Senior Social Worker - EDRP Authorized

Senior Social Worker

This is an open-continuous announcement, established initial cut-off date: 06/01/2026. Additional applications will be referred as needed, remained open until filled.

Duties are but not limited to:

• The Senior Social Worker incumbent independently interviews Veterans and their family members/significant others to establish facts about the Veteran's situation, presenting problems and their causes, and the impact of such problems on the Veteran's functioning and health as part of a comprehensive psychosocial assessment.
• The incumbent interprets and explains VA's treatment and benefit programs.
• The incumbent reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment identifying needs and strengths.
• The incumbent uses advanced clinical training, insight, and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options.
• The incumbent assesses high risk factors, acuity, and need for services.
• The incumbent performs specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness.
• The incumbent incorporates complex, multiple causations in differential diagnosis and treatment of Veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved scope of practice.
• The incumbent assesses at-risk factors and develops a preliminary disposition plan involving the Veteran and as appropriate the Veteran's family and/or significant other.
• The incumbent is responsible for the development of an appropriate treatment plan for Veterans written in behavioral terms with measurable objectives and concrete interventions, including goals for psychosocial clinical treatment.
• The incumbent will update the treatment plan in accordance with timelines identified by VA policy.
• The incumbent coordinates screening of patients for specific domiciliary programs and provides ongoing treatment per domiciliary guidelines.
• The incumbent independently concludes the appropriate action, even in instances where actions can have serious impact on the life of the Veteran, including, but not limited to long-term institutional or nursing home care or separation from family members.
• The incumbent will provide Case Management of up to Veterans requiring substantial communication skills, organizational skills, problem solving and time management.
• The incumbent utilizes various counseling approaches to include, but not limited to conflict resolution, anger management and effective/healthy coping skills.
• The incumbent provides clinical services to Veterans and family members/significant others in support of the Veteran's treatment utilizing only evidenced based modalities.
• The incumbent provides individual and group counseling services, including short-term solution-focused psychotherapy and family services.
• The incumbent provides Veteran psycho-education groups/classes weekly in the areas of mental health, substance abuse, recovery and/or behavioral interventions as assigned by the supervisor.
• The incumbent assists and encourages Veterans and significant others in facing problems, thinking them through, evaluating the situation realistically, considering alternative courses of action, and arriving at plans for using resources to resolve problems.

Work Schedule: Monday- Friday, 8am to 4:30pm

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact View email address on click.appcast.io, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more

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: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 55412-F