Senior Social Worker

Senior Social Worker

The Senior Social Worker practices within the Behavioral Health clinical setting to provide mental health services as the licensed clinical social worker serving as the Mental Health Treatment Coordinator 2.0 (MHTC 2.0). 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:

• Serving as the Mental Health Treatment Coordinator, case/care manager and psychotherapist to a patient population with highly complex health and mental health problems. The Senior Social Worker is assigned to work within the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program Team (BHIP Team) to provide these services ensuring Veterans timely access to mental health and psychosocial services.
• Performing specialized treatment of complex physical and mental illness for Veterans in the Behavioral Health (BH) clinical settings at Lebanon, Community Based Outpatient Clinics, or within the Primary Care setting. Services are primarily provided in the outpatient and inpatient BH clinics at Lebanon, but may also involve providing care in residential programs, the emergency department, Primary Care offices, inpatient wards or community settings, and may involve providing for coverage needs within the Care Line and providing extended evening or weekend hours.
• Functioning with very little supervisory control. The incumbent must demonstrate significantly advanced clinical skills and be able to function independently. The incumbent incorporates complex multiple causation in treatment of Veteran patients, including making psychosocial assessments, providing case management, and providing psychotherapy within approved scope of practice, as well as consulting with other program areas and staff as appropriate.
• Providing individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of Veterans with serious medical and psychiatric disorders, including those in need of intensive substance use disorders treatment. The Senior Social Worker provides services that access the continuum of care. The Senior Social Worker 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 (acute inpatient psychiatry, residential programs, primary care-mental health integration, etc.).
• Demonstrating an ability to expand clinical knowledge in the profession, provide consultation and guidance to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients, as well as role model effective social work practice skills.
• Performing additional duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Full-time, 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday- Friday

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)

Functional Statement #: 06832F