SOCIAL WORKER

This National Guard position is for a Social Worker, Position Description Number T59128P1 and is part of the 108TH WG, New Jersey Air National Guard. This vacancy announcement is a Title 5, Excepted Service position.

Education Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Work from a graduate school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and acceptable to The Surgeon General.

As a SOCIAL WORKER, GS-0185-12, you will:

• Actively supports the commander’s leadership team in addressing the psychological health of their installation.
• Conducts assessments, routine and crisis evaluations, psycho-diagnostic assessments, provides short-term, evidence-based problem resolution strategies and services.
• 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.
• Responsible for marketing and marketing evaluation activities.
• 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.
• Prepares agenda for meetings, compiles statistical data, and prepares a variety of recurring reports.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

General Experience:
Must have knowledge of social work theories, principles, techniques, and resources.

Specialized Experience:
Must have 24 months of experience in in the following:

• 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 individuals to community resources and other organizations as indicated
• Assisting people to understand and modify their own patterns of behavior when appropriate