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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
About the Role
Senior Social workers in mental health positions at our Community Based Outpatient Clinics have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and sound clinical judgment.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws Duties to include but not limited to: Perform at an advance practice level in providing individual and family therapy to veterans with acute and chronic mental health and/or substance related disorders, major deficits in coping skills, and who also require continuing professional psychological support.
- →Perform assessment of veterans' level of functioning, identifying deficits and strengths, symptoms and psychosocial stressors.
- →Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veterans, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
- →Assess veterans for suicidal and homicidal ideations and implement crisis intervention plan to include referral to appropriate level of care.
- →Collaborate with veterans in developing safety plans to reduce suicidal and homicidal risk.
- →Ability to provide consultation and guidance to colleagues, role model effective social work practice skills, teach er provide orientation to less experienced social workers, develop innovations in practice interventions, and provide clinical supervision for social work licensure or certification.
- →Performs specialized treatment of complex mental illness.
- →Incumbent incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved scope of practice.
- →Required to develop short and long-term recovery-oriented treatment plans in collaboration with the psychiatrist and other involved in mental health providers. function as the resource person for these services to other mental health providers in the CBOCs.
- →Provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management Interventions used in the treatment of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, addictions, and other serious Mental Health disorders.
- →Meets the needs of customers while supporting VA missions.
- →Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
- →Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
- →Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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 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 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 5a50f4a5-bde7-4eec-8591-4c5a5a74e405
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