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Senior Social Worker (Addiction Treatment Service)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 12 days ago
About the Role
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
What You'll Do
- →ATS SW offers short term intensive outpatient counseling, recovery group/therapy, consult and case management, contingency management, and inpatient triage for addiction patients.
- →Performs specialized treatment of addiction disorders.
- →Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veterans including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
- →Provide advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with polytrauma injuries, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, visual impairment, post-traumatic stress disorder, addictions, and other serious disorders.
- →Offers consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
- →Monitors the efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness, and quality of services offered within the program area.
- →The incumbent reviews relevant data, assesses the data, develops, and implements ideas for improvement.
- →Recognized as the leader in the delivery of social work services to most complex care needs; therefore, the incumbent will serve as social work champion for discharge planning and psychosocial needs.
- →The incumbent ensures that social work practice is evidence-based and in keeping with recognized social work treatment methods.
- →Provides consultation and technical assistance and mentoring to a group of employees performing work at various GS levels, particularly those at the entry level.
- →The incumbent is viewed as the senior clinician with advanced practice skills and expertise.
- →A continuous learner evaluates his/her practice as a senior social worker on an on-going basis through participation in professional peer review, self-study or other organized means.
- →Is active in and accepts responsibility for the development and maintenance of professional standards of treatment and practice.
- →Provides assessments and referral services to community agencies, ensures that staff is resourceful and has up to date knowledge regarding community and VA resources.
Requirements
- ✓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 (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's 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.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: 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.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 2a19f304-aa52-4c98-8361-dafab1f69dc9
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