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Supervisory Social Worker (Service Chief)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
On-site Tucson, AZ $144K – $187K Apply by Oct 9, 2026 Social Work ENFJESFJINFJINFP OperationsHealthcare
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The Supervisory Social Worker (Service Chief) provides supervision to the social work service line, with multiple sections or programs across the health care delivery system as well as an assistant chief and supervisors. The Supervisory Social Worker (Service Chief) has full responsibility for managing and supervising all aspects of social work service operations including clinical practice, program management, education, human resource management and supervision of the service.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Incumbent is responsible for the strategic planning and operation of Social Work Service.
- →The employee is responsible for ensuring the administrative and clinical supervision of Social Work staff in their professional role.
- →Incumbent ensures the provision of social work services and/or case management services in a variety of inpatient and outpatient program areas and clinics.
- →Oversees all professional social work activities within the medical center ensuring that educational and quality of care functions related to the psychosocial needs of veterans are met.
- →To accomplish the functions of this position, close cooperation with leadership.
- →Responsible for making decisions regarding work problems presented by subordinate social work supervisors.
- →Incumbent collaborates with others in negotiating, deciding upon and/or coordinating social work-related changes affecting other programs.
- →The employee will advise Care Line Chiefs on problems involving the relationship of social work activities to the various units and programs.
- →Make selections for supervisory and non-supervisory positions, hear group grievances and serious employee complaints, review serious disciplinary cases (i.e., those proposing suspensions and removals), and disciplinary problems involving key employees.
- →Participates in making major decisions affecting the basic content and character of the operations of programs.
- →These decisions involve matters, such as determining which program elements should be initiated, dropped, curtailed or emphasized; how many resources should be deployed; the time of curtailing, initiating, and changing program elements.
- →Responsible for ensuring technical program development, management and evaluation that includes assessing the mission, goals, programs and problems of the medical facility in terms of psychosocial needs of patients and establishes social work objectives to meet those needs which are consistent with medical center goals.
- →Reviews information pertaining to the social work programs from a variety of sources (e.g., federal, state and local including Veterans Health Administration, Joint Commission, National Association of Social Workers, Society of Social Work Administrators in Health Care of the American Hospital Association, etc.).
- →Develops procedures for and ensures the implementation and achievement of the provision of social work services to medical facility patients on inpatient and outpatient programs.
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 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.
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