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Social Worker Program Coordinator - Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
The Social Worker Program Coordinator serves as the professional leader of the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) Program and reports to the Section Chief of Behavioral Medicine. PCBH is co-located with the Primary Care medical teams, with an emphasis on integration of mental health services within primary care. The incumbent is directly responsible for the planning, development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of treatment program operations.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) Program Manager has broad program management responsibilities, which include the operation and management of a key clinical program that coordinates treatment across several service lines.
- →Responsibilities include the development and implementation of programs, policies, and procedures; oversight of administrative and programmatic resources; and monitoring of outcomes.
- →The incumbent performs the administrative and personnel management function relative to staff supervised including personnel actions, clinical supervision, consultation, negotiation with other departments, and quality improvement.
- →Works collaboratively with internal staff, VISN and VACO leadership, and external stakeholders to expedite service delivery.
- →Duties may include but are not limited to: Serves as the professional leader of the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) Program and reports to the Section Chief of Behavioral Medicine.
- →Responsibility requires broad-based clinical, administrative and supervisory knowledge and skills.
- →The incumbent is directly responsible for the planning, development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of treatment program operations.
- →The PCBH Program Manager has broad program management responsibilities, which include the operation and management of a key clinical program that coordinates treatment across several service lines.
- →Responsibilities include the development and implementation of programs, policies, and procedures; oversight of administrative and programmatic resources; and monitoring of outcomes.
- →Performs the administrative and personnel management function relative to staff supervised including personnel actions, clinical supervision, consultation, negotiation with other departments, and quality improvement.
- →Works collaboratively with internal staff, VISN and VACO leadership, and external stakeholders to expedite service delivery.
- →As a full clinical member of the PCBH Team, provides a full range of clinical services appropriate to the primary care setting, especially in the areas of diagnostic and psychosocial assessment and evaluation of emotional and behavioral problems.
- →Provides short-term individual, family, and group therapy services in accordance with the needs identified in the assessment and treatment plan.
- →Conducts mental health assessments, utilizes standardized instruments in the assessment of mental health conditions, and makes DSM-5 diagnoses, screens for substance abuse, tobacco use, and mental health disorders.
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 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: 71a4ac9f-2a43-4ccf-a649-8769a63e63e5
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