Behavioral Health Advisor (Traumatic Brain Injury Exp. Required)

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

NACLC (T3)

Job Family:

Scientists

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Behavioral Health, Clinical Care, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT’s Federal Health/ Military Health team is hiring a Behavioral Health Subject Matter Expert, with a focus on mild Traumatic Brain Injury, to join the Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence (TBICoE) located at HQ in Silver Spring, MD.

**Position is full-time, on-site**

As the traumatic brain injury (TBI) Pathway of Care manager within the Military Health System (MHS), TBICoE promotes state-of-the-science care from point-of-injury to reintegration for Service members, veterans, and their families to prevent and mitigate consequences of mild to severe TBI.  TBICoE unifies a system of TBI health care, reliably advancing the science for the warfighter and ready to meet future brain health challenges.

Learn More here --> Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence | Health.mil  

S/he is expected to perform with minimal direction and oversight in her/his areas of expertise and responsibility as part of a high-tempo office environment that is responsive to needs of DHA and DOD leadership, TBI clinicians/providers, brain health educators, and cognitive monitoring programmatic issues.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Serves as a TBICoE SME on the intersection of concussion and behavioral health outcomes.
• Demonstrates knowledge of research on emerging areas of clinical practice, brain health threats, and warfighter-relevant demand signals.
• Provides expertise and analysis to TBICoE senior leadership on issues of TBI research, clinical care and standards of care for patients with protracted behavioral health symptoms following military TBI.
• Collaborates with and receives direction from TBICoE leadership, DoD health care policy offices and other SMEs to assist in enhancing metrics for evaluation and standardization of TBI services and programs, as well as ongoing rehabilitation needs for behavioral health concerns after TBI.
• May provide input for development of training platforms/tools. When appropriate, provides direct training.
• Provides consultation to leadership in TBICoE, DoD and clinical programs regarding the evidence on concussion and behavior health evaluation, treatment and management, identification of gaps in evidence, the current and future needs in the military and future research requirements.
• Supports TBICoE researchers as a SME.
• May directly collaborate in TBICoE/DoD research projects.
• Attends and participates in scholarly, academic and scientific meetings related to mild TBI/concussion, behavioral health, brain health, blast, and/or cognitive monitoring.
• Must adhere to legal, professional and ethical codes with respect to confidentiality and privacy

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED (required):

• Professional degree [MD, DO, PhD, MD/PhD, OD or relevant terminal doctorate degree] with specialty training in TBI-related field (e.g., cognitive behavioral science, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, clinical neuropsychology, clinical psychology, etc).
• 5+ years of experience in healthcare and/or healthcare research required. Experience with TBI.
• Published in peer review publications and/or presentations at professional meetings
• Knowledge of TBI and statistics.
• Excellent oral and written communications.
• Must have strong collaborative and organizational skills.
• Must be able to pass a favorable T3 security investigation.

WHAT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER (preferred):

• Prior experience or knowledge of DoD and VA health care systems strongly preferred.
• Current or prior board certification in field of expertise may be granted preference.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $92,650 - $125,350. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA MD Silver Spring

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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