The Battle Creek VA Medical Center is recruiting for a full time Psychologist in Psychiatry Service at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Diagnosing mental disorders, conducting psychological assessments, and providing adjunctive interventions for treatment of medical disorders. Treating mental disorders through a variety of modalities including individual, family, and group psychotherapies. Consulting with medical center staff on a wide variety of patient care issues and may be involved in program evaluation and/or research activities. Applying advanced professional psychological diagnostic methods and evidence-based intervention strategies to a full range of patient problems in this work setting. Providing direct psychological patient care and of consultation services of difficult or complex cases. Determining patients' needs for psychological evaluation, specialized evaluation procedures, diagnostic procedures, individual and group psychotherapy, and specialized psychological techniques. Providing a full range of comprehensive, efficacious and evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions, including individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy as well as interview based and psychological testing-based assessments. Consulting with other staff members and making recommendations of the types of psychological evaluations that would be beneficial. Overseeing the administration and scoring of psychological assessment procedures, interpretations and report the findings of the evaluation in the medical record in a timely fashion. Applying principles/techniques of behavioral health to patients being threated for medical/mental health conditions, including assisting patients with improving health behaviors, smoking cessation, pain management, adherence to recommended treatments, managing chronic or terminal illness and assisting in or developing new therapy groups and practices. 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