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SBHP Military Behavioral Health Licensed Professional: HJF is seeking a Military Behavioral Health Licensed Professional to support the Center for Deployment Psychology’s SBHP program. The incumbent will perform a variety of activities as a trainer and mental health specialist. This is a remote position.  

This position will be in support of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), which is based in Bethesda, MD. The Licensed Military Behavioral Health Provider will assist with activities related to CDP’s mission, which is to lead the development of a community of culturally mindful and clinically competent providers through the delivery of high-quality training and education, the convening of experts, and the dissemination of research-based treatment and the latest topics in military behavioral health. CDP strives to be the central hub for the Military Health System (MHS) in the development and implementation of training and education to clinicians in order to ensure that all service members, veterans, and their families receive quality behavioral healthcare that meets their unique needs. The Licensed Behavioral Health Professional will contribute to the national expansion of Star Behavioral Health Providers (SBHP) program, a training and referral program that is building a network of civilian community mental health providers across the 54 U.S. states and territories and an online therapist directory to support the military population, with an emphasis on National Guard (NG) members. Henry M. Jackson Foundation (HJF) provides administrative and management support to the Center.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering online and in-person training on military culture, military mental health conditions and other service related topics which includes developing and updating presentations and training materials based on the literature.
• Serving as a subject matter expert in military behavioral health issues including the ability to integrate the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences, such that the candidate is able to provide training and consultation that is empirically sound as well as culturally competent, inclusive and accessible across a wide variety of contexts.
• Interacting closely with National Guard (NG) state behavioral health teams virtually and in-person to promote adoption of SBHP and use of the therapist directory for referring airmen and soldiers.
• Representing SBHP virtually and in person at state and national military and civilian conferences and planning events for stakeholders to raise SBHP’s national profile.
• Designing and implementing outreach strategies and creating resources for building a community of SBHP practitioners and connecting them with NG behavioral health officers.
• Collaborating closely with key stakeholders and partners such as the National Guard Bureau (NGB) and Military Family Research Institute (MFRI) at Purdue University to evaluate, enhance, and elevate SBHP and ensure its success.
• Serving as an active member/lead on team projects and assisting with programming, strategic communications, metrics, and efficiencies.
• Contributes to CDP’s subject matter expert blog posts, podcasts, videos, infographics, asynchronous training materials, and other additional educational activities as needed. Prepares scholarly manuscripts for publication and presents at national and/or international conferences to disseminate the work conducted by the Center.

May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience delivering professional presentations to adult learners including:
• Experience with curriculum development of presentations and other materials for adult continuing education.
• An ability to engage mental health professionals with different experience levels, respond to questions, and convey points clearly.
• Knowledge of the military population and military behavioral health issues and is a champion of DoD-approved evidence-based psychotherapies.
• Knowledge of the Reserve Component as well as NG practices and policies related to behavioral health care is preferred.
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to write professional correspondence, educational and marketing materials, and reports, as well as to provide briefings and updates to internal and external partners including the NGB and NG state teams.
• Clinical experience providing mental health services to adult clients.
• An active clinical license to practice within the US.

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Psychologist II: HJF is seeking a Psychologist II to assist with suicide prevention efforts and teaching related workshops. The ideal candidate will have experience with developing continuing education training materials, evidenced based therapies, adult learning and teaching, and suicide prevention. Candidates with prior training and experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicide Prevention (CBT-SP) are strongly preferred. Applicants must possess the ability to provide behavioral health subject matter expertise that is culturally sensitive in a manner that is accessible and inclusive which demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

This position will be in support of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), which is based in Rockville, MD. The Military Behavioral Health Psychologist will assist with activities related to CDP’s mission, which is to lead the development of a community of culturally mindful and clinically competent providers through the delivery of high-quality training and education, the convening of experts, and the dissemination of research-based treatment and the latest topics in military behavioral health. The Henry M. Jackson Foundation (HJF) provides administrative and management support to the Center. CDP strives to be the central hub for the Military Health System (MHS) in the development and implementation of training and education to clinicians in order to ensure that all service members, veterans, and their families receive quality behavioral healthcare that meets their unique needs.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a suicide prevention subject matter expert across the Center, contributing to projects and programs where needed.
• Develops and delivers suicide prevention presentations, workshops, and other curriculum-based learning tools in online and in-person delivery formats to include presenting multi-day, evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) workshops. Additional areas of focus are military culture and military/deployment related behavioral health issues.
• Creates and provides consultation services to military and civilian behavioral health providers who have been trained by CDP to provide continued learning support and ensure evidence-based psychotherapy practices are being used with fidelity.
• Ensures that workshops and consultation materials are updated regularly by performing frequent literature reviews on evidence-based psychology practices, telehealth, and consultation with national subject matter experts. Makes necessary changes, additions, and updates to educational materials as needed. Coordinates with military and civilian experts to organize education materials.
• Serves as an active member and/or lead on Center-level special interest groups and assists with projects/programs.
• Contributes to CDP’s subject matter expert blog posts, podcasts, videos, infographics, asynchronous training materials, and other additional educational activities as needed. Prepares scholarly manuscripts for publication and presents at national and/or international conferences to disseminate the work conducted by the Center.

May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Candidates should be knowledgeable and experienced in the area of suicide prevention with training/experience using an evidence-based treatment protocol for suicide prevention (CBT-SP, BCBT, DBT) preferred.
• Candidates should have experience delivering professional presentations to adult learners including experience with curriculum development of presentations and other materials for adult continuing education.
• Knowledge of evidenced based military behavioral health care and suicide prevention literature, especially as it relates to military connected individuals.
• Subject matter expertise in EBPs and suicide prevention includes the ability to integrate the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences, such that the candidate is able to provide training and consultation that is empirically sound as well as culturally competent, inclusive, and accessible across a wide variety of contexts.
• A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as it applies to the workplace and to behavioral healthcare.
• Excellent communication skills including writing appropriate reports, articles, white papers, and providing presentations to large audiences.

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Postdoctoral Fellow: HJF is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to support the Center for Deployment Psychology’s research portfolio including studies related to sleep and suicide ideation in military connected individuals. This position will be responsible for initiating and carrying out research projects in collaboration with CDP’s research team.

This position will be in support of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), which is based in Bethesda, MD. The Postdoctoral Fellow will assist with activities related to CDP’s mission, which is to lead the development of a community of culturally mindful and clinically competent providers through the delivery of high-quality training and education, the convening of experts, and the dissemination of research-based treatment and the latest topics in military behavioral health. CDP’s research broadly focuses on military mental health with projects supporting the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based psychotherapies, health services research to improve clinic processes and patient care, and patient focused research seeking to increase our understanding of the correlates, precipitants, and consequences of mental health disorders such as PTSD, insomnia, nightmares, and suicide ideation. Henry M. Jackson Foundation (HJF) provides administrative and management support to the Center. CDP strives to be the central hub for the Military Health System (MHS) in the development and implementation of training and education to clinicians in order to ensure that all service members, veterans, and their families receive quality behavioral healthcare that meets their unique needs.

Responsibilities:

• Manage elements of ongoing projects, ensuring compliance with good practice in relation to the conduct of research, and institutional ethics policies. Maintains effective and timely communication with scientific collaborators; serves as a representative of the Center and in this capacity, demonstrates strong interpersonal, communication, and conflict resolution skills.
• Undertake high quality research and scholarship, including contributing to drafting major grant proposals and/or leading on drafting smaller grant proposals related to military mental health.
• Develops and authors scientific reports for scholarly dissemination at professional meetings and in peer-reviewed publications. Furthers the CDP mission’s by contributing to blogs, podcasts, and/or white papers.
• Applicants must possess the ability to provide behavioral subject matter expertise that is culturally sensitive in a manner that is accessible and inclusive which demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of research design and methodology
• Knowledge of a broad range of behavioral health and public health research including but not limited to clinical trials methodology; suicide prevention research; suicide prevention assessment tools; cognitive behavior therapy, insomnia and sleep disorders research and treatments, and PTSD research and evidence-based treatments.
• Excellent general communication skills including writing appropriate reports, articles, white papers, and providing presentations to large audiences.
• Experience conducting statistical analyses in SPSS, Stata, or other statistical software
• 1-2 first author publications and previous contributions to written output, preferably peer-reviewed
• Proven ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively as part of a research team, and proven ability to meet research deadlines
• Evidence of good organizational skills, including effective time management
• Ability to obtain and maintain a T1/Public Trust background check

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Clinical Research Assistant I: HJF is seeking a Clinical Research Assistant I to perform data collection by conducting research interviews. The Clinical Research Assistant will recruit and screen subjects for research studies and collects baseline and follow up data from subjects. This is the first of four levels of clinical research assistants and works under the guidance and direction of senior staff.

This position will be in support of the research portfolios of the Center for Deployment Psychology and the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. The Research Assistant will support the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology (MPS) and its Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), which are based in Bethesda, MD. The Research Assistant will assist with activities in MPS. As an integral part of the School of Medicine, MPS is committed to excellence in psychological research during periods of both peace and war. Research programs include health disparities, suicide prevention, obesity, eating disorders, stigma, psychotherapy research, substance abuse, and risky behaviors among other topics related to clinical and medical psychology as well as military psychology.

Responsibilities:

• Supports the planning and implementation of multiple military mental health research studies while maintaining compliance with established standard operating procedures under supervision. Reviews tasks lists and ensures timely completion of project tasks. May screen and assist with consenting study subjects and/or data collection.
• Performs data entry for research projects; establishes and maintains databases; maintains clear and accurate project records, data files, inventories, and logbooks; and assists with the development of progress reports for studies as assigned in an accurate, timely, and efficient manner.
• Supports regulatory compliance of assigned projects to include assisting with amendments, protocol modifications or relevant correspondence for the protocol.
• Performs administrative duties such as: scheduling study appointments; performing scientific literature searches, identification, and retrieval; file management; and assisting in the preparation of grants, papers, and abstracts. Distributes manuscripts and reports to all scientific collaborators as required.

May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to follow detailed instructions.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills.
• Interest in working in military mental health research.
• A background/education in psychology, social work, or another health-related field.
• Ability to understand and utilize scientific terminology and research theory in both oral and written communications.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks under multiple PIs.
• Experience with a human use Institutional Review Board (IRB) and regulatory compliance in the research space preferred
• Ability to obtain and maintain a T1/Public Trust background check.

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