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Senior Social Worker (Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 103 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
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional This Senior Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) psychotherapist is a fully licensed Social Worker at the full performance level with requisite experience for senior level.
- →This Senior Social Worker psychotherapist is to provide a broad range of psychotherapy services for Veterans receiving care in BHIP at the CBOC.
- →This is the full performance level of the position.
- →Duties will include: Clinical Responsibilities Screening/Assessment: Independently assesses the psychosocial functioning and needs of Veterans identifying the Veteran's strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, psychosocial acuity, Mental Health symptoms according to DSM-5-TR, problem identification, diagnosis, treatment planning, implementation, evaluation, and follow-up.
- →Fully utilizes the current DSM in making diagnoses (of all MH diagnosis) and formulation of treatment goals and application of appropriate clinical interventions.
- →Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnoses and treatment within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
- →Delivers services both in person and via video technology.
- →Treatment Planning/Interventions: Has specialized knowledge of a wide variety of individual, group, or family counseling interventions.
- →LICSW will be able to provide advanced therapy and consultation for PTSD, depression, anxiety and other major MH disorders using EBPs.
- →Provides complex crisis intervention and stabilization to patients who are in psychological distress.
- →Ability to assess and safety plan for suicidality.
- →Uses Measurement Based Care (MBC) measures to evaluate initial and ongoing treatment needs and episodes of care, utilizing the continuum of care model.
- →Demonstrates advanced skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities for Veterans with complex needs.
- →This includes individual, group and/or family counseling, or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial, and/or case management interventions used in the treatment of Veterans.
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.
- ✓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: 7637e475-7f59-4d4a-a605-b51ab40e3cf6
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