Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional
Duties include:
- Provides rapid triage, problem-focused assessments, and time-limited interventions including but not limited to psychoeducation as well as brief individual and group psychotherapy.
- Provides scheduled and impromptu consultative services and psychoeducation regarding a wide range of mental health and behavioral medicine concerns to patients and non-mental health staff regarding patients.
- Performs routine brief assessments, including but not limited to the PHQ-9, PCL, AUDITC, GAD-7, etc.
- Provides brief mental health and behavioral interventions that are evidence based, including but not limited to behavioral medicine interventions for tobacco cessation, weight management, coping with chronic illness, sleep hygiene, etc.
- Performs routine and in-depth mental health evaluations, including intake assessments.
- Provides evidence-based psychotherapy and other therapeutic interventions utilizing VA based guidance and guidelines.
- Provides a wide range of therapeutic interventions for patients, including individual, couples, and group psychotherapy.
- Provides brief interventions in the area of substance use disorders.- Liaisons/advocates on behalf of PCMHI and/or Veteran/caregiver between settings of care, both internal and external to the VA.
- Provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences and serves as liaison to family members, as needed
- Independently identifies high-risk patients and connects with needed resources and services, as needed.
- Consults, collaborates, and coordinates with other staff who provide care to Veteran, routinely consulting with Primary Care Providers and other PACT members about plan of care for patients
- Reviews relevant data, assesses the data, develops, and implement ideas for improvement.
- Serves as social work champion for treatment planning, discharge planning, and psychosocial and psychotherapeutic needs.
- Provides clinical supervision to social work trainees.
- Serves as a consultant to one or more Vet Center(s), including but not limited to the Vet Centers located in Detroit, Pontiac, Dearborn, and Macomb- Communicates with National, VISN, Facility-level leadership, and other stakeholders.
- Communicates regularly with the VISN-level PCMHI POCs and other PCMHI Coordinators in the VISN, as well as local mental health and national PCMHI leadership to remain knowledgeable about policies and trends related to PCMHI.
- Responds to requests for information about local PCMHI programming from VA's Central Office's Office of Mental Health Services and from VISN- Serves on Medical Center/Healthcare System, VISN, and/or National VA committees or task forces, as assigned by the Supervisor or the Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health.
- Represents social work on decision-making committees at the Medical Center or Healthcare System, as assigned by the Supervisor or the Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health.
- Represents the Medical Center or Healthcare System at professional/program community group/events and committees.
- Involvement in training program didactics for trainees of various disciplines and levels, as assigned.
- Other duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66
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Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 93052A
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
