Lead Psychologist - PT

Lead Psychologist – Federal Occupational Health (FOH) – Rockville, MD (Hybrid schedule, Part‑Time). Candidates must be located in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. Duties and Responsibilities as Listed in the Contract The Lead Psychologist provides leadership, oversight, and management for psychological pre‑placement and case review services. The Lead Psychologist ensures quality of services, determinations, and recommendations, including for employees in law enforcement and other safety‑sensitive positions such as federal agents and candidates. The FOH Lead Psychologist ensures that FOH psychologists and Reviewing Medical Officers (RMOs) understand customer agency specific security program requirements and federal regulations and can apply these program requirements to all interactions with customer agency employees. Job Specific Duties and Responsibilities Clinical – Quality and Safety Develop documents and participate in designated national healthcare quality TJC accreditation processes. Establish and participate in continuous quality improvement assessments for all psychological examination types conducted for FOH. Demonstrate a strong level of technical expertise regarding psychological services required in an occupational healthcare setting and provide consultation (and psychological assessments when required) of the highest caliber. Possess strong technical knowledge regarding occupational federal safety and health regulations regarding psychological issues. Promote and ensure quality of psychological assessment results, particularly for difficult cases. Produce quality products in a short timeframe, predetermined by the type of psychological assessment to be completed. Promote improvement‑oriented ideas. Demonstrate a high level of professional conduct. Service Operations Provides ongoing intellectual guidance for psychological assessment activities that is relevant for completing cases that require psychological assessments. Responsible for ensuring that psychological assessments are distributed to psychologists with the appropriate education, skill, and training to perform the psychological assessment. Performs a mixture of administrative, clinical, and consultant duties depending on the specific behavioral health case requirements. Provides consultation with customer agency management on psychological program needs and requirements as well as how to develop work‑relevant psychological programs. Provides acute emergency consultation on performing federally regulated and agency‑mandated psychological assessments (e.g. pre‑employment, fitness for duty, security clearance, etc.). May be required to conduct psychological assessments and render a professional opinion as it relates to work clearances or recommendations consistent with the examination findings and established psychological standards. Provides expert psychological advice and consultation on psychological matters in the workplace in accordance with accepted psychological standards of care and customary industry practices to FOH staff and the Federal agencies that FOH serves. Develops FOH policy and guidelines for work‑related psychological assessments. Provides expert witness testimony services regarding psychological recommendations on cases in which psychological consultation is provided to a federal agency, when requested. Administers and interprets psychological tests in a manner that minimizes construct‑irrelevant variance and promotes valid score interpretations for the intended assessment of all federal agency applicants and employees. Consults and opines on position suitability for customer agency applicants and employees based on the psychological interview and test results as they relate to the job task analysis as well as the psychological and medical standards provided by customer agency. Consults with psychiatrists as needed; and, Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to customer agencies regarding their psychological programs, when requested. Administrative (Business/Management) Procurement Advises FOH medical leadership about customer requests to change requirements for existing psychological business. Make recommendations for improving psychological assessment case review processes that will maximize the effective and efficient execution of agency service requests. Ensure that appropriate standardized Work Orders (later panels) for psychological case review are used to support IAAs and SOWs. Assist service area support and business operations teams with setting up new agreements and editing exam work orders. Develop processes for implementing new business for psychological assessments. Cost Recovery Submit monthly billing in the required format and by the specified deadline, as requested. Staffing and Reporting Relationships Responsible for coordinating with CORs to ensure that qualified psychologists at levels perform psychological assessments in stipulated timeframes according to agreements with FOH customer agencies. Responsible for ensuring that psychologists who perform psychological assessments staff and Reviewing Medical Officers are oriented according to standard operating procedure (SOP) to perform independently assigned psychological case reviews. Train psychologists, behavioral health providers, and RMOs to perform various examination types of psychological evaluations when requested. Technology Participate in the implementation of electronic health records systems. Customer Service Supports the psychological consultative needs for one (1) or more federal agencies. Demonstrates the ability to work and communicate effectively, particularly in high stress situations. Demonstrates the ability to convey expert psychological opinions and advice using excellent communication skills. These communications will be through written communication primarily. Establishes procedures and processes for psychologists to notify a customer agency immediately when a customer agency employee (federal agent, federal agent candidate, or federal employee) fails the psychological component of the psychological standards or if the psychologist has any reason to believe that the employee is not able to perform their job in a safe, secure reliable manner. Interfaces with other customer agency psychologists by providing advice and training on behavioral health related issues such as new evaluation instruments, forms, etc. Metrics Responsible for analyzing (at least monthly) appropriate data and making recommendations to maintain adequate staff to perform psychological assessment cases. Develop, monitor quarterly, and review annually performance improvement initiatives for psychological assessment programs and use metrics for continuous quality improvement. Required Skills Candidates must be highly organized and be able to coordinate multiple staff with varying backgrounds using administrative processes to provide work‑related behavioral health services. As demonstrated through experience on CV/resume, must possess excellent written and oral communication skills and have experience in dealing with various size organizations representing widely divergent backgrounds, points of view, and levels of authority (i.e. labor union and management issues relating to FOH). Must possess the necessary skills to evaluate and analyze data to create complex reports and dashboards (synopsis of essential metrics). Good problem‑solving and decision‑making skills are an asset. Must have the ability to motivate others and monitor work performed by psychologists so that it is completed on time and within budget and meets high quality standards. Supports FOH leadership recommendations. Incumbent must be proficient using Microsoft applications, basic computer and website use. Required Experience Minimum Qualifications: Doctoral degree in Psychology, appropriate internship and residency, along with a current license to practice, with five (5) years of independent practice experience in clinical or forensic psychology, preferably federal government setting. Must possess expert understanding of federal safety and health regulations, including expertise in conducting fitness for duty, pre‑employment, and security clearance evaluations and providing guidance with behavioral health ADA requests. Must possess or be capable of obtaining a Top‑Secret Security Clearance. Disclaimer The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. 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