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Clinical Psychologist GS-0180-13

Location JP-OKINAWA
Job ID
2026-9056
# Positions
1
Category
Medical
Salary Range
$90,925 to - $118,204 per year
Recruitment Bonus
Negotiable
Relocation Assistance
Negotiable
Student Loan Repayment
Negotiable

Overview

This position serves as a Clinical Psychologist services children from birth to twenty-one years in connection with the Educational Developmental and Intervention Services (EDIS) Program, U.S. Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan.

 

18th Medical Group building

 

 

The 18th Medical Group Provides world-class health services to over 14.6K beneficiaries at the Air Force’s largest combat wing. We operate the largest Pacific Air Force (PACAF) medical and dental clinics with 91 providers supporting 99,000 annual visits, the Air Force's second largest neonatal intensive care unit, the Pacific Command dental laboratory, and the western Pacific’s only Aeromedical Staging Flight.

 

The 18th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron is PACAF's largest and most complex aerospace team, enhancing human performance and minimizing disease at the Air Forces largest combat wing and supporting 55,000 personnel across Okinawa. We support missions utilizing 8 airframes, aeromedical evacuation for the western Pacific, and preventive medicine for units from six major commands and three service branches.

We also provide aeromedical staging, bioenvironmental engineering, aerospace medicine, human performance optimization, public health services, theater preventive medicine, warrior operational medicine, and western Pacific’s sole Critical Care Air Transport Team.

Responsibilities

Duties

  • Execute a full range of clinical psychological diagnostic, strategies, procedures, consultation services to eligible children from birth to twenty-one years for the Educational and Developmental Intervention Services (EDIS).
  • Assist as a consultant and authoritative resource expert to the EDIS interdisciplinary evaluation team.
  • Provide consultation to medical, clinical providers and school personnel on complex pediatric Behavioral health cases.
  • Carry out psychological assessments of children referred from the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) case study committee.
  • Determine appropriate psychological tests and clinical interviews to evaluate and diagnose severe, chronic childhood psychological disorders.
  • Perform diagnostic interviews, integrates interview information with psycho-diagnostic test data to establish and fortify psychological diagnoses in accordance with criteria set down in the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
 

Qualifications

US Citizenship required

 

Must have practiced as a licensed independent practioner within the past two years

 

Doctoral Degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) directly related to full professional work in clinical psychology.

 

A current, active, valid, and unrestricted clinical license to practice Psychology independently from a U.S. State, the District of Columbia, Commonwealth, territory, or jurisdiction is required.

 

Candidates will have completed an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited doctoral graduate program and an APA accredited predoctoral internship.

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