Senior Social Worker

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional

Duties include but not limited to:

• Responsible for providing emergency services to Veterans referred to the ED acting as the primary contact for specialty services.
• Conducts screening discharge planning and crisis intervention during off-hours and weekends often as the sole Social Worker on duty.
• Executes psychosocial assessments treatment planning short-term counseling resource education case management and post-intervention follow-up for Veterans in crisis primarily in the ED.
• Provides consultation and education to staff and community providers maintains data participates in program evaluation supervises students and contributes to program development.
• Works independently with advanced clinical skills managing a high volume of patients integrating complex psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within scope of practice.
• Conducts psychosocial assessments and provides individual family and group therapy as part of interdisciplinary treatment.
• Conducts staff training community education and resource coordination.
• Completes initial assessments to facilitate timely services and follow-up care including housing substance detox primary care linkage and supportive counseling.
• Reviews social work consults manages care coordination and assists with system redesign.
• Performs psychosocial assessments treatment planning discharge coordination counseling and resource education.
• Acts as a liaison to community resources addresses advance directives and organ donation issues and supervises less experienced staff as needed.
• Maintains documentation in CPRS complies with JCAHO and VA policies and contributes to quality assurance.
• Participates in committees and other duties as assigned to enhance veteran care.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• Complete all application requirements detailed in the Required Documents section of this announcement.

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Education: Masters degree in social work (MSW) from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Graduates of schools of social work that are in candidacy do not meet this requirement until the school of social work is fully accredited. A doctoral degree in social work may not be substituted for masters degree in social work.
• Licensure: Candidate must be licensed or certified by a state at the advanced practice level which included an advanced generalist or clinical examination unless they are grandfathered by the state in which they are licensed to practice at the advanced practice level (except for licenses issued in California which administers its own clinical examination for advanced practice) and they must be able to provide supervision for licensure.

1. Skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations. This includes individual group and/or family counseling or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial and/or case management.
2. Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
3. Knowledge in developing and implementing methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in the specialty area utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services and to design system changes.
4. Ability to provide specialized consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients in the service delivery area as well as role modeling effective social work practice skills.
5. Ability to expand clinical knowledge in the social work profession and to write policies procedures and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the service delivery area.