Job Description
Job Description
Description :
Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are tasked with staffing The 92nd Medical Group at Fairchild AFB near Spokane with Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs). The LCSWs are expected to perform the following :
- Conduct psychosocial assessments and provide psychosocial treatment to a wide variety of active-duty personnel from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds.
- Provide counseling and / or psychotherapy services to individuals and groups.
- Provide consultation services to other staff about the psychosocial needs of service members and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and compliance with treatment.
- Evaluate own practice through participation in a professional peer review case conferences or other organized means.
- Use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities and treatment procedures. This includes acute, chronic and traumatic illness / injuries, common medications and their effects / side effects, and medical terminology.
- Implement evidenced based treatment modalities in working with individuals and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical and social problems to achieve treatment goals.
- Responsible for and apply social work procedures and techniques in the evaluation and treatment of psychological / psychiatric disorders.
- Responsible for and provide individual, family and group psychotherapy, and couples therapy.
- Consult to medical personnel, legal authorities, military commanders and school districts, as required.
- Maintain accurate and current notes in both the mental health records and patient medical records of all service members seen, as appropriate, and produce reports of evaluation and / or treatment, as required.
- Provides Clinical Social Work services to the active-duty population. Evaluation.
- Evaluate active-duty personnel.
- 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.
- Provide treatment across a range of modalities to include evidenced based psychotherapy in individual and group settings with active-duty personnel.
- Treat service members with adjustment disorders, oppositional and non-compliant behavior, attention deficit disorders, anxiety disorders and phobias, eating disorders, elimination disorders, work-related problems, developmental delay, pervasive developmental disorders, 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, spouse and family therapy.
- Consult with other individuals and organizations to include other hospital services (i.e. intensive outpatient and residential facilities and across internal medical services).
- Collaborate with other professionals in order to provide social work services to service members, and in making interventions within their psychosocial environment.
- Provide consultation which includes not only traditional clinical interventions that emphasize delimiting and remediating psychopathology in active-duty personnel, but prevention, and the encouragement of psychological health.
- Attend and provide didactic seminars in the areas of military life, deployment, and reintegration, consultation-liaison and psychotherapeutic approaches to psychopathology.
- Provide consultation and workshops to military units, hospital staff, and other personnel who work with service members on the theory and practice of working with this population.
- Provide training to clinical psychology residents and post- doctoral psychology fellows, as required.
Requirements :
Must hold a Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) degree from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)Have a minimum of two (2) years within the past five (5) years in the independent practice of clinical social work in a mental health setting working with an adult population, or with children and teens if specifically working with that population.Must possess the ability to independently. o Must possess the knowledge and experience to use computer software applications for drafting documents, data management, and tracking, especially those programs in use by DoD (training will be provided).Demonstrate a working knowledge of professional standards and ethics regarding the delivery of clinical social work services.Maintain a current, unrestricted clinical license to practice social work in any one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands. A clinical social work license is defined as a license that allows the Social Worker to practice independently without clinical supervision.Valid BLS