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This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application. Learn more Psychology Program Manager meets on a regular basis with the matrix supervisors and AO's for status updates on programmatic changes, alterations to clinic staff schedules, review clinical demands and requests and ensure adequate coverage of clinic during holidays and other seasonal demands. Complete OPPE's, FPPE's for new and existing staff privileges. 3. Complete the Mid-year and Annual Performance Evaluations for staff members. Approve leave requests, review RVU productivity reports for supervisees, and supervise graduate psychologists. Integrated, patient-centered mental health services and consultation for patients and staff within the medical center, specialty clinics and satellite clinics (via telemedicine); Expert clinical consultation for various disciplines (primary Care, specialty mental health, specialty medicine) and various levels of training (MD, RN, LVN, etc.); Immediate, onsite, targeted assessment and evaluation, clinical triage, diagnosis, risk assessment, and evidence-based intervention for all veterans; Psychological intervention for full spectrum of mental and behavioral health problems. Individual, group, couples, and family counseling and psychotherapy; Patient/family education, clinical supervision/teaching of treatment staff and trainees of various disciplines. May hold faculty appointment at medical school and affiliation with Psychology Service Training Committee as a supervisor or member as needed. Incumbent prepares and teaches seminars/workshops for STVHCS trainees on topics within the area of behavioral health and general mental health care. Incumbent may choose to conduct approved psychological research that supports the mission of STVHCS alone or in collaboration with other professionals in STVHCS or affiliated academic institutions. Incumbent serves as a mentor for junior staff. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 7:30am - 4:00pm, Nights/Weekends/Holidays Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 00000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized EDRP Authorized: Contact VISN17EDRP2@va.gov., the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. Education (1) Have a doctoral degree in psychology 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. For the purpose of meeting this requirement, the term "specialty area" refers to the specific specialty areas recognized by the accrediting body and not to specific job duties that might require special skills. Currently, APA accredits doctoral programs in the specialty areas of clinical psychology, counseling psychology, school psychology, or combinations of two or more of those areas. PCSAS accredits doctoral programs in psychological clinical science. CPA accredits doctoral programs in clinical psychology, counseling psychology, clinical neuropsychology, and school psychology. There are no job assignments in VHA that require the skills of a school psychologist; therefore, an applicant with a degree in the specialty area of school psychology is not eligible for appointment. Strictly for the purpose of determining eligibility for appointment as a psychologist in VHA, there is no distinction between the specialty areas (with the exception of school psychology). OR (2) Have a doctoral degree in any area of psychology and, in addition, successfully complete a re-specialization program (including documentation of an approved internship completed as part of the re-specialization program) meeting both of the following conditions: (a) The re-specialization 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. NOTE: The applicant must provide an official transcript and/or certificate documenting the completion of the re-specialization program, which includes completion of an APA or CPA internship. [Psychologists who have successfully completed a re-specialization program as described above and who were employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs prior to the implementation of this standard are considered to have fully met the educational requirements of these qualification standards.] [OR (3) Have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally-accredited institution, with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature.] AND (4) Internships (a) Have successfully completed a professional psychology internship training program that was accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed and that is consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed. OR (b) New VHA psychology internship programs that are in the process of applying for APA accreditation are acceptable in fulfillment of the internship requirement, provided that such programs were sanctioned by the VHA Central Office Program Director for Psychology and the VHA Office of Academic Affiliations at the time that the individual was an intern; OR (c) VHA facilities that offered full-time, one-year pre-doctoral internships prior to PL 96-151 (pre-1979) are considered to be acceptable in fulfillment of the internship requirement; OR (d) Applicants who completed an internship that was not accredited by APA or CPA at the time the program was completed may be considered eligible for hire only if they are currently board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology in a specialty area that is consistent with the assignment for which the applicant is to be employed. (NOTE: Once board certified, the employee is required to maintain board certification.) [OR (e) Applicants who have a doctoral degree awarded between 1951 and 1978 from a regionally-accredited institution with a dissertation primarily psychological in nature may fulfill this internship requirement by having the equivalent of a one-year supervised internship experience in a site specifically acceptable to the candidate's doctoral program. If the internship experience is not noted on the applicant's official transcript, the applicant must provide a statement from the doctoral program verifying that the equivalent of a one-year supervised internship experience was completed in a site acceptable to the doctoral program. NOTE: Psychologists who meet the requirements of this revision and who were employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs prior to the implementation of this standard are considered to have fully met the requirements of this qualification standard.] Licensure. Hold a full, current, and unrestricted license to practice psychology at the doctoral level in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Physical Requirements. See VA Directive and Handbook 5019. English Language Proficiency. Psychologists must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Chapter 3, section A, paragraph 3j. May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria). Grade Determinations: Psychology Program Manager, GS-14 Experience. At least three years of experience as a professional psychologist, with at least one year equivalent to the GS-13 grade level. ["The South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) is comprised of two inpatient campuses: the Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital in San Antonio and the Kerrville VA Hospital in Kerrville, Texas. The STVHCS serves one of the largest primary service areas in the nation, with 35 counties, and is part of the VA Heart of Texas Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN 17), with offices located in Arlington, Texas. Providing a service to Veterans with a working staff of more than 4,300 employees, South Texas provides health care services for 114,000 Veterans. The STVHCS is a facility providing primary, secondary and tertiary health care in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine. It also supports a 90 bed Extended Care Therapy Center, a 30-bed Spinal Cord Injury Center, an eight-bed Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, and a Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center. Affiliated with UT Health San Antonio, the system has an active ambulatory care program with numerous satellite outpatient clinics. VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws\nVA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU The Program Manager is responsible for the mental health programmatic services of teams across the San Antonio and Kerrville VAMC and affiliated CBOC's. Candidates are encouraged to apply to the vacancy announcement that matches their specific occupation/discipline (Psychologist, Social Worker, Pharmacist, Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor), as each occupation has very specific qualification standards that are used to determine qualifications. Candidates must meet the qualification requirements for the occupation/discipline to which an application package has been submitted. We are unable to move applications to other vacancy announcements...please make sure you are applying to the appropriate occupation/discipline. This recruitment effort is currently focused on the following occupations/disciples: Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, (Internal Candidates): CAZM -11593330-22-MM, GS-101-13 Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, (All US Citizens): CAZM -11593331-22-MM, GS-101-13 Social Worker, (Internal Candidates): CAZM -11593332-22-MM, GS-185-13 Social Worker, (All US Citizens): CAZM -11593333-22-MM, GS-185-13 Psychologist, (Internal Candidates): CAZM-11593334-22-MM, GS-180-14 Pharmacist, (Internal Candidates): CAZM -11593336-22-MM, GS-660-13 Pharmacist, (All US Citizens): CAZM -11593337-22-MM, GS-660-13 Duties may include but are not limited to: Overseeing the development and implementation of therapeutic treatments programs such as evidenced based psychotherapies, individual and group psychotherapies and other non-evidenced based treatments per the PMCHI model. Monitoring access to timely service delivery of therapies and treatments.\nApprove all leave requests from interdisciplinary psychotherapists and matrixed staff to ensure adequate clinical coverage of work duties on any given time.\nMeet with matrix supervisors and mental health program managers on a regular basis to ensure adequate transfer of patients between clinics, adequate service offerings among clinics.\nReview policies and procedures with staff to ensure compliance with performance measures related to access and clinic utilization rates.\nOversight of administrative and programmatic resources such as clinical demands and needs including psychological testing instruments, MBC, therapy treatment manuals, patient workbooks, and educational materials in support of staff needs.\nFacilitate staff meetings with interdisciplinary psychotherapists for collaboration on mutual patients, compliance with performance measures and ensuring seamless access between programs.\nAttend meeting with Chief Medical Officers, PCMHI AO, Program Support Assistant and Management Analysts to review consult assignment, clinic availability, and review appropriateness of consults.\nPsychology Program Manager works closely with the respective AO's in meeting the necessary standards for providing patient care in areas such as appointment wait-times, consult status, coordination of group room space, monitoring open encounters, completion of clinical reminders, ensuring appropriate referrals to outside agencies and clinics for veterans.\nPsychology Program Manager coordinates with discipline supervisors of matrixed staff assigned to these programs to ensure staff are working in accordance to the SOPs of the respective medicine clinics.\nPsychology Program Manager manages the work of the program and its staff, ensuring that work is assigned in a systematic way and meets facility and VA guidelines/standards."]