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Posted: 29-Aug-23
Location: Sheridan, Wyoming
Type: Full Time
Salary: $79,458 - $147,222 per year
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Internal Number: CBSU-11962141-23-ALS
About Sheridan, Wyoming:
Sheridan is a vibrant and friendly community, located at the base of the Big Horn Mountains, in the great state of Wyoming. Here, we are able to offer a wide variety of amenities for the community while maintaining a small-town identity. This is the perfect place for an outdoor enthusiast, as well those seeking a break from the big city. With 106 million acres of Bighorn National Forest encompassing 180,000 acres of wilderness, this is an ideal place to play, and work. Here is a glimpse of what Sheridan, Wyoming, and the Bighorn Mountains have to offer.
About the Psychologist (Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program) position:
The Psychologist has direct responsibility for the health and safety of Veterans in the Sheridan VA MHRRTP. The position includes the delivery of evidenced based psychosocial and environmental interventions for reducing behavioral and psychological symptoms. This programs delivers specialized, complex, highly professional services that are important program components of the Sheridan VA HCS and VISN 19’s compendium of mental health
services. As the tertiary mental health facility, this specialized program significantly impact the health care provided to Veterans both within and beyond VISN 19.
- Promoting the delivery of evidenced based psychosocial and environmental interventions for reducing behavioral and psychological symptoms.
- Providing screening, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety-related disorders, and serious mental illness, as well as other mental health conditions.
- Assessing and providing treatments for subclinical symptoms of dysphoria and anxiety adjustment difficulties, and excessive use or misuse of alcohol or other drugs.
- Plans and conducts individual and group psychotherapy utilizing one or more Evidenced Based Psychotherapies.
- Develops a comprehensive treatment plan for a wide range of abnormal behaviors.
- Provides ongoing case management services and disposition planning for all assigned Veterans.
- Providing screening of cognitive deficits to address specific functional questions or to determine if a completed neuropsychological evaluation or dementia assessment is needed.
- Performing capacity/competency assessments when there are questions about a resident's ability to make medical decision, perform other specific functions, or live independently.
- Assessing resident's understanding of advanced directives and other forms of consent and assisting staff in determining how to present treatment options and other such material to resident's in a format they can understand.
- Providing individual and group interventions to support residents mental health related needs, or adjustment to disability limitations, changes in medical status, adjustment to assistive living/nursing home environments, and other life transitions.
- Providing behavioral medicine interventions to manage and enhance medical compliance.
- Providing behavioral modification techniques for Veterans with disruptive behavior issues to promote wellbeing.
- Psychologists will provide mental disorder examinations based on competent, critical, objective and unbiased information. Diagnose all mental disorders, including personality disorders using the nomenclature in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V).
- Determine when clinical-administered psychometric testing is necessary and integrate the results of such testing into the examination report.
