Total 5 Senior Executive level Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Tallahassee, Florida

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf
Social Work: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Social-Worker-Career-Flyer.pdf

Duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Interviews veterans and their family members/significant others to establish facts about the veteran's situation, presenting problems and their causes, and the impact of such problems on the veterans functioning and health as part of a comprehensive psychosocial assessment.
• Interprets and explains VA's treatment and benefit programs.
• Reviews all data, subjective and objective, makes a clinical assessment, identifying needs and strengths.
• Effectively uses professional skill, objectivity and insight.
• Uses advanced clinical training, insight, and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options.
• Assesses high risk factors, acuity and needs for services.
• Monitors and assists veterans to maintain appointments at VAMC and other community agencies for medical, psychiatric, substance abuse, vocational and other services consistent with veteran's goals associated with healthful independent living.
• Refers veterans to appropriate VA and other government/community services including: local shelters, food banks, employment services, veteran's benefits, and social security applications.
• Assists veterans who encounter problems obtaining services from the VA and other service delivery agencies, by increasing their problem solving/social interaction skills.
• Independently evaluates the client's situation, including the veteran's reaction to it and ability to deal with it, and arrives at a reasoned conclusion.
• Based on the psychosocial assessment, uses professional judgement and advanced practice skills to make a psychosocial diagnosis.
• Develops psychosocial treatment plans in coordination with interdisciplinary team members, including goals for psychosocial clinical treatment.
• Identifies eligible candidates for VASH from the HCHV Program.
• Assists HCHV staff during outreach activities including field interviews, assessment and referrals for homeless veterans contacted in the community, shelters, "on the streets," as well as those who are referred by the VET Center or the HCHV Office.
• Establishes a continuing relationship with the veteran, evaluating progress towards goals and adjusting the treatment plan as appropriate.
• Social Work Service covers in-patient hospital weekend/holiday shifts. All Social Workers are assigned a 5 hour weekend shift twice a year.

The Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (LPMHC) is under the Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences Service and works with and clinically supports Acute Care Mental Health, which includes an inpatient psychiatric unit, inpatient medicine, and the emergency department. In addition to providing direct patient care, the Senior LPMHC functions as the facility Baker Act Coordinator and has supportive administrative duties.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Providing a full range of mental health services to patients with complex mental, medical, and psychosocial problems in Acute Care Mental Health.
• Completing Suicide Risk Identification to include CSREs, Safety Plans, and consultation with the Suicide Prevention Team as needed.
• Providing evidence-based psychotherapy services including individual, family, couples, or group psychotherapy and behavioral modification for addressing behavioral and psychological symptoms. Has advanced skills in specialized interventions and treatment modalities for Veterans with complex needs.
• Educating patients, family members, and significant others.
• Functioning as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team by providing consultation and treatment recommendations to professional staff within the medical units, inpatient psychiatric unit, ED, and community providers, concerning clinical assessment findings and appropriate treatment plans for the patients in his/her care.
• Developing, implementing, and documenting the treatment plan for patients seen, including prompt completion of clinical reminders.
• Functioning independently as a member of the West Palm Beach VAMC Medical Staff, with full clinical privileges. The incumbent assumes complete professional responsibility for his/her clinical assessment findings, patient care decisions, and documentation.
• Appropriately referring patients to other disciplines for treatment outside purview and expertise of a LPMHC.
• Providing clinical supervision to LPMHC staff and/or LPMHC trainees.
• Developing behavioral health related training curriculum and conducting trainings for clinical staff as needed.
• Complying with all regulations of VHA and ensuring clinical documentation complies with service policies.
• Participating in ongoing performance improvement initiatives.

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf
Social Work: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Social-Worker-Career-Flyer.pdf


The incumbent is primarily responsible for providing assessment, discharge planning, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and discharge planning services to Veterans and their families in the emergency department. Over days, nights and weekend hours, the incumbent will cover the Gainesville Emergency Department as well as the Lake City VAMC Emergency Department. The Lake City location is covered by virtual care technology. The incumbent is part of a team of licensed clinical social workers who cover the Emergency Department on site.
Based on staffing and coverage needs, incumbent will be cross trained to cover Acute Psychiatry and Acute Medicine/Surgery. Work entails working with patients presenting with psychosocial, mental health and medical needs. Work requires a high level of skill in assessing, developing treatment/discharge plans and use of crisis intervention skills for highly complex psychosocial, medical, and mental health needs of Veterans presenting to the Emergency Department and admitted to the acute care settings.

The social worker will exercise mature professional judgment and use a wide range of clinical skills in independently providing clinical psychosocial, case management, and mental health services to Veterans and their family members/caregivers. The social worker requires knowledge of a broad range of psychosocial, medical, and mental health issues. The incumbent must ensure appropriate protocol is followed for VA suicide risk assessment interventions. The incumbent must be familiar with the latest version of DSM and understand how to appropriately diagnosis. The social worker may provide psychosocial education, group and individual counseling,/psychotherapy appropriate to level of licensure. This work may occur in the Emergency Department or on other units, to include Acute Psychiatry and Acute Medicine/Surgery within the medical center.

The incumbent works with an interdisciplinary team. It is important the incumbent is a team player with excellent communication and documentation skills. It is important the incumbent is highly flexible as the work can vary day to day due to the nature of the Emergency Department and Acute Care Units. Office space is shared among multiple staff members. The incumbent will provide coverage as needed for co-workers, which may include providing social work coverage through virtual care options to other locations of the health system. The social worker may also participate in the student training program as approved by supervisor, as well as, serve on facility, VISN, and national committees and workgroups. Tours of Duty include evenings and weekends, but generally include 4- 10 hour days.

Other duties include but are not limited to:

• Patient Care Referrals
• Assessment/Diagnosis/Treatment
• Care Coordination and Case Management
• Advance Directives/End of Life Planning
• Community Resource/Referrals
• Process Improvement

• If other vacancies become available, there could be additional shifts discussed during the interview process.

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf
Social Work: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Social-Worker-Career-Flyer.pdf


The Senior Social Worker conducts psychosocial assessments, makes diagnoses and provides individual and group therapies using both face-to-face and telehealth encounters. They report to the Supervisory Coordinator of the Substance Abuse Treatment Team (SATT) and provides administrative support to the SUD Clinical Program via outreach coordination responsibilities to ensure the broadest possible population coverage.

As Senior Social Worker, they have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and training in provision of substance use disorder evaluation and treatment and evidence-based psychotherapies. To provide this care, the Senior Social Worker, will be licensed at the advanced practice level and demonstrate specialized knowledge of Medication Assisted Treatment, PTSD, homelessness, and undertreated medical conditions that impact Veterans with substance use disorders.

Additional duties include but not limited to:

• Works closely with the SATT Supervisor on programming issues and coordinates assessments, treatment, and referral services provided to Veterans Gainesville catchment area.
• Assists with the clinical supervision of unlicensed and multi-disciplinary staff, which may include Addiction Therapists, Peer Specialists, RN's and other program and support staff.
• Perform outreach, identifying and assessing Veterans' needs related to substance abuse, mental health, and medical issues. Specific tasks may include: screening of consults, biopsychosocial assessments, treatment planning/goal setting, referral(s) to service providers and other specialty treatment clinics, resource utilization and development, advocacy, crisis intervention, education and prevention, case management and care coordination, psychotherapy and supportive counseling, and administrative responsibilities to the assigned duty areas.
• Provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of Veterans with substance use disorders; provides services on an outpatient basis but may interact and coordinate with inpatient treatment team members across a continuum of care.
• Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in the SATP, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services; and demonstrates the ability to design changes based on empirical findings.
• Offers consultation to colleagues and students of all disciplines and of various clinics on the psychosocial treatment of Veterans with substance use disorders, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff and students in the special area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or specialty certifications.
• Willingly accepts additional and special assignments that are necessary to meet program goals or customer needs.

• Substance abuse counseling/case management
• Certifications in substance abuse disorders

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf
Social Work: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Social-Worker-Career-Flyer.pdf

The Senior Social Worker is primarily responsible for providing psychosocial and mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning/execution, care management, case management, crisis intervention and evidence-based psychotherapy services to Veterans, their family members and caregivers in within Acute Medicine-Surgery units.

Duties for this position include but are not limited to:

• Receives referrals from a variety of sources to include triage, consults, walk-in visits, phone calls, and warm hand-offs from internal/external stakeholders. The Senior Social Worker is required to utilize available data sources to proactively identify patients for screening/triage, assessment, treatment planning, case management and care coordination.
• Provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences and serves as a liaison to family members/caregivers. The Senior Social Worker has working knowledge and experience in use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures. This includes acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses/injuries, mental health conditions, and common medical terminology.
• Independently conducts psychosocial and behavioral health/mental health assessments, can provide accurate diagnosis using most current version of the DSM.
• Measures outcomes of interventions to improve treatment services. The Senior Social Worker designs changes based on empirical/measurement-based care and other findings.
• Utilizes clinical knowledge in the social work profession, and writes policies, standard operating procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the service delivery area.
• Proactively addresses advance directive education and facilitates completion and proper documentation and record scanning to ensure clear and accurate information regarding the Veterans' wishes are available in the electronic health record.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for clinical social work practice/processes within the Acute Medicine-Surgery units.
• Provides specialized consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients in the service delivery area, as well as role modeling effective social work practice skills.
• Provides orientation and training for new clinical social work staff.
• Provides licensure supervision for unlicensed staff to become licensed in accordance with State laws and VA policy/standard operating procedures.
• Provides mentorship and coaching for less experienced clinical staff.
• Teaches, mentors and coaches MSW students in specialty area and provides supervision for licensure and participates in the MSW student training program.
• Uses advanced practice knowledge and experience to assist with training front line staff as well as providing clinical supervision for unlicensed Social Workers.
• Required to travel on a regular basis to other locations of care within the North Florida / South Georgia Veterans Health System to carry out job duties/assignments, as well as, required to drive and/or travel using personal or government vehicle to other sites of care between the 2 main hospitals in Gainesville and Lake City or to community partners as necessary. Travel will be for long periods of time, up to three hours each way with traffic and expected at least 50% of work week.
• This position may include weekends and evening hours and requires the ability to make decisions and complete work assignments within the program area, with very limited or no direct supervision.