SOCIAL WORKER

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This is a Washington National Guard Title 5 Excepted Service Technician position: SOCIAL WORKER Location: 225th Air Defense Group Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington 98438 Air National Guard Units Appointment Type: Permanent, excepted service Advertised as: Title 5 May be used to fill one or more vacancies.

*Ensure you read this announcement in its entirety, complete all application requirements, and your USA Jobs profile name is accurate* GENERAL EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have at least 24 months experience in clinical social work assignments.

This experience demonstrates particular competencies of knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

Knowledge of social work theories, principles, techniques, and resources.

Must have specialized experience in professional social work that includes interviewing people to establish the nature and extent of their problems, helping them work-out plans for improving the situation, providing assistance and services, referring them to community resources and other organizations as indicated, and assisting them to understand and modify their own patterns of behavior when appropriate.

Except as stated above, no other substitution of education for specialized experience is allowed.*Completion of the Air Force Social Work Internship Program may be substituted for 12 months of the specialized experience requirement.

OR 1 year equivalent to at least GS-11. ***You must provide your last or latest SF50 to qualify under this rule. Major Duties:

A GS-0185-12, SOCIAL WORKER: Actively supports the commander's leadership team in addressing the psychological health of their installation.

Provides strategic planning and leadership to implement an ANG comprehensive psychological health strategic plan.

Assist leadership in understanding the interface between psychological health and operational readiness, and the role of the DPH in developing and helping leadership apply psychological health solutions to functional/operational problems.

Encourage and coach unit leadership to actively promote psychological health and help-seeking as part of the wingman culture at the wing.

Consult with leadership on workplace issues identified by unit leadership, (e.g., unit cohesiveness, conflict in the unit, unit stressors, etc).

Consultation with leadership may include, but is not limited to, coaching and change management.

Provide ANG PHP briefing to newly-appointed commanders and others in leadership positions as they assume new leadership roles, to include key unit leadership; including, Group, and Squadron Commanders and First Sergeants.

Conducts assessments, routine and crisis evaluations, psycho-diagnostic assessments, provides short-term, evidence-based problem resolution strategies and services.

Provides 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 NG members and their families.

Applies professional knowledge of the principles, theories, procedures, and practices of social work to conduct needs assessments and/or intake evaluations on a limited but routine and emergency basis in accordance with applicable USAF and DoD guidelines.

On occasion, conducts comprehensive psycho-diagnostic evaluations to help clients resolve problems and to address more complex (interrelated bio psychosocial) diagnostic issues.

Prepares written evaluation reports and yield diagnoses from the current version of the International Classification of Diseases and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Accomplishes clinical intake interviews with clients, to include family history, biopsychosocial history, developmental and health histories, and presenting problems together with any relevant secondary information.

Designs, develops, coordinates, and implements prevention and community outreach and education programs.

Implements community organization strategies in collaboration with the Integrated Delivery System (IDS) Team and other key organizations to increase awareness of psychological health, develop coordinated plans for reducing risk factors for individuals and within the community, and build and enhance a general culture that promotes psychological health and wellness.

Develops and provides access to primary prevention services to inform and educate base leadership and the ANG community at large about the dynamics, treatment, and life skills and behaviors associated with psychological illness and methods to improve wellness.

Develops and provides access to secondary preventive support services and psycho-educational skills-development activities such as parenting skills, stress management, change management, anger management, financial/ money management, support groups for single parents, and couples communication.

Responsible for marketing and marketing evaluation activities. Serves as primary consultant and advisor on methods to successfully market the ANG PHP.

Formulates strategies to generate interest, acceptance, and participation by Air National Guard community consumers, resource suppliers, and eligible National Guard Airmen and family members regarding psychological health services and community prevention for the general population.

Employs social marketing of primary and secondary prevention interventions to promote utilization of military and non-military resources and services.

Provides professional consultation, advice, education, and training to other military and non-military health care professionals, medical personnel, military commanders/senior leaders, wing personnel and their family members, and community agencies concerning primary and secondary prevention programs.

Provides consultation to the commanders and operational leadership to promote well- being, improve resilience, and increase personal and unit combat readiness.

Prepares agenda for meetings, compiles statistical data, and prepares a variety of recurring reports. Develops meeting agendas.

Tracks suicide prevention, maltreatment and other behavioral health program data, prepares reports, and participates in writing narrative interpretations of analyses. Other duties as assigned.