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Supervisory Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 51 days ago
About the Role
The Primary Purpose of the Position is: Incumbent performs the administrative and personnel management functions on assigned staff; provides formal and informal feedback and evaluates staff performance and completes focused and ongoing practice evaluations on assigned staff.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include but are not limited to: The Supervisory Social Worker provides supervision to a group of employees performing work at various GS levels up to their own grade and provides administrative, technical, and clinical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the program and service.
- →Incumbent may maintain a clinical practice caseload depending on workload in the assigned area.Duties include but are not limited to: Provides direct supervision of subordinates and directs the work of staff.
- →Evaluates staff under direct supervision and provides consultation on work related issues.
- →Uses diplomatic skills when dealing with other services while holding them accountable to program requirements.
- →Manages conflict and utilizes negotiation skills to maintain productive work relationships with other disciplines in delineation of roles and adapting a team approach to effective patient care.
- →Maintains a positive and functional working relationship with other health care providers.
- →Ensures adequate program coverage and makes changes accordingly.
- →Ensures that work is completed in a timely manner and reflects quality documentation in accordance with Service, Medical Center, VA, Joint Commission, and other accreditation bodies, or program standards.
- →Ensures that services provided are compliant with all regulations, policies, and procedures relevant to the population served and monitors medical center performance related to the population served.
- →Develops and maintains treatment and documentation standards that meet the expectations and requirements of Joint Commission, CARF accreditation, and/or other accrediting bodies, as applicable.
- →Assures that staff are competent to perform duties; needed training is completed; quality services are provided; and that documentation is accurate.
- →Provides but will ensure that Case Management is provided to Veterans requiring substantial communication skills, organizational skills, problem solving and time management.
- →Ensures that all staff utilize various counseling approaches to include, but not limited to, conflict resolution, anger management and effective/healthy coping skills.
- →Provides individual and group counseling services, including short-term solution-focused psychotherapy and family services, based on licensure and scope of practice.
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.
- ✓IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Personality Fit
Job ID: b1273236-5cd6-485b-b8bc-a5bb5f7ab1e1
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