Senior Social Worker

Outpatient Mental Health Senior Social Worker

Major Duties of the Outpatient Mental Health Senior Social Worker include but are not limited to:

• Provides a full range of psychodiagnostics services and uses the most appropriate evidenced-based psychotherapeutic, crisis intervention, and suicide risk assessment techniques in providing quality care
• Independently conducts psychosocial assessment and develops treatment plans in collaboration with Veteran and the interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Measures outcomes to treatment interventions and monitors treatments offered for efficacy.
• Independently identifies high-risk patients and provides case management services, crisis intervention services, family conferences, and interdisciplinary or BHIP team meetings.
• Maintains complete, accurate, timely, and confidential medical record documentation of patient information.
• Participates on local, VISN, and/or National councils, committees, and work groups as designated.
• Routinely consults with multidisciplinary team members and other partnered staff about plan of care for patients.
• Conducts effective brief consultations.
• Routinely provides feedback (verbal and/or written) to administration, team members, and collaborating staff in response to patient care questions or same day concerns.
• Provides education and informal training to peers and collaborating staff on MH and related issues, as well as consultation on tips for successful care management and patient facilitation.
• Networks with a variety of programs both within the health care system and the community (homeless coalition, nonprofit agencies, addiction treatment organizations, housing authority, etc.) to facilitate patient care.

Academic/Teaching/Training

• Supervises discipline interns or practicum students in accord with training program policies and accrediting agency requirements.
• Provides staff and student didactic training and consultation as requested in content area of scholarly and/or clinical expertise.
• May supervise or train allied health providers in accord with facility and regulatory standards regarding such training.

Program Evaluation

• Participates in program evaluation and/or research activities.
• Reviews program analysis, provides appropriate assessments of outcomes, and make recommendations as needed or upon administrative request.
• Assists in the development and implementation of follow-up systems to track completed tasks or other issues and concerns relating to MH and related program functions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.