SOCIAL WORKER

Social Worker Duties

As a SOCIAL WORKER, GS-0185-11, you will provide preventive, remedial, and support services aimed at improving and sustaining the psychological health of National Guard (NG) military members and their families. Major Duties - This is NOT an all-inclusive list:

• Coordinate with the National Guard community serving the military and non-military agencies to promote timely information exchange, coordinate collaborative prevention efforts, and establish and maintain an extensive array of resources, associations, and community partnerships.
• Participates in community activities to incorporate complex strategies that enhance community strengths, reduces broad-based community needs, implements community problem solving methods, and forges community connections to promote psychologically healthy lifestyles.
• Ensures that curriculums and community intervention initiatives for each prevention program are research-based and supported by the literature.
• Participates in relevant committee meetings in an effort to provide input and obtain information related to psychological health issues.
• Liaison between the military and non­ military community agencies, including medical agencies, schools, shelters, child care, and family support centers providing access to services that can improve and/or sustain the psychological health of National Guardsmen and families.
• Conducts needs assessments, intake evaluations, and psycho-diagnostic assessments.
• Applies professional knowledge of the principles, theories, procedures, and practices of social work to conduct needs assessments and/or intake evaluations on limited but routine basis in accordance with applicable DoD guidelines.
• Prepares written evaluation reports with clinical impressions and recommendations.
• Accomplishes intake interviews to include family history, bio-psychosocial history, developmental and health histories, and presenting problems together with any relevant secondary information, screens records and personnel for security clearances and makes administrative recommendations.
• Coordinates, and implements prevention and community outreach and education programs.
• Conducts comprehensive needs assessments and Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunity, and Threat (SWOT) analyses that form the basis for program development activities and action plans.
• Develop, teach, and provide oversight for classes that promote education and skill-building to enhance psychological and physical health.
• Evaluate training opportunities, and professional development activities. Provides timely, effective, and accurate training to mental health providers and other medical personnel on psychological health matters, resources, and interventions.