Social Worker; Title

Job Title

Social Worker (Title
5), GS-0185-12

As a Social Worker (Title
5), GS-0185-12, you will:

• Provide operational leadership consultation, direct client services, community capacity building, preventive, remedial and support services aimed at improving and sustaining the psychological health of Air National Guard (ANG) military members and their families.
• Provide strategic planning and leadership to implement a comprehensive psychological health plan.
• Participate in community activities to incorporate complex strategies that enhance community strengths, implement community problem-solving methods, and forge community connection so as to promote psychologically healthy lifestyles.
• Conduct assessments, routine, and crisis evaluations, psycho-diagnostic assessments, provide short-term, evidence-based problem resolution strategies and services.
• Provide on-site and telephonic access to psychological health assessments and individual consultation to facilitate coordination of clinical, counseling, and other services promoting the psychological health of members and their families.
• Apply professional knowledge of principles, theories, procedures, and practices of social work to conduct needs assessments and/or intake evaluations on a routine and emergency basis.
• Prepare written evaluation reports and yield diagnoses.
• Accomplish clinical intake interviews with clients, to include family history, social history, developmental, and health histories.
• Conduct social assessment that may include financial, adaptive, social functioning of family, social relationships and situations.
• Assess individuals to explore the development of behavior patterns, mechanisms, and symptoms.
• Perform risk assessments and determine degrees of danger posed by patients.
• Screen records and personnel for security clearances and make administrative recommendations.
• Apply multiple counseling techniques including individual, group, couples, family, supportive, crisis intervention, and behavioral interventions based upon accepted theories and principles.
• Provide a wide range of counseling measures that are geared toward securing cognitive and behavioral adjustments by recognizing and resolving problems relating to the client's attitudes toward themselves, family, and associates.
• Perform fitness for duty assessments, initiate physical profiles, recommends duty restrictions, conduct pre/post deployment clearings and deployment health assessment closeouts.

This is NOT an all-inclusive list of duties.