LCSW for Portsmouth Naval Medical Licensed Clinical Social Worker

• Independently function as the primary mental health therapist, providing assessment and therapeutic interventions in outpatient settings utilizing clinical modalities. 
• Assess and treat outpatients in individual, group, couples, and family modalities, exercising professional judgment, evidence-based therapeutic interventions and clinical practice guidelines where appropriate using a wide range of social work skills to include individual and family counseling to assist patients and their families in dealing with chronic and acute diseases/injuries.
• Conduct psychosocial assessments to determine patient needs and resources (both family and community support).
• Provide counseling to patients and family in matters directly related to patient limitations, adjustment to medical conditions, and ongoing treatment. Develop and implement discharge plans, follow-up care, and transfers to other health care facilities (e.g., nursing homes, rehabilitation hospitals, and VA facilities).
• Plan and maintain referral and coordination services with civilian health and social service agencies to provide optimal patient care.
• Provide consultation services to medical, nursing, and ancillary hospital staff regarding psychosocial issues, discharge plans, and follow-up care for patients and families.
• Provide crisis intervention services.
• For this position, the clinicians' practice time is spent in the provision of in-depth mental health diagnostic evaluations and evidence-based psychotherapy. Examples of approved modalities: (i.e. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), etc.).

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