Clinical Psychologist; SUD

Duties

The Psychologist will be an independently licensed provider with knowledge of the treatment of addiction and related co‑morbid mental health conditions and associated reactions as part of the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Team. The incumbent utilizes a variety of empirically supported treatment to alleviate or reduce cycles of physiological, behavioral, and cognitive addiction.

The incumbent has full professional responsibility for determining patients' needs for psychological evaluations, specialized evaluation procedures, diagnostic procedures, individual, group, and specialized proficiencies and techniques. Incumbent personally performs or refers, when appropriate, candidates to individual and group psychotherapy. Having determined the need for psychological intervention, incumbent provides the indicated therapeutic, diagnostic or evaluative intervention, unless such an intervention requires specialized professional expertise for which the incumbent is not privileged to practice in this Medical Center.

In such instances, the incumbent will refer such candidates to another psychologist or therapist who is so privileged.

The incumbent integrates his/her efforts with those of other professional and administrative personnel who may comprise a multidisciplinary treatment team, maintaining the goal to reciprocally enhance the applied skill of every participating member toward the best available treatment planning for each veteran.

The incumbent is also required to exercise judgment in the selection or adaptation of standard and accepted psychological theories, techniques and practices in treating patients or developing new techniques and programs for the treatment of specialized problems or clinical populations. Incumbent must have the ability to work with a multidisciplinary team consisting of other mental health professionals and physicians, social workers, nursing personnel and others are necessary.

The incumbent should have a working knowledge of the medications used with individuals with mental illness as well as those typically used in medical settings that might affect cognitive or mental abilities.