Social Worker (Program Coordinator)

VA Careers - Social Work: Careers - Licensed Clinical Social Worker: Dementia Care Coordinator is is a Social Work Program Coordinator whose primary responsibilities are to provide clinical evidence based services including but not limited to the following:

• Provide case management services to Veterans and their families throughout the continuum of care.
• Independently implement treatment modalities provide counseling and/or supportive groups for Veterans and families.
• Provide consultation to other treatment team and staff members regarding psychosocial needs of Veterans and/or their families and the impact of the identified psychosocial problems on the Veterans health care planning compliance with treatment and discharge planning.
• Serve on committees work groups and task forces at the facility as deemed appropriate by the supervisor and Chief of SWS.
• Responsible for furthering ones own professional growth through continuing education for ensuring continuing education appropriate to the area of assignment
• Provides assistance with the orientation and learning of less experienced Social Workers.
• Provides clinical supervision to social workers seeking independent license and/or accept asocial work trainee.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skill in the use of software applications for drafting documents and data management as well as other computer systems in use by the VHA.
• Maintains a level of productivity and quality consistent with the complexity of the assignment and consistent with Social Work standards Long Term Care Institute standards and facility standards.
• Consults with their supervisor as needed and with colleagues to develop knowledge and apply agency policies and practices.
• Documents social work interventions and activities in the Veterans clinical record utilizing CPRS in accordance with facility policy and ensure appropriate hand off when transferring of patient care.
• Provides care coordination for Veterans discharged from the geropsychiatric unit at 1 week and 1-month post discharge to help with adjustment to a new setting and answer questions/provide advice about potential or real behavioral concerns and help prevent the need for readmission.
• Contacts social services at institutional settings (i.e. ACHs) for Veterans discharged from the geropsychiatric unit at 1 week to help with adjustment to a new setting and answerquestions/provide advice about potential or real behavioral concerns and help prevent the need for readmission.
• Prepares Veterans and their families for dealing with major neurocognitive disorders by providing training or consult services to SAVAHCS providers on the importance of and need for advanced care planning for Veterans with or at risk for major neurocognitive disorders.

• 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.
• Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation/examination.
• 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. Knowledge of program coordination and administration which includes consultation negotiation and monitoring.
2. Knowledge and ability to write policies procedures and/or practice guidelines for the program.
3. Ability to supervise multidisciplinary staff assigned to the program.
4. Skill in organizing work setting priorities meeting multiple deadlines and evaluating assigned program area(s).
5. Ability to provide training orientation and guidance within clinical practice.