Social Services Assistant

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is located at Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Behavioral Health in Tacoma, Washington.

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

Advance in Hire may be authorized. This is available for those candidates who are new to Federal service.

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 evaluating mental health clients to determine required services; facilitating psycho-educational or support groups; and maintaining patient files.

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 Social Work, Psychology, Human Services, Child and Family Welfare, Counseling, Family and Community Services, Behavioral Science, Human Development, Sociology, and 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.

The total must equal at least 100% to qualify. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.) 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.
• Responsible for ensuring 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.
• Perform direct patient support, to include assisting clinical providers to access appropriate patient referrals and resources and ongoing education of soldier, appropriate team members.
• Maintain ongoing follow-up with patients identified in caseload.