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Supervisory Social Worker (Service Chief)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
This position is located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA); Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6), Fayetteville VA Medical Center, in Fayetteville, NC. The Chief of Social Work is responsible for defining the mission and vision of Social Work, developing the scope for and overseeing the practice of Social Workers, and assuring implementation of quality improvement measures for the Fayetteville VA Coastal Health Care System.
What You'll Do
- →Primary duties include, but are not limited to: Interprets VHA and other relevant policies and ensures compliance.
- →Identifies service priorities and objectives and makes independent, professional decisions regarding work problems.
- →Serves as a liaison with other Services, government agencies, and the community.
- →Advises Care Line Managers/Chiefs of specific clinical or administrative problems involving the relationship of behavioral health activities to various units and programs.
- →Collaborates with others in negotiating, deciding upon, and/or coordinating clinical practice and related changes affecting other programs.
- →Provides consultation and guidance on Social Work qualification standards, practice, competency, productivity, and continuing education.
- →Ensures establishment and maintenance of accurate, detailed position descriptions/functional statements of duties performed by assigned staff.
- →Ensures establishment and maintenance of performance requirements and standards and communicates such standards to assigned staff.
- →Supervises and evaluates the performance of assigned staff.
- →Participates in recruitment of qualified Social Work professionals to include interviewing, selection, and orientation and recommends appropriate adjustments to staffing levels.
- →Tracks credentialing, required licensure and/or certification, continuing education, and other clinical requirements for all assigned providers.
- →Develops and maintains standards of clinical practice for Social Work Clinicians, including the development of care guidelines, manuals, standard operating procedures, and guides to professional practice.
- →Ensures personnel management to include resolving employee complaints, grievances, or other related matters within the context of the union contract, local policy, and appropriate personnel policies, procedures, and requirements.
- →Reviews serious disciplinary cases.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Benefits
- ★Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).
- ★Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
- ★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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 7a5be5b8-a231-4c9a-b6ce-5199e7a824a1
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