Senior Social Worker - Mental Health

Senior Social Worker

The Senior Social Worker practices in the Behavioral Health & Sciences (BH&S) clinical settings to provide mental health services as the licensed clinical social worker. In this position the duties may include serving as the case/care manager and psychotherapist to a patient population with highly complex health, substance use, and mental health problems. The Senior Social Worker is assigned to work within an interdisciplinary team to provide these services ensuring Veterans timely access to mental health and psychosocial services. The incumbent's primary duties are within the outpatient substance use disorder clinic at Lebanon the incumbent may also provide care at Outpatient VA Clinics, in residential programs, the emergency department, Primary Care offices, inpatient wards or community settings. The incumbent will function with very little supervisory control. The incumbent must demonstrate perform specialized treatment of complex physical and mental illness for Veterans utilizing advanced clinical skills and be able to function independently. The incumbent incorporates complex multiple causation in treatment of Veteran patients within the outpatient mental health clinic, including making psychosocial assessments, providing case management and providing psychotherapy within approved scope of practice. Specific tasks may include: triage, evaluation and psychosocial assessment, treatment planning, and coordination of care for patients in the outpatient clinic, providing individual and group psychotherapy, and consultation with other program areas and staff as appropriate. The Senior Social Worker is able to provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of Veterans with serious medical, substance, and psychiatric disorders primarily on an outpatient basis. Provides services that access the continuum of care. Performs additional duties as assigned.