed/flexible work schedule available.
Compressed/Flexible:Available
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): May be authorized to highly qualified candidates
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
Parental Leave: 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.
Child Care Subsidy: 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
. Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Telework: Available to highly qualified candidates with supervisor approval based on the needs of the service.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 0000
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Starting at $123,928 Per Year (GS 13)