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Social Work Psychotherapist (BHIP)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6), Fredericksburg Health Care Center (HVAMC), under the Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Service Line. This Social Work Psychotherapist position is aligned with the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program/Outpatient Mental Health Services and and provides psychotherapy services, intakes, and crisis intervention in a team context.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Complete psychosocial assessments and diagnostic interviews to assess the full range of mental health conditions and diagnoses.
- →Use social work clinical training, insight, and experience to interpret data to identify treatment options..
- →Implement treatment modalities, provide skill-based and evidenced-based psychotherapies in group and individual therapy for veterans and their families in the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) team, and as needed.
- →Serve veterans who tend to have serious frequent and severe crises, lack family or adequate community support network, be poor at self-monitoring, frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment and have significant deficits in coping skills and require continuing professional psychological support.
- →Use medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures, including acute, chronic trauma and PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, anxiety and adjustment disorders, personality disorders, psychotic spectrum disorders, etc. as well as common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology.
- →Be an active member of the BHIP team who contributes to program development, consultation, and treatment planning within an interdisciplinary treatment team.
- →Establish and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with veterans served by the BHIP team and Community Based Outpatient Clinics.
- →Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing with people from varied backgrounds.
- →Serve as a liaison and consultant for veterans and their families regarding community resources, VA benefits, VA specialty programs, and advanced directives.
- →Enter all veteran/family contacts in the electronic record using appropriate formats and templates.
- →Provide case management services to veterans and their families throughout the continuum of care.
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UUTotal Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Work Schedule: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Monday - Friday Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized Telework: Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 00000
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 dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
Job ID: 3825b4ea-dad5-43da-abc4-e2f99b673546
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