What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychologist (Police Stress Management), Grade N29 position at Montgomery County, MD and Careers?
About the Position
Montgomery County Government, Office of Human Resources is seeking an advanced-level clinical psychologist to provide direct clinical services to Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) personnel and their families.
This position is located in Montgomery County, MD, a large suburban county outside of Washington D.C. with approximately 1 million residents. The Stress Management Team (SMT), organizationally situated in the Office of Human Resources (OHR), promotes the emotional, mental, and physical well-being of Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) employees and their immediate family members. The MCPD employs approximately 2,000 sworn employees and professional staff.
The Psychologist will provide an array of mental health services and will be supervised by and work closely with the Psychologist Supervisor to perform the duties listed below, and together they provide oversight and supervision to the MCPD Peer Support Team.
What You'll Be Doing
Providing routine and emergency mental health assessment, intervention, referral, and case management services in individual, couple, group, or family formats
- Providing initial and follow-up support of personnel involved in critical incidents, including on-scene response
- Collaborating with diverse stakeholders across government agencies and community partners to assess needs, provide expert psychological consultation, and support coordinated service delivery
- Developing curriculum and providing training on psychological and stress management topics for police recruits, new call-takers/dispatchers, supervisory and in-service training, the Peer Support Team, and specialized units. Training includes stress management, substance abuse, critical incident reactions, resilience, suicide awareness and prevention?
- Providing subject matter consultation, in-service programming, and outreach in support of departmental initiatives
- Documentation of services utilizing a client records management database/electronic health records system, ensuring confidentiality of client information
- Providing organizational and workgroup assessments
- On-call duties and supervision of the Peer Support Team activities while on-call
- Conducting and evaluating research
- Selection, supervision, and training of masters- and doctoral-level psychology interns
Minimum Qualifications
Equivalency: None.
License: Licensure as a Psychologist by the Maryland State Board of Examiners for Psychologists by the date of appointment to a County Psychologist position.
Note: There will be no substitutions for the license.
Preferred Criteria, Interview Preferences
Experience working with law enforcement populations, first responder or military populations.
- Experience administering any specific psychological interventions to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Experience providing psychological services within a complex legal/regulatory/organizational environment.
- Experience providing crisis intervention on-scene to public safety employees.
- Experience providing a variety of therapeutic interventions (e.g., crisis intervention; individual, couples, family, and group therapy; skills training; and brief interventions) using multiple treatment modalities.
- Experience developing curriculum and providing training on psychological and stress management topics.
- Experience in providing psychotherapy to a diverse population with a range of diagnoses and mental health functioning.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position.
Montgomery County Government(MCG) is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should email OHR at Hiring@montgomerycountymd.gov. Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.
MCG also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference.
All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria or interview preference status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.
This will establish an Eligible List that may be used to fill both current and future vacancies.
If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.
Montgomery County Ethics Law: Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code. Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.
Salary : $98,806 - $160,742