p>Essential Duties & Responsibilities: • Engage all quality improvement and staff meetings, conferences • 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 • This position may include clinical supervision of unlicensed providers or trainees • May be required to perform some, or all, of the following activities: • Participates in and successfully completes 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.
This Special Operations Licensed Clinical Social Worker will function within an operational unit, as a Behavioral Health Care Provider and is responsible for the application of social work procedures and techniques, including interviewing, behavioral assessment, and evidenced-based therapies, in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological and neuropsychological disorders using the following skills: individual, family and group psychotherapy, couple's therapy, alcohol and drug treatment evaluations.