Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Altus Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) east-northeast of Altus, Oklahoma. Altus AFB was established in 1943 as Altus Army Airfield (AAF).

The host unit at Altus AFB is the 97th Air Mobility Wing (97 AMW), assigned to the Nineteenth Air Force (19 AF) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The wing's mission is to provide C-17 Globemaster III, KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-46 Pegasus formal initial and advanced specialty training programs for up to 3,000 flight crew and aircraft maintenance students annually.

Location: 97th Medical Group, Mental Health Clinic, 301 N. First Street Altus AFB, OK 73523 The 97th Medical Group Clinic Ensures maximum wartime readiness and combat capability by promoting the health, safety and morale of active duty personnel. Staffs, trains, mobilizes and provides medical services in support of contingency operations worldwide. Develops and operates a prevention-oriented, cost-effective managed healthcare system for over 9,500 beneficiaries, increasing wellness in the local community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Responsible for and apply social work procedures and techniques in the evaluation and treatment of psychological/psychiatric disorders. Activities include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible for and provide individual, family and group psychotherapy, and couples therapy.
• Consult to medical personnel, legal authorities, military commanders and school districts, as required.
• Maintain accurate and current notes in both the Mental Health records and patient medical records of all patients seen, as appropriate, and produce reports of evaluation and/or treatment, as required.
• Provide consultation and workshops with parents, schools, hospital staff, and other personnel who work with children and adolescents on the theory and practice of working with this population. Provide training to clinical psychology residents and post-doctoral child psychology fellows, as required.
• Research. Participate in and/or direct research and conducts clinical investigations in social work and/or child and adolescent psychology.
• Participates in and successfully completes two Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder trainings.
• Demonstrates core competency skills to "Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE)" within 90 days of starting. These trainings will not be paid for by SSG and may be completed online with a successful pass rate.

Child, Adolescent and Family Social Work Services

• Evaluation. Evaluate children from infancy through adolescence, to include conducting child and family interviews. Perform psychosocial evaluations to assess and/or treat emotional/behavior problems, educational/academic problems, attention problems, organic disorders, eating disorders, psychotic disorders, social and interpersonal dysfunction, physical/sexual/emotional abuse and neglect, personality dysfunction and drug/alcohol abuse.
• Treatment. Provide treatment across a range of modalities to include Psychotherapy, play, group and family therapy with all aged children and adolescents. Treat children and adolescents with adjustment disorders, oppositional and non-compliant behavior, attention deficit disorders, anxiety disorders and phobias, eating disorders, elimination disorders, school-related problems, developmental delay, pervasive developmental disorders, childhood psychosis and affective disorders, abuse and other trauma (either psychological or physical), and support the psychological management of medical problems. Provide varied levels of intervention, including individual, parent and family therapy.
• Consultation. Consult with other individuals and organizations to include other hospital services (e.g., Pediatrics, Neurology, Social Work), public schools, courts, the Exceptional Family Member Program and social services agencies regarding specific case management and programmatic issues affecting children and families.
• Provide consultation and feedback to parents in order to relay results of treatment. Collaborate with other professionals in order to provide social work services to children, and in making interventions within the child's psychosocial environment. Provide consultation which includes not only traditional clinical interventions that emphasize delimiting and remediating psychopathology in children and adolescents, but prevention, and the encouragement of psychological health.
• Training. Attend and provide didactic seminars in the areas of normal growth and development, consultation-liaison and psychotherapeutic approaches to child psychopathology.

Requirements:

• US Citizen
• Master's Degree in Social Work fully accredited by the Council on Work Education (CSWE)
• Current, full, active and unrestricted license to practice as a LCSW in any state
• Must have a minimum of one year experience as a licensed clinical social worker. Must have 2 years experience in the last three years in the evaluation and treatment of patients who have pain, psychological factors affecting their physical condition, or difficulty managing acute or chronic medical problems.
• Have a minimum of 2 years within the past 3 years in the independent practice of clinical social work in a mental health setting working with an adult population, or with children and teens if specifically working with that population
• Must have a clear background in order to obtain security clearance
• Familiar with organization structure and operation methods of Air Force preferred
• Prior training or experience as a behavioral health provider integrated into PCMH setting is preferred
• A solid understanding of, and experience using, population health approaches to healthcare and proficiency in using motivational interviewing is preferred

Shift: 7:30-4:30, M-F

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