Social Worker

Job Title

Social Worker

Duties

For the GS-09 Grade:

• The social worker at the GS-9 level exercises substantial professional responsibility in providing social work services utilizing a variety of skills in working with clients with a variety of psychosocial and environmental problems.
• Services provided by the social worker include direct practice (individual, group, family, couple and program development for target populations), multidisciplinary practice (treatment team, collaboration, consultation, work groups, and coordination), community practice (public relations, resource development, resource coordination), training (social work and multidisciplinary staff), research, and student supervision.
• The social worker utilizes a variety of theories and models, which are selected, integrated and adapted to the given client biopsychosocial situation. All practice is subject to varying kinds and amounts of supervision depending on workers needs and new or specialized assignments.
• All practice is subject to frequent supervision as determined by the social work supervisor.
• The social worker will demonstrate the skills and knowledge necessary to provide care appropriate to the adult and geriatric patients served, including the ability to obtain and interpret information to identify patient needs and to provide the care needed.
• The social worker is a skilled interviewer able to apply such skills relevantly and appropriately to given situations with client, groups and within the total system.
• Direct practice skills include consistency and independence in the effective integration of data gathering, assessment, ongoing assessment, planning, social work treatment (i.e., implementation of treatment plan), evaluation of treatment goals, follow-up, and program development.

For the GS-11 Grade:

• The social worker independently performs duties and responsibilities by providing a high level of professional social work services to clients with a broad range of psychosocial and environmental problems.
• At this level the social worker exercises mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of social work skills and techniques in working with clients on a regular basis having serious problems and presenting with complicated cases.
• Services provided by the social worker include direct practice (individual, group, family, couple and program development for target populations), multidisciplinary practice (treatment team, collaboration, consultation, work groups, and coordination), community practice (public relations, resource development, resource coordination), training (social work and multidisciplinary staff), research, and student supervision.
• The social worker utilizes a variety of theories and models, which are selected, integrated and adapted to the given client biopsychosocial situation. All practice is subject to varying kinds and amounts of supervision depending on workers needs and new or specialized assignments.
• The social worker functions under the overall direction of the Social Work Supervisor exercising independence regarding assignments and carrying major responsibility for work with other disciplines.
• Social workers in decentralized inpatient programs are professionally accountable to a Social Work Supervisor in Social Work Service (SWS) but are organizationally accountable to a Patient Centered Team Coordinator (PCTC).
• The social worker is accountable for identifying and discussing problems regarding the assignment, quality of work performed and administrative issues with his/her supervisor.
• Developments of professional or program interest (such as shifting trends of population being serviced) are identified in clinical or administrative supervision. The social worker has sufficient personal self-awareness to evaluate his/her work objectively and without assistance.

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 4:30pm

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

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Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 0257-A, 0258-0

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized