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Psychologist 3

Salary

$7,763.60 - $11,284.00 Monthly

Location

Jackson, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

ELMHS5.15.25P3

Department

LDH-Office of Behavioral Health

Opening Date

05/16/2025

Closing Date

5/29/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

This vacancy is located in the Psychology Department of Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System in Jackson, LA (East Feliciana Parish). ELMHS is the largest 24-hour, multi-site, state psychiatric complex, comprised of residential, outpatient and inpatient services.

Minimum Qualifications

Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice psychology followed by one year of experience in psychological research, testing, or counseling.

Job Specification

Function of Work:

To improve the functioning of individual clients and/or organizations involving the application of psychological principles and techniques within one or more of the following functional areas: direct services; consultation; training; research. Services provided vary depending upon specific organizational needs and generally fall into one of the major psychological subject matter specializations.

Level of Work:

Advanced.

Supervision Received:

Broad review from a facility administrator or other professional at a higher level.

Supervision Exercised:

Supervision may be exercised over Psychologists at a lower level, Associates, Assistants, paraprofessional, semiprofessional staff and other related professional and/or clerical staff.

Location of Work:

Statewide.

Job Distinctions:

Differs from the Psychologist 2 by the presence of complete responsibility for a special area, unit or program of psychological services.

Differs from Psychologist 4 by the absence of responsibility for a program of psychological services within a region or organization.

Job Duties and Other Information

Provides or coordinates psychological services for a treatment, rehabilitation, research program or training school

Trains and advises other staff in implementing special treatment or rehabilitative programs.

Provides technical consultation and/or coordination of services to interdisciplinary staff.

Designs and implements programs involving the application of behavior modification principles and techniques.

Plans and conducts approved research within a program compatible with agency needs and goals.

Prepares research reports.

Provides technical consultation to staff relative to research and program evaluation.

Performs psychological diagnoses and treatment; and participates as a member of a patient treatment unit in staff discussions of patient diagnosis, treatment and progress.

Administers or reviews results of the full range of diagnostic tests for psychological assessment, interprets results, and prepares psychological evaluations.

Conducts group, individual, family or other specialized psychotherapy with patients, clients, students or residents in an institutional or outpatient program.

Position-Specific Information:

Psychologist 3 has a Special Entrance Rate of$44.79 / hourly.

-Retention Pay of $1.00, and up to $5.00 for every hour worked.

-Premium Pay of $2.00 every hour worked.

List all prior employment. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED!

Resume will not be accepted and should not be attached. You must include all relevant education and experience on your official State application. You must describe your actual duties as you will not be qualified based on job title alone.

A resume upload will NOT populate your information into your application. Work experience left off your electronic application or only included in an attached resume is not eligible to receive credit considered.

Did you list ALL your job experience and education on your applications?

**IMPORTANT NOTE:

While we encourage all interested applicants to apply, please be aware that there are various reasons that your application may be disqualified from consideration including, but not limited, to:

Failure to fully complete the education and work experience sections of the application; (Please note for the education section that the semester area refers to the # of credit HOURS and not the # of semesters you completed)

Submission of a resume in lieu of the online application. Information on the resume will not substitute and must also be included on the actual job application in order to be considered. You must describe your duties as you will not be qualified based on job title alone. *** Your Resume will NOT automatically upload your experience/information ***

Failure to list complete license information (if applicable to the job position).

Failure to submit an equivalency evaluation statement for an international degree by the closing of this announcement.

No Civil Service test scoreis required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

For further information about this vacancy, please contact:

LDH- ELMHS/Human Resources

Jackson, LA 70748

225-634-0680

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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Have you ever been on probation or sentenced to jail/prison as a result of a felony conviction or guilty plea to a felony charge?

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If 'YES', give the law enforcement authority (city police, sheriff, FBI, etc), the offense, place and disposition of case. If 'NO', enter N/A.

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Rate your ability to act with ethics and integrity based on our definition: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources.

+ 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable acting with ethics and integrity

+ 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to act with ethics and integrity

+ 3= I can act with ethics and integrity

+ 4= I can act with ethics and integrity and help others improve their ability to act with ethics and integrity

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Rate your ability to demonstrate accountability based on our definition: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions

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Explain your rating by providing specific and relevant examples in the box below.

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Do you possess a current Louisiana license to practice psychology?

+ Yes

+ No

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If you answered 'YES' to the question above, please list the license TYPE, NUMBER, ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE, and EXPIRATION DATE. If you answered 'NO', enter N/A. ***NOTE***ORIGINAL issue date must be provided (NOT most recent renewal) as your experience will be credited from the date you put here when you attained your license.

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