Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker for  Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, DC 20032

Child, Adolescent, and Family Social Work Services

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker  to provide care to active duty military members and their families at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, District of Columbia.

THE CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER: 

• Responsible for and apply social work procedures and techniques in the evaluation and treatment of psychological/psychiatric disorders.
• Provide counseling and/or psychotherapy services to individuals, groups, and families.
• • • Implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical, and social problems to achieve treatment goals.

QUALIFICATIONS OF THE CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER:

• Degree/Education: Must hold a Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) degree from a school of social work fully accredited by CSWE.
• Experience :
  • Have a minimum of two (2) years within the past five (5) years in the independent practice of clinical social work in a mental health setting working with an adult population, or with children and teens if specifically working with that population.
• Licensure/Registration: Must maintain a current, unrestricted clinical license to practice social work in any one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• US Citizenship is required (for access to government computer systems).
• BLS for Healthcare Providers American Heart Assoc or American Red Cross

Child, Adolescent and Family Social Work Services

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  • Evaluation: Evaluate children from infancy through adolescence, to include conducting child and family interviews. Perform psychosocial evaluations to assess and/or treat emotional/behavior problems, educational/academic problems, attention problems, organic disorders, eating disorders, psychotic disorders, social and interpersonal dysfunction, physical/sexual/emotional abuse and neglect, personality dysfunction and drug/alcohol abuse.
  • Treatment: Provide treatment across a range of modalities to include Psychotherapy, play, group and family therapy with all aged children and adolescents. Treat children and adolescents with adjustment disorders, oppositional and non-compliant behavior, attention deficit disorders, anxiety disorders and phobias, eating disorders, elimination disorders, school-related problems, developmental delay, pervasive developmental disorders, childhood psychosis and affective disorders, abuse and other trauma (either psychological or physical), and support the psychological management of medical problems. Provide varied levels of intervention, including individual, parent, and family therapy.
  • Consultation: Consult with other individuals and organizations to include other hospital services (e.G., Pediatrics, Neurology, Social Work), public schools, courts, the Exceptional Family Member Program, and social services agencies regarding specific case management and programmatic issues affecting children and families. Provide consultation and feedback to parents in order to relay results of treatment.
  • Collaborate with other professionals in order to provide social work services to children, and in making interventions within the child' s psychosocial environment. Provide consultation which includes not only traditional clinical interventions that emphasize delimiting and remediating psychopathology in children and adolescents, but prevention, and the encouragement of psychological health.
  • Training: Attend and provide didactic seminars in the areas of normal growth and development, consultation-liaison, and psychotherapeutic approaches to child psychopathology.
  • Provide consultation and workshops with parents, schools, hospital staff, and other personnel who work with children and adolescents on the theory and practice of working with this population. Provide training to clinical psychology residents and post-doctoral child psychology fellows, as required.

Hours:

• The Clinical Social Worker is a full-time position
• M-F, 40hrs per week

MDPerm is an Equal Opportunity Employer. MDPerm does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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