Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Pediatric

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DESCRIPTION

Decypher is seeking a Licensed Clinical Social Worker to support JBSA-Lackland, San Antonio, TX.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate appropriate referrals to community and other Government agencies for services.

• Independently assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of patients and their family members and formulate and implement a treatment plan, identifying the patient's problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills and assistance needed, in collaboration with the patient, family and interdisciplinary treatment team.

• Independently conduct psychosocial assessments and provide psychosocial treatment to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational and other diverse backgrounds.

• Use medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities and treatment procedures. This includes acute, chronic and traumatic illnesses/injuries, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology.

• Implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical and social problems to achieve treatment goals.

• Independently provide counseling and/or psychotherapy services to individuals, groups, couples, and families. Must practice within the bounds of the license or certification.

• Provide consultation services to other staff about the psychosocial needs of patients and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and compliance with treatment.

• Participate in professional peer review case conferences, research studies, or other organizations required at the MTF.

Additional general duties include:

• Responsible for and apply social work procedures and techniques in the evaluation and treatment of psychological/psychiatric disorders. Activities include, but are not limited to, the following:
  

  • Responsible for and provide individual, family and group psychotherapy, and couples therapy.

  • Maintain accurate and current notes in the outpatient medical records of all patients seen, as appropriate, and produces reports of evaluation and/or treatment as required.

  • Consults with medical personnel, legal authorities, military commanders and school districts, as required.

  • Attends and participates in meetings during normal duty hours and professional staff conferences and other appropriate professional activities such as, but not limited to the following: quality improvement meetings, commander's staff meetings, primary care staff meetings, and others required by applicable regulations, MTF guidance, or as directed by department leadership.

  • Participates in military specific training and evaluations (e.g., training to perform security clearances, use of the Air Force Guide to Managing Suicidal Behavior, pre-post deployment screening, PTSD, and combat stress) and others as directed by the Flight Commander or Air Force policy.

  
  
• Child, Adolescent and Family Social Work Services.

  • Evaluation. Evaluate children from infancy through adolescence, to include conducting child and family interviews. Perform psychosocial evaluations to assess and/or treat emotional/behavior problems, educational/academic problems, attention problems, organic disorders, eating disorders, psychotic disorders, social and interpersonal dysfunction, physical/sexual/emotional abuse and neglect, personality dysfunction and drug/alcohol abuse.

  • Treatment. Provide treatment across a range of modalities to include Psychotherapy, play, group and family therapy with all aged children and adolescents. Treat children and adolescents with adjustment disorders, oppositional and non-compliant behavior, attention deficit disorders, anxiety disorders and phobias, eating disorders, elimination disorders, school-related problems, developmental delay, autism spectrum disorders, childhood psychosis and affective disorders, abuse and other trauma (either psychological or physical), and support the psychological management of medical problems. Provide varied levels of intervention, including individual, parent and family therapy.

  • Consultation. Consult with other individuals and organizations to include other hospital services (e.g., Pediatrics, Neurology, Social Work), public schools, courts, the Exceptional Family Member Program and social services agencies regarding specific case management and programmatic issues affecting children and families. Provide consultation and feedback to parents in order to relay results of treatment. Collaborate with other professionals in order to provide social work services to children, and in making interventions within the child's psychosocial environment. Provide consultation which includes not only traditional clinical interventions that emphasize delimiting and remediating psychopathology in children and adolescents, but prevention, and the encouragement of psychological health.

  • Training. Attend and provide didactic seminars in the areas of normal growth and development, consultation-liaison and psychotherapeutic approaches to child psychopathology.

  • Provide consultation and workshops with parents, schools, hospital staff, and other personnel who work with children and adolescents on the theory and practice of working with this population. Provide training to clinical psychology.

  
  
  
  

QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree: Master's degree in Social Work (MSW)
• Education: Graduate from a School of Social Work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
• Experience: Have a minimum of 2 years full-time experience (individual and group experience) within the last 3 years performing clinical social work in Pediatrics within a mental health setting, (e.g., inpatient or outpatient treatment center or MTF). In addition, CP with at least 1 year experience working with active-duty service members and/or veterans are preferred. CP without the requisite experience "may" be considered on a case-by-case basis if they have documented training/ certification in modalities such as: Cognitive Processing Therapy, (CPT), Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE), in addition to modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). As required to meet clinical competency requirements specified in the Service-specific credentialing instructions.
• Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• US Citizen
• NACI background check