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Senior Social Worker - Emergency Department Mental Health Clinician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 50 days ago
About the Role
This position is organizationally located at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the Mental Health division as an Emergency Department (ED) Mental Health Clinician. The Senior Social Worker provides a full range of psycho-diagnostic services, including crisis/risk assessment and management, psychological and decision-making capacity assessment, and utilization appropriate psychotherapeutic techniques in providing care for Veterans receiving care in the ED
What You'll Do
- →Major duties of the ED Senior Social Worker Mental Health Clinician include but are not limited to: Clinical Responsibilities Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care.
- →Provides a full-range of psycho-diagnostic services, including assessment, and uses the most appropriate psychotherapeutic techniques in providing quality care.
- →Performs evaluations for the full range of mental health patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED), admitted to the Acute Mental Health Unit, and providing mental health consultation on the off-tours throughout the medical center.
- →Essential to this is reviewing the patient's electronic medical record, especially Mental Health and recent Primary Care notes Provides a full range of therapeutic interventions including individual psychotherapy and psychoeducational approaches.
- →Consults with medical center staff on a wide variety of patient care issues.
- →Addresses mental health patients' concerns in collaboration with ED staff, including the ED psychologist and on-call psychiatrist.
- →Completes mental health reminder screenings with an emphasis on assessment of suicidal and homicidal concerns.
- →Manages situations involving emergency detentions and police holds for intoxicated and involuntary patients.
- →Determines appropriateness of admission of patients to the MH Acute Unit in collaboration with ED physician, ED psychologist, and on-call psychiatrist as necessary for disposition/support/transportation for patients not appropriate for hospital admission.
- →Competes mental health reminder screenings with an emphasis on suicidal and homicidal concerns.
- →Collaborates with and provides assistance to the ED physician for patients with medical issues which would preclude admission to the MH Acute Unit.
- →Provides support off-tour to the MH Acute Unit and assists in patient transfer requests to the MH Acute Unit.
- →Addresses restraint and seclusion face-to-face needs including assessment and debriefing.
- →Completes telephone call-backs to patients recently discharged from the MH Acute Unit.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 91eb7d48-0406-468d-9700-37d3771d2bc1
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