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State of Nevada Announces
An Open Competitive Recruitment for:
PSYCHOLOGIST 4
APPROXIMATE ANNUAL SALARY -  $73,956.96 to  $111,728.88  PAY GRADE: 44
For more information on benefit and retirement programs, please see the sections below.
In order to receive consideration, applicants must indicate their availability for any work type, travel, and location requirements listed.
JOB INFORMATION
Work Type: A Permanent, full time vacancy
Department: Corrections
Division: Administrative
Location: Carson, Minden, Gardnerville, Genoa
Job Class Code: 10.124
RECRUITMENT INFORMATION
Announcement Number: 35033
Open to all qualified persons.
Posted 08/16/2018
Close Date: 09/15/2018
Recruiter:
   KENNETH GOODLY
   Phone: **None**
   Email: kgoodly@doc.nv.gov
Applications accepted for another Expired
The Position
Corrections Counselors within in the Nevada Department of Corrections provide mental health services to offenders in a correctional setting including interviews, behavioral planning and implementation, consultation, psycho-educational classes, research, and training.
This position is located at Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC), in Carson City, Nevada. The incumbent monitors psychological services provided by mental health staff to ensure quality care; audits mental health and correctional programs; determines training needs of mental health and program staff; oversees the programming and mental health treatment operations of clinical staff, ensuring that all subordinate staff provide constitutional care of inmates; implements best practices programming methodologies; and develops, implements and monitors performance measures.

To Qualify:
In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements:
Education and Experience (Minimum Qualifications)
    Doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in clinical psychology, counseling, education, social work, or closely related field and four years of post-doctoral experience providing therapy, psychological testing and rehabilitative programs to clients or inmates in a correctional, rehabilitative, clinic or institutional setting, one year of which must have been in a supervisory capacity; OR a Doctoral degree (Psy.D.) in clinical psychology from an accredited school of professional psychology and four years of experience as described above.
Special Requirements
    A pre-employment criminal history check and fingerprinting are required.
    Pursuant to NRS 284.4066, this position has been identified as affecting public safety. Persons offered employment in this position must submit to a pre-employment screening for controlled substances.
The Examination
PSYCHOLOGIST IV
The exam will consist of a rating of training and experience weighted 100%. It is essential that applications include extensively detailed information with time frames regarding education and experience. Your score will be based on the information provided in your application and your responses to the questions asked below. If there are several parts to a question, answer each part separately. Along with each answer, identify the position(s) and/or training (as described in your application) where you gained the background asked for in the question. Absence of experience/training asked for in a question is not necessarily disqualifying. Failure to answer the questions will result in a score based solely on the application.

Qualified applicants will be contacted by the hiring agency for interview.
1) Describe your experience, including number of years, in the following areas: A) Mental Health Facility - Inpatient; B) Mental Health Facility - Outpatient, C) Substance Abuse Treatment Program; D) Alcohol Abuse Treatment Program.
2) Describe your experience, including number of years, in the following areas: A) Acute Inpatient-Mental Health; B) Chronic Patient - Mental Health; C) Crisis Clinic; D) Medical Inpatient.
3) Describe your experience, including number of years, in rehabilitation. Please indicate if the experience is educational, vocational, sex offender or physical discipline.
4) Describe your experience, including the number of years, in the administration and delivery of psychological programmatic services, to include planning, organizing, delegating, overseeing and evaluating the work of doctoral level and other professional staff and support personnel.
5) Describe your experience addressing advocacy issues regarding mental illness, developmental disabilities, co-occurring disorders, and substance abuse.
6) Describe your experience collecting, analyzing and utilizing data in administrative accountability and evaluation studies.
7) Describe your experience preparing and administering a departmental budget by correlating the available fiscal resources with agency needs for equipment, personnel and training, and program implementation.
INFORMATIONAL LINKS
For more information about state employment, visit the following:
Division of Human Resource Management: http://hr.nv.gov
Public Employees Retirement System: http://www.nvpers.org
Public Employees Benefits Program: http://pebp.state.nv.us
More Benefits Information: http://nvjobs.nv.gov/Applicants/EB
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Email
Direct Inquiries or Correspondence to:
Division of Human Resource Management
Northern Nevada
209 East Musser Street,
Room 101
Carson City, Nevada 89701-4204

TDD for the Hearing Impaired (800) 326-6868
Division of Human Resource Management
Southern Nevada
555 East Washington Avenue,
Suite 1400
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101-1046

TDD for the Hearing Impaired (800) 326-6868


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