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Staff Psychologist (Inpatient)
Veterans Health Administration · Salisbury, North Carolina · Closes in 2 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
This job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Noncitizens do not qualify.
Experience: For GS-12, you need at least 1 year of experience as a professional psychologist at the GS-11 level. For GS-13, the full level for this job, you need at least 2 years as a professional psychologist, with at least 1 year at the GS-12 level.
Education: The main path is a doctoral degree in psychology from a program accredited by APA, PCSAS, or CPA. You also need a professional psychology internship accredited by APA or CPA that fits the job, with some listed exceptions. Other options include a doctoral degree in another area of psychology plus an approved re-specialization program, or a doctoral degree awarded from 1951 to 1978 with a mostly psychological dissertation.
Licenses and certifications:
- Full, current, unrestricted license to practice psychology at the doctoral level in a U.S. state, territory, Commonwealth, or D.C.
- GS-11 and GS-12: you may start without a license as a temporary graduate psychologist, but you must get licensed within 2 years of appointment
- GS-13: you must already hold the license
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 2 days (November 6, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You will be rated on how well you meet the listed qualifications. Your application, resume, CV, and supporting documents will be verified, so be clear and specific, and errors or missing information may affect your rating.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Your resume or CV should show dates and hours per week for each psychology job, and match the GS-12 or GS-13 experience levels.
- Include a transcript, which is required even if you do not use education to qualify.
- Apply by 11:59 PM ET on 11/06/2026, and complete the questionnaire as well as the documents.
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