Senior Social Worker (PACT)
Full-time
Senior Executive
1 day ago
Duties to include but not limited to: Conduct psychosocial assessments a.....
Duties to include but not limited to:
Conduct psychosocial assessments and make psychosocial diagnoses.
- Conduct mental health assessments and provide psychotherapy for the
amelioration of mental health conditions.
- Develop psychosocial treatment plans with attention to age specific
needs/concerns.
- Provide psychosocial interventions for individuals, groups and families.
- Utilize standardized instruments in the assessment of mental health conditions.
- Provide individual and group counseling.
- Provide marital and family counseling.
- Develop information and referral resources and services.
- Develop community linkages and coordinate the clinical application of community
services.
- Provide admission and discharge planning services.
- Provide care management and coordination services.
- Document in computerized medical record.
- Provide Veteran advocacy/Veteran rights services.
- Provide psychosocial crisis intervention services, with adherence to High Risk
protocol.
- Provide Veteran and family education services.
- Screen for substance abuse, tobacco use, depression, suicide risk, post-
- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), domestic violence/interpersonal violence, complete risk assessments, and provide treatment services.
- Screen for homelessness in Veterans and address housing needs.
- Provide education on advanced care planning, including assistance with
advance directive documents.
- Complete any additional screenings, as required.
- Place and complete consults.
- Conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments and formulate psychosocial
diagnoses utilizing a differential diagnostic scale.
- Conduct mental health assessment and make DSM diagnoses.
- Provide consultation to colleagues; render professional opinions based on
experience and expertise.
- Develop new models of psychosocial assessment or intervention and incorporate
complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment.
- Utilize outcome evaluations to further treatment and design system changes
Teach and mentor staff and students in the specialty area of practice to provide
supervision for licensure of for specialty certifications, to include but not limited to in-service education & continuing education presentations.
- Provide subject matter consultation to care line managers, colleagues and
students on Social Work qualification standards, practice standards,
competency, productivity and continuing education.
- Provide clinical supervision to those seeking advanced licensure based upon
state regulations.
- Pursue eligibility for academic appointment with VA academic affiliates
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Telework: Ad Hoc
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Starting at $109,897 Per Year (GS 12)
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