Senior Social Worker (PTSD Clinical Team)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Social Worker (Advanced Practice) assigned to an Outpatient PTSD Clinical Team

Description

This Senior Social Worker position supports an outpatient Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Clinical Team by providing recovery-oriented, evidence-based care to Veterans with PTSD and related anxiety disorders. You will apply specialized PTSD and trauma recovery knowledge, deliver measurement-based care, and develop treatment plans in collaboration with the Veteran, their family/support system, and the interdisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an Advanced Practice-level Senior Social Worker on the Outpatient PTSD Clinical Team (PCT)

• Use evidence-based interventions and measurement-based care to monitor the impact of interventions

• Provide psychosocial assessments and develop treatment plans collaboratively

• Perform differential diagnosis using complex multiple causation within approved clinical privileges/scope of practice

• Lead and deliver individual and group therapy, psychoeducational groups, crisis intervention, advocacy, and high-quality case management

• Conduct outreach and coordinate linkages to VA and community providers as needed

• Identify high-risk patients and provide case management within PCT

• Provide crisis intervention, coordinate family conferences, and act as a liaison to family members as permitted

• Consult with other staff on Veterans’ psychosocial needs and the effects of psychosocial issues on health care adherence

• Participate in quality improvement initiatives (including SAIL), peer reviews, chart reviews, staff education, clinical guideline development, and ongoing quality assurance/continuing education

Benefits

• 37–50 days of annual paid time off per year (annual leave, sick leave, and paid federal holidays)

• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave after 12 months of employment

• Childcare subsidy eligibility after 60 days for full-time employees below the income threshold

• Traditional federal pension (with vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% employer contributions

• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance options

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases

Work schedule note: alternative evenings and Saturdays (subject to facility need).