About this role
Role Overview
- Engage all quality improvement and staff meetings
- Conduct applied research and clinical investigations in clinical/behavioral health/organizational social work
- Consult with medical personnel, legal authorities, military commanders and school districts as required
- Maintain accurate medical records of all patients seen and produces reports of evaluation and/or treatment
- Participate in military specific training
- May include clinical supervision of unlicensed providers or trainees
- Participate in and successfully complete required DoD or service required training
- Contact referred patients to assess treatment adherence
- Use validated symptom inventories to assess current symptom severity
- Assess barriers to treatment adherence and help patient problem-solve solutions to barriers
- Provide patients with education regarding their mental health condition and treatment regimen
- Maintain patient information in a patient registry
- Maintain accurate and current notes in the electronic medical records of all patients contacted for review by the managing physician
- Routinely staffs difficult cases with the referring provider, behavioral health consultant and/or psychiatry consultant
- Performs case management functions
Requirements
- U.S. Citizenship
- DoD Secret or Top Secret Clearance or ability to obtain one
- Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) or equivalent (MSSW, MSSA) degree from a graduate school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
- Maintain a current, unrestricted clinical license to independently practice social work in any one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands
- Maintain credentialing requirements in good standing at a local MTF
- Minimum of two (2) years peer-reviewable clinical social work experience in a mental health setting
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of professional standards and ethics regarding the delivery of clinical social work services
- Experience in brief behavioral interventions.
Benefits
- 401K plan with company match
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- AD&D
- flexible spending account
- disability
- paid time off
- flexible work schedule