General Therapist - Beckley, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs

Description

Summary

Social workers at this level are licensed or certified to independently practice social work. Incumbents are assigned to all program areas, including but not limited to: inpatient or outpatient medicine, surgery, mental health, neurology, rehabilitation medicine, and geriatrics. The employees provides professional, independent social work services in the assigned area orking in collaboration with the Veteran, family, caregiver, and interdisciplinary treatment team.

Duties

Social Worker (General Therapist):

• The social worker identifies family/caregiver stressors, conducts assessment and provides specific interventions.
• The incumbent provides case management and care coordination to facilitate appropriate delivery of health care services, incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
• He/she links the patient with services, resources, and opportunities, in order to maximize their independence, health, and well-being.
• The incumbent conducts timely assessment of at-risk patients in crisis to identify immediate needs, evaluate risk, and initiate safety plan as appropriate.
• The social worker provides interventions independently with patients and their families/caregivers who are experiencing a wide range of complicated medical, behavioral health, financial, legal, and psychosocial problems.
• They provide a range of interventions and treatment modalities which may include individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy.
• The incumbent will independently formulate and implement a treatment plan including measurable, achievable goals identifying the patients' needs, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and psychosocial acuity.