Supervisory Social Worker (CERS)

VA Careers - Social Work: announcement will fill Supervisory Social Worker vacancies within the Community Engagement and Reintegration Service (CERS) located at the Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in Los Angeles California. Duties may include but are not limited to:

• Assesses and treats the complicated psychosocial problems of Veterans families and significant other.
• Provides assessment of homeless and other psychosocial problems that cause distress can include adjustment to the current medical condition and/or functional status untreated or under- treated mental health or substance abuse condition economic instability legal problems and inadequate social supports housing and transportation.
• Participate in improving chronic disease outcomes by providing primary and secondary preventive care services and self-management tailored to homeless Veteran needs.
• Demonstrates sound knowledge and understanding of substance abuse chronic mental illness and issues of chronic homelessness and isolation.
• Develops and maintains positive working relationships with homeless patients case managers and communicate with them to work together to support patients in obtaining and maintaining permanent housing.
• Conducts comprehensive assessments of Veterans and develops treatment plans that are sensitive to Veterans diverse needs and abilities.
• Independently performs a full range of clinical services including Individual Group and Family interventions. These services aresupported through team meetings chart documentation meetings with family and collaterals as other agencies (i.e. SS VA hospitals Community Based Outpatient Clinics private agencies etc.) to maximize the successful stabilization and integration of Veteransin the community.
• Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in specialty areas utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services.

• 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.
• 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. Have a masters degree in social work 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 status 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 the masters degree in social work. Verification of the degree can be made by going to to verify that the social work degree meets the 4 accreditation standards for a masters of social work.
• Licensure. Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS-0185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the masters degree level. Current state requirements may be found by going to Language Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f).

• Experience/Education. One year of experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Experience must demonstrate possession of advanced practice skills in a specialty area or in administration demonstrating progressively more professional competency and judgment. Candidate may have certification or other post-masters degree training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship or equivalent supervised professional experience.
• Licensure/Certification. Individuals assigned as Supervisory Social Workers must be licensed or certified at the advanced practice level and must be able to provide supervision for licensure.
• Demonstrated Knowledge Skills and Abilities. In addition to the experience above the candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs:
  • (a) Ability to independently organize work set priorities and meet multiple deadlines.
  • (b) Knowledge of supervisory duties which includes clinical supervision consultation negotiation with other departments and quality improvement.
  • (c) Ability to ensure provision of clinical social work services.
  • (d) Ability to provide staff training and development.
  • (e) Skill in interpersonal relationships in dealing with employees team leaders and managers.
• Assignments. For all assignments above the full performance level the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope complexity (difficulty) and variety and be performed by the incumbent at least 25% of the time. At the GS-12 grade level supervisory social workers typically have significant personnel management responsibilities for a small to moderate sized professional and non-professional staff including support staff and professional staff at the GS-12 grade level and below. The supervisory social worker is responsible for the professional and administrative management of an area in a social work service in a care/product line or multiple facilities. They provide direct clinical services with or without program coordination responsibilities.