Job Description:

• Primary mission is to support the Telehealth Department at the Medical Treatment Facility.


• Participates in the design and implementation of Telehealth and be fully involved in the preliminary identification of appropriate subjects for treatment, collecting and summarizing assessment data on patients who are referred for Telehealth evaluation.


• Conducts psychological interview and psycho-physiological assessments conducted with patients computer data entry.


• Prepares reports of Telehealth consultation or assessment results.


• Assists in public presentation of findings at regional and national conferences.


• Library research assists with establishing and maintaining remote VTC sessions.


•  Provide additional psychological testing support.


• Coordinate the clinical VTC support scheduling for ongoing SRPs, other deploying and redeploying activities as well as routine clinical Telehealth encounters.


• Serve as an intake worker for crisis evaluation and/or routine intake evaluation.


• Facilitate intake and triage of patients by receiving phone calls and/or prospective patients in person to obtain demographic, historical and clinical information.


• Interviews patients to identify relevant information and organize pertinent facts.


• Assesses patients' mental status to distinguish type of case and to discriminate between routine, complex and/or emergency cases. 


• Analyzes and consolidated information for presentation to supervisor/psychologist for disposition of each case and makes recommendations for triage purposes.


• Assists in the collection, processing and distribution of intake forms.


• Administers and scores a variety of select psychological tests following prescribed testing procedures.


• Compiles cumulative, demographic, historical and diagnostic test data/information and compares to established norms.

Requirements:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in an appropriate social or biological science, which included or was supplemented by 12 hours in Psychology.  You must submit copies of your official transcripts so that this educational requirement can be verified.


• Experience as a psychology technician of at least 5 years.


• Have and maintain PALS certification.