- Position Title
- Clinical Psychologist
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBSV-12668680-25-TP Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Wednesday, June 18, 2025 to Monday, June 30, 2025
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
Preferences
1.
Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
Your resume must be submitted in English and include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
- Please be aware that your answers will be verified against information provided on your resume. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all of the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
Assessment 1
Applicants must meet the basic requirements in order to tentatively qualify for this position.
1.
Do you possess a doctoral degree 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.)
2.
Do you have a doctoral degree in any area of psychology and, in addition, successfully complete a respecialization program (including documentation of an approved internship completed as part of the respecialization program) meeting both of the following conditions:(a) the respecialization program must be completed in an APA or a CPA accredited doctoral program; and (b) the specialty in which the applicant is retrained must be consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed.
3.
Do you have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally-accredited institution, with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature?
4.
Have you successfully completed a professional psychology internship training program that was accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed that is consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed?
5.
Have you completed a New VHA psychology internship program that is in the process of applying for APA accreditation?
6.
Have you completed a psychology internship program with a VHA facility that offered full-time, one-year pre-doctoral internships prior to PL 96-151 (pre-1979)
7.
Are you an applicant who completed a psychology internship that was not accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed, however, are currently board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in a specialty area that is consistent with the assignment for which you are to be employed. (NOTE: Once board certified, the employee is required to maintain board certification.)
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
8.
Do you have a have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally-accredited institution with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature with the equivalent of a one-year supervised internship experience in a site specifically acceptable to the candidate's doctoral program.
9.
Do you hold a full, current, and unrestricted license to practice psychology at the doctoral level in a State, Territory, Commonwealth of the United States (e.g., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia.
10.
Are you a non-licensed Psychologist that otherwise meets eligibility requirements and are willing to accept a temporary appointment as a "graduate psychologist" at the GS-11 or GS-12 grade for a period not to exceed two years from the date of employment?
11.
Do you have at least 1 full year of experience as a professional psychologist equivalent to the GS-11 level and are able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and abilities:
-. Knowledge of and ability to apply a wide range of professional psychological treatments or assessment methods to a variety of patient
populations.
-. Ability to design and implement effective treatment strategies.
-. Ability to incorporate new clinical procedures.
-. Ability to conduct research activities, such as designing and implementing clinical research projects (staff psychologists with specified research
job duties).
-. Ability to perform basic research tasks of scholarship and research execution within the context of an established research team, including
research participant relations, research documentation, data acquisition, maintenance, and collaboration.
-. Knowledge of and ability to apply a wide range of professional psychological treatments or assessment methods to a variety of patient
populations.
-. Ability to design and implement effective treatment strategies.
-. Ability to incorporate new clinical procedures.
-. Ability to conduct research activities, such as designing and implementing clinical research projects (staff psychologists with specified research
job duties).
-. Ability to perform basic research tasks of scholarship and research execution within the context of an established research team, including
research participant relations, research documentation, data acquisition, maintenance, and collaboration.
12.
Do you have At least two years of experience as a professional psychologist, with at least one year equivalent to the GS-12 grade level and are able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and abilities:
-. Knowledge of, and ability to apply, professional psychological treatments to a full range of patient populations.
-. Ability to provide professional advice and consultation in areas related to professional psychology and behavioral health.
-. Knowledge of clinical research literature.
-. Knowledge of, and ability to apply, professional psychological treatments to a full range of patient populations.
-. Ability to provide professional advice and consultation in areas related to professional psychology and behavioral health.
-. Knowledge of clinical research literature.