Clinical Psychologist

Staff PsychologistThis is an open continuous announcement until September 30, 2026. Qualified applicants will be considered and referred as vacancies become available. The Staff Psychologist is assigned to the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) team in General Mental Health (GMH) services of the Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks (VHSO). The BHIP team provides care to Veterans with a wide variety of mental health symptoms and uses a collaborative care model and a recovery framework to delivery evidence-based treatments to the eligible veteran population. Clinical care focuses on the implementation of Evidence Based Psychotherapy (EBP) as a primary intervention and using Measurement Based Care (MBC) to regularly assess treatment progress and outcomes. Clinical services include clinical assessment, differential diagnosis, utilization of MBC, team decision making for individualized treatment planning, as well as direct delivery of clinical services in individual, group, couples/family, and telehealth formats. The Clinical Psychologist will provide all services in accordance with relevant policies and VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines, with a strong emphasis on delivering EBPs whenever possible and clinically indicated. Duties will include but not limited to:Provides culturally sensitive clinical services for a wide range of mental disorders. This includes identification of at-risk patients and delivery of comprehensive risk assessments and safety planning. This also includes thorough and complete psychodiagnostic assessments of both their own patients and as a consultant to other clinicians.Provides education to patients, family members, and significant others.Provides comprehensive, evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions, including individual, family, and group psychotherapy.Assumes a collaborative role with Veterans and other team members in developing and implementing recovery-oriented treatment plans.Functions on the BHIP team as a consultant, mentor, or other roles as appropriate to promote the team mission.Provides consultation to professional staff within the BHIP team, the CBOC, the Mental Health Service and the larger medical center, as well as to community providers when appropriate.Develops, implements, and documents the individualized treatment plan for an assigned caseload of patients.Complies with national and local performance measures, including timely health care screening and completion of Clinical Reminders in the electronic medical record.Complies with all clinical documentation procedures, including timeliness standards for documentation and proper patient check out procedures.Functions independently as a member of the VHSO's Mental Health Service staff with full clinical privileges. The incumbent assumes complete professional responsibility for their clinical assessment findings, patient care decisions, and documentation.Complies with all measures necessary to maintain current practice capability, including all licensure and credentialing requirements.Performs other clinical duties as assigned by Program Manager, Deputy ACOS for MH, and/or ACOS for MH, provided they are clinically qualified to perform such duties.Work Schedule: Full-time, 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday-Friday, subject to change based on the needs of the service.Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized.EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact View email address on click.appcast.io, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn morePay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade)Paid Time Off: 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)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 $416.66Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VAInsurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)Telework: Available as determined by Agency policy.Virtual: This is not a virtual position.Functional Statement #: 01295F/01296F/01297Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.