Senior Social Worker (Suicide Prevention and Recovery Services)

Job Title

Social Work

Job Description

Major duties but are not limited to:

• Incumbent incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of Veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges.
• Incumbent is able to provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of Veterans with addictions, mental health diagnoses, and other health issues.
• Completes assessment, aids with advocacy, treatment planning, procurement of VA and community resources, and helps to coordinate aftercare planning to promote ongoing recovery.
• Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of practice and services in specialty areas, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services. Incumbent is able to demonstrate the ability to design changes based on empirical findings.
• Offers consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective practice skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff and students in the special area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or specialty certifications.
• Performs a wide range of services and provides technical assistance to State, local, and private agencies, and universities. Technical assistance provided to monitor activities and program reviews, and the development and analysis of information. In addition, the incumbent uses sound judgment in the interpretation of trends and patterns; the application of guidelines; and the recommendation of program enhancements. The incumbent performs program analysis, development, review, research, design, and contact work as possible with various agencies (public, DOD, state, etc.).
• The incumbent must possess the ability to organize work, set priorities, meet multiple deadlines, and evaluate assigned program area(s).

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 08:00 AM - 04:30 PM (although must be amenable to work outside normal tour of duty as a manager/supervisor to address emergent needs of Veterans/programs/facility)

Functional Statement #: 2121928F

Recruitment and Relocation Incentive: Yes-Authorized

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