Supervisory Clinical Psychologist

**Duties**:

- Performs supervisory duties, including distributing work, providing technical oversight, identifying training needs, and counseling on work matters.
- Provides clinical psychology evaluation and treatment services to children/students in the Department of Defense Dependent Schools.
- Performs individual, clinical assessments including behavioral observation, clinical interviews, and administration and interpretation of psychological and educational tests to determine eligibility for special education.
- Teaches and provides technical assistance to teachers, school psychologists, behavior management specialists, and parents in carrying out these programs.
- Plans and coordinates workshops in psychological evaluations, interventions and special interest topics for educators, other professionals, and laypersons as appropriate.
- Assesses and implements psychological treatment to individuals and families.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
- One year trial/probationary period may be required.
- Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19.
- This position has specific initial background investigation and periodic re-verification requirements since its duties require interaction with children and youth under the age of eighteen (18) years of age on a recurring basis.
- Immunization screening is required. Hepatitis B immunization is required for all positions with direct patient contact. Applicants may be required to show proof of other immunizations depending on the type of position.
- All Health Care Providers must be able to obtain and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) training and certification that is sponsored or endorsed by the American Heart Association (AHA).
- Current Advanced Life Support or other advanced certification does not supersede BLS completion.
- A pre-placement medical examination is required.
- Applicants must be able to fulfill credentialing requirements and obtain and maintain appropriate/relevant clinical privileges.
- This position is identified as Mission Essential which may require you to work or remain at work during an emergency situation or when inclement weather has curtailed operations (e.g., threat to the facility, natural disaster, delayed reporting).
- This position requires a one year probation to assess your ability to perform supervisory duties unless previously completed.
- This position may require you to be on-call on a rotational basis, responding to emergency calls at times beyond the normal duty day.
- This position requires the employee to use personal protective equipment provided by the employer.

**Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply: US Citizens**Basic Requirements for**
**Supervisory Clinical Psychologist***:

- **Licensure**: This position requires a current, active, valid, unrestricted clinical license to practice Psychology independently, offered by a U.S. State, District of Columbia, commonwealth, territory or jurisdiction.
- **Degree**: Doctoral Degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) directly related to full professional work in clinical psychology.

In addition to meeting the basic requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
**Specialized Experience**: One year of specialized experience which includes providing a full spectrum of child and adult psychological, diagnostic, and therapeutic services as well as conducting psychological assessments with children and adults; training and/or providing guidelines on clinical assessments; and analyzing program activities. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12 or above).
- Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone-no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

**Education**:
**Additional information**:

- Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
- U.S. citizens overseas under ordinarily resident status are not eligible for appointment under the Status of Forces Agreement.
- This is a Career Program (CP) 53 - Medical position.
- Employees (and family members) who require medical or dental care in the overseas location will be responsible for obtaining and paying for such care. Access for civilian employees and their families to military medical and dental treatment facilities is on a space-available and reimbursable basis only.
- Medical and dental care may be provided by host nation providers. The availability and level of care at host nation medical and dental facilities will vary by location.
- Pay re