Clinical Psychologist (Chief Psychologist) Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System Summary Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities. Learn more about this agency Summary Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Thomson, IL No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $127,786 - $166,126 per year Pay scale & grade GS 14 Promotion potential 14 Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 0180 Psychology Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number
NCR-26-13049623
Control number 882620800 This job is open to Help Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency
- BOP Employees nionwide
- DOJ Surplus and Displaced (CTAP) Employees in the local commuting area.
Duty Locion:
FCI Thomson, IL
NOTE:
A RETENTION INCENTIVE UP TO 25
%
MAY BE OFFERED TO SELECTEE
(S)
WHO MEETS THE CRITERIA FOR RETENTION INCENTIVE.
Duties Help Serves as Chief of the Psychology Services department a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) federal correctional facility. Major duties and responsibilities include administrion and program development, psychological assessment and evaluion, training and supervision, research/program evaluion, as well as faciliting a wide variety of professional, self-help and personal growth programs. The Chief Psychologist supervises two or more specialized trement psychology programs, each directed by a GS-13 program coordinor psychologist. Specialized trement programs include such program areas as drug abuse trement, forensics, sex offender trement, APA psychology internship program, transitional services program, etc. Maintains an ongoing awareness of organizional development, modern correctional practices and various management concepts as it reles to the psychology department. Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Career Transition Programs (CTAP) : This program applies to Federal and/or DOJ employees who meet the definition of surplus or displaced from a position in the competitive service. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: Meet CTAP eligibility criteria; Be red well-qualified for the position, scoring least half of the total possible points for the vacancy KSAs or competencies; and Submit the approprie documention to support your CTAP eligibility: A copy of the agency notice (i.e., separion notice or agency RIF letter), Most recent performance appraisal, and Most recent SF-50 showing current/former position, grade, promotion potential, and duty locion. See USAJOBS' Career Transition Programs for more informion.
EEO Stement/Policy:
The United Stes government does not discrimine in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, nional origin, political affiliion, sexual oriention, marital stus, disability, genetic informion, age, membership in an employee organizion, retaliion, parental stus, military service or other non-merit factor. More informion can be found here: U.S Department of Justice -
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Key Requirements:
U.S. Citizenship is Required. See Special Conditions of Employment Section. Qualificions To be considered for the position, you must meet the following:
Basic Requirements:
Sisfactory completion of all the requirements for a doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) directly reled to full professional work in clinical psychology is required.
NOTE:
Applicants may have received this degree in either clinical or counseling psychology. AND In addition to the basic requirements, applicants must have:
Educion:
There is no substitution of educion for specialized experience for this position.
Experience:
At least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the qualificions to successfully perform the duties of the position, and th is typically be in or reled to the position to be filled. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience in specialized trement program areas such as drug abuse trement, forensics, sex offender trement, APA psychology internship program, and transitional services program. Experience in organizional development, modern correctional practices and various management concepts as it reles to the psychology department. Experience in providing professional guidance to staff in the psychology department.
AND Selective Placement Factor:
Applicants applying for this position MUST also possess the following Selective Factor. In the event th you do not possess the Selective Factor, you found ineligible for the position. Applicants must hold a full, current, and unrestricted license to practice psychology the doctoral level in a Ste, Territory, Commonwealth of the United Stes (e.g., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia.
NOTE:
All applicants must electronically upload a copy of their license the time they apply to the vacancy announcement. The documention provided must show the expirion de of the license. Failure to provide this documention will result in loss of considerion for this position. If applicable, credit given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.
- Your eligibility for considerion based on your responses to the questions in the applicion.
- Educion See Qualificions Section for educion requirements, if applicable .
ONLY if educion is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verificion of educional requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS the time you apply and MUST include identifying informion to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and De Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed a college or university th has obtained accredition or pre-accredition stus from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion. For a list of schools th meet this criteria, Click Here .
Foreign Educion:
For informion regarding foreign educion requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition the U.S.
Department of Educion website:
Recognition of Foreign Qualificions . Additional informion Although 5 U.S.C. 3307 established a maximum entry age for original appointment to a position in a Bureau of Prisons institutions, applicants applying for this series can be considered any age . The representive re for this position is $140,566 per annum ($67.35 per hour).
Special Conditions of Employment Section:
Initial appointment to a supervisory/managerial position requires a one-year probionary period. The incumbent is subject to geographic relocion to meet the needs of the agency. Appointment is subject to sisfactory completion of a urinalysis, physical, and background investigion. All applicants are subject to Nional Crime Informion Center (NCIC) and credit checks. All applicants not currently working in an institution required to complete a qualificion inquiry regarding convictions of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence in order to be authorized to carry a firearm. Successful completion of the "Introduction to Correctional Techniques," three-week training course Glynco, Georgia is required. The addresses listed on the USAJOBS account/resume must be the primary residence the time of applicion. You may be required to provide proof of residence. Additional selections may be made if vacancies occur within the life of the certifice. Although competitive and non-competitive applicions are being accepted, the selecting official may elect to have only one group reviewed.
NOTE:
A RETENTION INCENTIVE UP TO 25
%
MAY BE OFFERED TO SELECTEE
(S)
WHO MEETS THE CRITERIA FOR RETENTION INCENTIVE.
Reasonable Accommodion (RA)
Requests:
If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online applicion. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudicion decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments . ( https://appsupport-usastaffing.opm.gov/hc/en-us/sections/45063131363475-Reasonable-Accommodion-Informion ) Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. You evalued based on how well you meet the qualificions listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), your responses on the applicion questionnaire, and your responses to all assessments required for this position. You assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Accountability Customer Service Decisiveness Flexibility Interpersonal Skills Problem Solving Resilience Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion. You evalued based on your assessment score and the informion provided in your resume and supporting documention. Applicants who receive a score of 85 or higher reviewed first, and reviews will continue until 10 qualified applicants have been identified. Applicants who receive a score of 75 or below will not be reviewed . Your resume and supporting documents compared against your responses to the online assessment to determine whether you meet the qualificion requirements listed in this announcement. If the informion in your applicion merials does not support your assessment responses, your score may be adjusted and/or you may be removed from considerion. If you are found to be among the top candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion. There are several parts of the applicion process th affect the overall evaluion of your applicion: Your resume, which is part of your USAJOBS profile; Your responses to the eligibility questions; Your responses to the online assessment; Your supporting documention, if required.
Time-in-Grade:
Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for considerion. You must meet all qualificion requirements upon the closing de of this announcement. Due Weight for
Performance and Awards:
Any performance appraisal/evaluion and award documention you provide forwarded to the selecting official. The selecting official will review this documention and give it due weight considerion during the overall selection process.
Please submit:
a copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion; and a list of any awards (e.g. superior performance awards, special act or achievement awards, quality step increase, etc.) you received in the last 5 years. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluion, please submit a stement as to why it is not available. Please indice if any prior performance appraisals/evaluions were an acceptable level. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help Failure to provide legible required documents and/or follow the prescribed form often results in removal from considerion. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD-214, or Transcripts. Resume (limited to 2 pages) must include your name, contact informion, and relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee's position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence of qualifying experience (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, MOU, etc.). If providing a memorandum, it must follow the form below AND clearly cite the duties performed. To receive credit for experience, your resume and/or any sisfactory evidence must include: Start de and end de in month/year form (MM/YYYY) AND Number of hours worked per week. SF-50: Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time-in-grade. SF-50 : If you are a current/former federal government employee, you must provide an unredacted copy of your lest SF-50. Proof of CTAP eligibility, Click Here , if applicable.
College transcript:
includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree, and De Awarded (if applicable).
NOTE:
If you are selected, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day. A copy of your lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion. Professional Certificion/License For more help, USAJOBS Help Center - How do I write a resume for a federal job? We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about two (2) hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us . To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Visit https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on 09/04/2026. If applicable see Notice for Preference Eligible Veterans Applicants To preview the applicion questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13049623 How do I Apply for this Position if I am a Current Public Health Service Commissioned Officer? Submit a complete/detailed resume or curriculum vitae. Limit your resume to 2 pages. If the only resume(s) received is/are longer than two pages, your applicion is ineligible for further considerion. Address selective factor, if required. Resume or curriculum vitae must contain all informion listed in the Qualificions Section. Submit supporting documents (i.e. transcripts, certificion, registrion, and/or license, if applicable). Your completed applicion packet must be submitted to the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST), on 09/04/2026. You must include the last four digits of your social security number and the vacancy announcement number on your applicion packet.
DO NOT SUBMIT AN APPLICATION ON-LINE
Agency contact informion Consolided Staffing Unit Phone 972-352-4200 bop-hrm-hrsc-consolidedstaffingunit-s@bop.gov Next steps We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days. When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception, Best Qualified Lists) is/are genered to make a selection. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help Failure to provide legible required documents and/or follow the prescribed form often results in removal from considerion. If uploading documention, do not identify/save your documents utilizing a special character such as %, #, @, etc. Documention should be identified/saved as VA Letter, DD-214, or Transcripts. Resume (limited to 2 pages) must include your name, contact informion, and relevant experience (cover letter optional). Experience th would not normally be part of the Federal employee's position is creditable when documented by sisfactory evidence of qualifying experience (e.g., a memorandum from the manager, Human Resource Manager, SF-52, MOU, etc.). If providing a memorandum, it must follow the form below AND clearly cite the duties performed. To receive credit for experience, your resume and/or any sisfactory evidence must include: Start de and end de in month/year form (MM/YYYY) AND Number of hours worked per week. SF-50: Current or former Federal employees NOT employed by the Bureau of Prisons MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment, tenure group, and salary. If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. If you are applying for a higher grade, and your experience was gained a Federal agency other than the Bureau of Prisons, you MUST provide the SF-50 Form which verifies the length of time you have been in your highest grade and supports your claim for time-in-grade. SF-50 : If you are a current/former federal government employee, you must provide an unredacted copy of your lest SF-50. Proof of CTAP eligibility, Click Here , if applicable.
College transcript:
includes the School Name, Student Name, Degree, and De Awarded (if applicable).
NOTE:
If you are selected, official transcript(s) required prior to your first day. A copy of your lest yearly performance appraisal/evaluion. Professional Certificion/License For more help, USAJOBS Help Center - How do I write a resume for a federal job? We cannot be held responsible for incompible software, delays in mail service, applicant applicion errors, etc. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and submit all required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside about two (2) hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us . To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Visit https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. All required supporting documention MUST be received by the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on 09/04/2026. If applicable see Notice for Preference Eligible Veterans Applicants To preview the applicion questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13049623 How do I Apply for this Position if I am a Current Public Health Service Commissioned Officer? Submit a complete/detailed resume or curriculum vitae. Limit your resume to 2 pages. If the only resume(s) received is/are longer than two pages, your applicion is ineligible for further considerion. Address selective factor, if required. Resume or curriculum vitae must contain all informion listed in the Qualificions Section. Submit supporting documents (i.e. transcripts, certificion, registrion, and/or license, if applicable). Your completed applicion packet must be submitted to the Consolided Staffing Unit by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST), on 09/04/2026. You must include the last four digits of your social security number and the vacancy announcement number on your applicion packet.
DO NOT SUBMIT AN APPLICATION ON-LINE
Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Consolided Staffing Unit Phone 972-352-4200 bop-hrm-hrsc-consolidedstaffingunit-s@bop.gov Next steps We will notify you of the outcome after each step of the applicion process has been completed. Normally, Selecting Officials will make a selection within 90-days. When deemed necessary, the selection process may be extended up to 180-days from the de the certifice(s), (Exception, Best Qualified Lists) is/are genered to make a selection. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Thomson, IL No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $127,786 - $166,126 per year Pay scale & grade GS 14 Promotion potential 14 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number
NCR-26-13049623
Control number 882620800
