Social Services Assistant

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About the Position: This position is located within the Director of Mental Health, Social Work Services at Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia.

The primary purpose of the position is to provide follow up care supporting Mental Health Providers in a clinical setting on a highly specialized multidisciplinary treatment team dealing with mental health issues." This is a Direct Hire Solicitation Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: (1) processing referrals of mental health patients; (2) providing resources or referrals to clients; and (3) maintaining case records.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).

OR Education: One and a half years of graduate level education in a field directly related to the work of the position, such as Psychology, Human Services, Child & Family Welfare, Counseling (ex.

crisis, substance abuse, mental health, chemical dependence), Family and Community Services, Behavioral Science, Human Development, Social Work, Sociology, Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total semester hours minus 18) by 9. Add the two percentages. Major Duties:

• Provide follow up dealing with the identified high-risk population, supporting Behavioral Health Providers with commanders providing the best level of treatment available.
• Ensure through facilitation, negotiation, procurement, advocacy, communication, empowerment, quality care, and involvement necessary for the achievement of mutually developed treatment goals.
• Maintain ongoing comprehensive supportive care with identified high-risk soldiers during treatment.
• Bring to the attention of the appropriate provider patterns or problems, at the client level or system level to promote smooth transition of soldiers through the treatment program.
• Maintain ongoing follow-up with patients identified in caseload.
• Perform direct patient support, to include assisting clinical providers to access appropriate patient referrals and resources and ongoing education of soldier, appropriate team members.