Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Jobisite / America Jobs

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Licensed Clinical Social Worker

at Jobisite in United Kingdom

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Places of Performance: RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth, United Kingdom

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General Description:
Licensed Clinical Social Worker shall provide a full range of professional social work services within operational Air Force (AF) squadrons. Serves as a member of a multidisciplinary Integrated Operational Support (IOS) team directly supporting the Line of the Air Force (LAF) mission assigned program with the goal of building resiliency, enhancing human performance and improving unit mission effectiveness. Clinical and administrative duties focus on education and prevention, psychosocial assessment and diagnosis, and evidenced-based interventions and treatment.

Specific Tasks:
• Observes and participates in squadron activities in order to identify psychosocial stressors and barriers to optimal human performance. Integrates into the full spectrum of squadron activities observing squadron personnel in the conduct of their duties across the full span of worksites, processes, and shifts. To the maximum extent allowed by policy, physical ability, and safety, participates in squadron activities being observed to include all mission sets, functional teams, duty locations, and work shifts. Establishes a rapport with unit airmen. Assesses workplace conditions, processes, and practices for sources of psychosocial stressors. Assesses worksites, unit policies and practices, and team dynamics for barriers to optimal psychosocial health and performance of individuals and groups. Uses available data (medical, safety, fitness, etc.) and interviews with unit personnel to focus observations and inform analysis of risks. Documents observations and assessments of risk for use in development of mitigation strategies.
• Develops and implements initiatives to mitigate psychosocial stressors and risks and optimize airmen performance. Utilizes information gathered through direct observations within squadron worksites, interviews with squadron personnel, and objective medical, safety, and fitness data, in order to select or develop evidence based initiatives to mitigate identified hazards and barriers to optimal health and performance, and to enhance resiliency. Collaborates with other IOS members and line unit personnel in selecting and/or developing riskmitigation and performance-enhancement strategies and in developing the Unit Action Plan. Collaborates with other support agencies to ensure that initiatives are implemented IAW Department of Defense (DoD) and AF regulations. Uses expert knowledge to effectively administer, score, analyze, and interpret psychological measures, and data. If desired by line squadron leadership, trains and provides consultation to appointed unit representatives; i.e., Unit Champions, designated by the squadron to ensure mitigation strategies endure beyond the end of the integration cycle.
• Conducts psych diagnostic assessments and provides evidence-based psychotherapy. Applies professional knowledge of the principles, theories, procedures, and practices of social work to conduct evaluations in accordance with accepted standards of professional practice and applicable USAF and DoD guidelines. Conducts comprehensive psychodiagnosis evaluations to address complex (interrelated biopsychosocial) diagnostic and treatment issues. Prepares written evaluation reports with clinical impressions and recommendations. Accomplishes clinical intake interviews with patients, to include family history, biopsychosocial history, developmental history, and presenting problems together with any relevant secondary information. Social assessments may include financial, adaptive, social functioning of family, social relationships and situations, and any other contributory information. Assesses individuals to explore the development of behavior patterns, mechanisms, and symptoms; determines the facts concerning patients’ problems and the underlying causes to assess the needs of the individual and/or family. Uses and interprets various psychological assessment measures. Integrates findings and formulates clinical information to establish a mental health diagnosis using guidelines such as the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association. Performs risk assessments and determines degree of danger posed by patients. Responsible for knowledge of, and practice according to, state and professional licensing and ethical practice guidelines. Applies Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan (SOAP) format properly to record assessment and treatment of patients’ psychosocial functioning. Meets Military Treatment Facility (MTF) criteria for peer review and records reviews of compliance with standards of practice. Provides evidence based psychotherapy on cases for a wide variety of complex psychiatric/social problems. Formulates and establishes treatment plans. Annotates adjustments to treatment plan as required over the course of therapy. As indicated, applies multiple therapeutic techniques including individual, group, couples, family, supportive, crisis intervention, and behavioral therapies or other recognized treatment strategies based upon accepted theories, principles, and practices of social work. Carries professional responsibility for findings, interpretations, decisions, recommendations, reports, and services. Ensures treatment case records meet the standards of The Joint Commission (TJC), Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and/or other MTF-sanctioned accreditation agencies for patient care. Promotes and preserves a psychotherapeutic atmosphere among the professional treatment team.
• Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft.
• Shall be required to travel in support of providing services in other than primary location, in order to attend conferences and training seminars to maintain knowledge and proficiency of current and best commercial practices, as requested.
• Completion of appropriate clinical and administrative duties may involve “after hours” care or work in addition to regular duties.
• The hours required to be worked under this are not 8-5 standard working hours. This contract is for flexible working hours and will include on call hours. All hours to be worked will be pre-arranged with the customer with a minimum of 3 days notice for on call days. Those days require 24-hour response.
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