Senior Social Worker (Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program)

Senior Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) Psychotherapist

This Senior Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) psychotherapist is a fully licensed Social Worker at the full performance level with requisite experience for senior level. This Senior Social Worker psychotherapist is to provide a broad range of psychotherapy services for Veterans receiving care in BHIP at the CBOC. This is the full performance level of the position. Duties will include:

Clinical Responsibilities

• Screening/Assessment: Independently assesses the psychosocial functioning and needs of Veterans identifying the Veteran's strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, psychosocial acuity, Mental Health symptoms according to DSM-5-TR, problem identification, diagnosis, treatment planning, implementation, evaluation, and follow-up. Fully utilizes the current DSM in making diagnoses (of all MH diagnosis) and formulation of treatment goals and application of appropriate clinical interventions. Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnoses and treatment within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
• Delivers services both in person and via video technology.
• Treatment Planning/Interventions: Has specialized knowledge of a wide variety of individual, group, or family counseling interventions. LICSW will be able to provide advanced therapy and consultation for PTSD, depression, anxiety and other major MH disorders using EBPs.
• Provides complex crisis intervention and stabilization to patients who are in psychological distress. Ability to assess and safety plan for suicidality.
• Uses Measurement Based Care (MBC) measures to evaluate initial and ongoing treatment needs and episodes of care, utilizing the continuum of care model.
• Demonstrates advanced skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities for Veterans with complex needs. This includes individual, group and/or family counseling, or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial, and/or case management interventions used in the treatment of Veterans.

Academic/Teaching/Training

• May provide clinical supervision of non-licensed and licensed LICSW to assist with clinical skill development.
• Provides leadership, direction, orientation, coaching, in-service training, staff development, and continuing education programs for assigned social work staff.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Provides recommendations to supervisors of any clinical changes to policy and procedure and ability to design system changes based on data.
• Communicates assignments with milestones, priorities, expected outcomes, deadlines, and timeframes for completing assignments.
• Addresses program issues under review and problems to be resolved by providing advice on work methods, practices and procedures.

Work Schedule

Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

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Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Ad-Hoc (Inclement Weather Only)

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized