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<p class="MsoNormal">VA North Texas Health Care System is excited to announce recruitment for the 2023-2024 Interprofessional SUD Fellowship for Social Workers. <i>Please see the attached announcement and share widely</i>!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Pa5" style="margin-right:4.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Application Deadline: May 1, 2023</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Pa5" style="margin-right:4.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">*Late applications will be considered only for positions that are not filled by applicants who applied by the deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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INTERPROFESSIONAL <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER FELLOWSHIP<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">The Mental Health Gold Team at
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">announces <u>two</u> openings for Post-Master’s Social Work Fellows.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The social work fellowship position is embedded in the Mental Health Gold Team. Selected fellows will be supervised by a clinical social worker and offered an opportunity to participate
in LCSW clinical supervision, if eligible. The tour of duty will be 7:30 am – 4:00 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Mental Health Gold Team is a multifaceted interprofessional clinical team that specializes in providing mental health care to veterans who has a substance use disorder as their
primary diagnosis. Most </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">V<span style="color:black">eterans engaged in care also have co-occurring psychiatric disorders, which may include affective disorders, trauma related disorders,
anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders and/or personality disorders. The Gold Team is comprised of a 40-bed residential rehabilitation treatment program, intensive outpatient treatment program, opioid replacement clinic, and outpatient substance use disorder
clinic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The fellow will assess and treat Veterans in the residential rehabilitation treatment program and outpatient substance use disorder clinic. Within the residential rehabilitation treatment
program, the fellow will facilitate psychoeducational groups such as relapse prevention, coping skills, co-occurring disorders, etc. Additionally, the fellow will be assigned as a primary clinician to
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">V<span style="color:black">eterans participating in the residential rehabilitation treatment program. As the primary clinician, the fellow will follow a
</span>V<span style="color:black">eteran through the rehabilitation treatment process and conduct assessments, provide individual therapy, and coordinate their care with the interdisciplinary treatment team. The interdisciplinary team is comprised of psychiatrists,
psychologists, physician assistants, nurses, social workers, addiction therapists, occupational therapists, nursing assistants, chaplains, a medical internist, pharmacist and peer support specialist.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Within the outpatient clinic, the fellow will assess, treat and coordinate the care of
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">V<span style="color:black">eterans who have substance use and co-occurring psychiatric disorders by providing follow-up care, individual and/or group psychotherapy, crisis intervention and
social work interventions. The fellow will also have the opportunity to learn an evidence</span>-<span style="color:black">based psychotherapy under the supervision of a trained licensed independent provider and complete a rotation in the Opioid Replacement
Clinic</span> (ORC)<span style="color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Our primary goal is to provide fellows advanced training to develop effective skills in the field of social work and specialized clinical skills in substance use and co-occurring psychiatric disorders.
<span style="color:black">Fellows will spend approximately 75 percent of their time in direct clinical care activities. The remaining 25 percent of their time will be in training activities such as diagnostic case studies, process recordings, general didactic
seminars, substance use disorder didactic seminars and fellow case presentations.</span> The fellow will be expected to present a case presentation and substance use disorder didactic seminar, both of which will be evaluated by a multidisciplinary panel of
staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you have any questions, please contact me – thank you!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">v/r,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe Script"">Jennifer A. Roberts, LCSW, BCD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">VA North Texas Health Care System</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Clinical Director, MH Gold Team<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Clinic: 214-857-4279, select 4<o:p></o:p></p>
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