The incumbent serves as a full-time, fully licensed staff psychologist in the Psychology Section within the VA Illiana Health Care System's Mental Health Service Line. The incumbent provides direct care to Veteran patients and is co-located within primary care. Clinical services are provided as members of multidisciplinary primary care teams and include brief consultation-based services to veterans, primary care providers, and Patient Alliance Care Team (PACT) members.
Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Provides a full range of diagnostic and evaluation services appropriate to the primary care setting, especially in the areas of general psychological evaluation of emotional and behavioral problems, chronic disease management, and suicide assessment.
Provides a full range of psychological interventions consistent with training and expertise, with special emphasis on brief and evidenced-based interventions found to be effective in primary care setting, including but not limited to: CBT, CBT-Chronic Pain, CBT-Insomnia, Motivational Interviewing, and Problem-Solving Training. Facilitates patient and family education appropriate to the primary care setting and the specific presenting mental or behavioral health issues.
Provides consultation services to support PCP decision-making, building PCP interventions and improving PCP-patient working relationships. Provides interventions with a focus on allowing patients to remain with their Primary Care Provider (PCP) for the full range of their health care needs to the extent that this is clinically appropriate. Routinely conducts functional assessments and brief assessments and will triage/refer to specialty care services as appropriate.
Provides same day access. Ensure that all clinical work is documented accurately and in a timely fashion, consistent with the MHSL and facility expectations and policies. Participates fully in peer review and clinical pertinence review to ensure the quality of professional psychology services provided in the organization.
Responsible for identification of patient problems requiring consultation with other multi-disciplinary medical center staff and making appropriate referrals. Fully accountable for practice, including entering patient visits, measuring outcomes to interventions, and meeting productivity standards. If licensed, performs all clinical functions independently while providing guidance and/or supervision to others.
If unlicensed, the individual practices under the close supervision of a licensed psychologist, and the supervised experience must meet the supervision standards for psychology licensure. All other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday Compressed/Flexible: Not available. Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized.
Pay: 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) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience. 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: Authorized. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 07638F, 07639F, 07640F
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Lyndsay.Thomas@va.gov · 217-554-3145
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $98799 – $183063/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
This position requires a Other security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-11-30.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
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