Senior Social Worker

Senior Social Worker

The Senior Social Worker practices in the Behavioral Health clinical settings to provide mental health services as the licensed clinical social worker. The work of this position is complex, involving a combination of mental health administrative skills and intensive clinical services both of which require the exercise professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of professional abilities. Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• The incumbent performs specialized treatment and care coordination of complex physical and mental illness for Veterans in the Behavioral Health clinical settings, VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics and/or Lebanon VA Medical Center. The incumbent must demonstrate advanced clinical skills and be able to function independently.
• The incumbent must incorporate complex multiple causations in treatment of Veteran patients, including making psychosocial assessments, providing case management, and providing psychotherapy within approved scope of practice.
• Tasks may include triage, evaluation and psychosocial assessment, treatment planning and coordination of care for patients in the program, providing individual and group psychotherapy and consultation with other program areas and staff as appropriate.
• The incumbent must be able to provide diagnostic evaluation per Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM), case management, provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of Veterans with serious medical and psychiatric disorders.
• The incumbent will provide services that access the continuum of care and serve as Mental Health Treatment Coordinator 2.0. Specific tasks may include biopsychosocial assessment, walk-in/crisis services, education, determining and monitoring veteran needs over time, connecting veterans with resources/supports through shared decision making, facilitating follow-up and outreach as needed to promote proactive, personalized care and care continuity, and other care coordination tasks as needed for Veterans.
• The incumbent actively participates in program planning and development, advising the supervisor of shifting trends with care coordination needs and caseloads and identifying the need for making recommendations on program procedures and/or policy changes.
• The incumbent provides services primarily on an outpatient basis during normal business hours but may have responsibilities to include extended evening and/or weekend hours, and performance of duties within various BH&S programs.
• The incumbent offers consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
• The incumbent will participate in the facility's rotating on-call system.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday-Friday from 8:00am- 4:30pm with on call coverage as necessary.

Note: There may be instances when your tour of duty, work location and responsibilities may change to meet the needs of the Medical Center.

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

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 06179F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized