Lead Psychologist - PT

Job Summary

STGi is currently seeking a Lead Psychologist to provide medical consultation and case review evaluations on Worker’s Compensation cases. The candidate must be located in the Washington DC Metropolitan area.

Part‑Time, Hybrid schedule.

The Lead Psychologist provides leadership, oversight, and management for the psychological pre‑placement and case review services provided by Federal Occupational Health (FOH). The Lead Psychologist ensures the quality of psychological services, determinations, and recommendations regarding federal employees, including those employees in law enforcement and other safety‑sensitive positions such as federal agents and federal agent candidates. The FOH Lead Psychologist ensures that FOH psychologists and Reviewing Medical Officers (RMOs) understand customer agency specific security program requirements and federal regulations and can apply these program requirements to all interactions with customer agency employees.

• Develops documents and participates in designated national healthcare quality TJC accreditation processes.
• Establishes and participates in performing continuous quality improvement assessments for the various psychological examination types that are conducted for FOH.
• Demonstrates a strong level of technical expertise regarding psychological services that are required in an occupational healthcare setting and provides consultation (and psychological assessments when required) of the highest caliber.
• Possesses a strong technical knowledge regarding occupational federal safety and health regulations regarding psychological issues.
• Promotes and ensures the quality of psychological assessment results, particularly for difficult cases.
• Produces quality products in a short time frame, which is pre‑determined by the type of psychological assessment that is to be completed.
• Promotes improvement‑oriented ideas.
• Demonstrates a high level of professional conduct.

• Provides ongoing intellectual guidance for psychological assessment activities that is relevant for completing cases that require psychological assessments.
• Responsible for ensuring that psychological assessments are distributed to psychologists with the appropriate education, skill, and training to perform the psychological assessment.
• Performs a mixture of administrative, clinical, and consultant duties depending on the specific behavioral health case requirements.
• Provides consultation with customer agency management on psychological program needs and requirements as well as how to develop work‑relevant psychological programs.
• Provides acute emergency consultation on performing federally regulated and agency‑mandated psychological assessments (e.g. pre‑employment, fitness for duty, security clearance, etc.).
• May be required to conduct psychological assessments and render a professional opinion as it relates to work clearances or recommendations consistent with the examination findings and established psychological standards.
• Provides expert psychological advice and consultation on psychological matters in the workplace in accordance with accepted psychological standards of care and customary industry practices to FOH staff and the Federal agencies that FOH serves.
• Develops FOH policy and guidelines for work‑related psychological assessments.
• Provides expert witness testimony services regarding psychological recommendations on cases in which psychological consultation is provided to a federal agency, when requested.
• Administers and interprets psychological tests in a manner that minimizes construct‑irrelevant variance and promotes valid score interpretations for the intended assessment of all federal agency applicants and employees.
• Consults and opines on position suitability for customer agency applicants and employees based on the psychological interview and test results as they relate to the job task analysis as well as the psychological and medical standards provided by customer agency.
• Consults with psychiatrists as needed.
• Serves as a Subject Matter…