Psychology Technician

US Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System; Forrest City (AR); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

US Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System is seeking Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

Applicants must have one-year specialized experience or graduate education in psychology-related fields, with experience in administering tests, applying regulations, and operating the agency's psychology data entry system.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level.
• Experience administering, scoring, distributing, and storing a variety of psychological tests.
• Experience researching, interpreting, and applying complex regulations, rules and laws regarding psychological procedures.

Responsibilities

• Experience implementing the BOP's psychology data entry system (PDS) and training staff.
• Experience obligating expenditures, preparing purchase orders, and maintaining department expenditures.

Skills

Psychology procedures

Test administration

Regulatory interpretation

Education

Graduate education in psychology-related field

Tools

PDS (psychology data entry system)

Job description

Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

Basic Requirements:

Applicants must have one-year specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level. Experience that involved the observation of and assistance in the application of techniques relating to behavior, capacities, traits, interests, and activities of either humans or, under laboratory conditions, animals. Experience may have been gained in connection with a program of research or direct services in psychology that gave a practical understanding of some of the principles, methods, and techniques of psychology needed to assist professional psychologists.

OR Education:

One year of graduate education or 27 quarter hours of graduate education in the related field of the position.

NOTE:

Graduate education or an internship meets the specialized experience required above GS-5 only in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position.

Experience:

Some examples of the qualifying experience are:

• Experience in administering, scoring, distributing, and storing a variety of psychological tests.
• Experience assisting in researching, interpreting, and applying a variety of complex regulations, rules and laws regarding psychological procedures and practices.
• Experience in implementation of the BOP's automated/computerized psychology data entry system including initial implementation of PDS, training of all psychology staff, routine data entry and retrieval, automated test scoring and reconciling discrepancies in the files.
• Experience in obligating expenditures, preparing purchase orders, requisitions, and maintaining accounting of department expenditures and adjustments.
• Experience in providing security escort for volunteers, guest speakers, and visitors including running NCIC background checks and preparing paperwork for volunteers, guest speakers and visitors.

OR

Combination of Education and Experience:

Equivalent combinations of education and experience are qualifying for all grade levels and positions for which both education and experience are acceptable.

If applicable, credit will be 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 consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.