This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.

Duties

-Independently organizes work, sets priorities, and meets multiple deadlines. Maintain a level of productivity and quality consistent with the complexity of the assignment and consistent with social work professional practice standards, The Joint Commission standards, and WCHCS standards. -Supervisory duties which include clinical supervision, consultation, negotiation with other departments and quality improvement. Serve on committees, work groups, and task forces at the facility as deemed appropriate by the supervisor and Chief of Care Management and Social Work Services. Have clinical oversight responsibilities for the social workers assigned to the PACT social work positions. Be responsible for clinical program effectiveness and modification of service patterns. -Ensures provision of clinical social work services. Oversee clinical programs and make recommendations to the Assistant Chief, Care Management and Social Work related to PACT social work assignments, monitor the use of PACT templates, and establish the focus for care coordination and case management needs. Provide ongoing support and guidance to primary care social workers while working to ensure the PACT social work model is being implemented. Maintain knowledge of Veteran's benefits and services, community resources, and process for making appropriate referrals to community and other governmental programs or agencies. -Provides staff training and development. Provide leadership, direction, orientation, coaching/mentoring, in-service training, and staff development activities for primary care social workers and graduate student trainees. -Maintains interpersonal relationships in dealing with employees, team leaders, and managers. Establish and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with Veterans and/or their families in the Primary Care Clinic. Provide consultation to other treatment team and staff members regarding psychosocial needs of Veterans and/or their families and the impact of the identified psychosocial problems on the Veteran's health care planning and compliance with treatment. -Conducts psychosocial assessments and treatment interventions to a wide variety of Veterans from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds. Complete thorough psychosocial assessments per the PACT model of care to determine the needs for case management as determined by the psychosocial acuity rating. Assess suicidal risk utilizing clinical judgment and demonstrates an ability to intervene appropriately. Actively participate as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team and collaborates with Veterans and/or family as well as interdisciplinary treatment team members in the development and implementation of treatment goals and interventions. Facilitate action for community placements through collaboration with Veterans and/or their families as well as interdisciplinary treatment team members to ensure that appropriate community placements are completed in a timely manner. Independently implement treatment modalities, provide educational classes, and/or supportive groups for Veterans and/or their families. Provides case management services to Veterans and/or their families throughout the continuum of care. -Provides consultation, education, and advocacy Provide consultation and education to Veterans and/or their families regarding community resources, VA benefits and specialty programs, and advance directives. Serve as a liaison between Veterans and/or their families and VA and community resources to ensure thorough delivery of services. Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with people from varied backgrounds. -Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnoses and treatment within approved clinical privileges. Develops treatment plan as appropriate. Understand and use medical and mental health diagnoses, terminology, disability definitions, and treatment procedures, including acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses, substance abuse disorders, and common medications and their effects/side effects. -Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and service in PACT, utilizes outcome evaluations to improve treatment services, and to design system changes. Provide analysis and evaluation of clinical program data. Demonstrate knowledge and skill in the use of software applications for drafting documents and data management. Work Schedule: M-F; 08:00AM-4:30PM Telework: Regularly Teleworks 3+ Days Per Pay Period Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 57912-O Relocation Incentive: Authorized EDRP Authorized: Contact Micaela Gaytan ([email protected]) or Vickie Becoat ([email protected]), the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: -United States Citizenship Be a citizen of the United States. -English Language Proficiency Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. ? 7403(f). -Education Have a master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Graduates of schools of social work that are in candidacy status do not meet this requirement until the School of Social Work is fully accredited. A doctoral degree in social work may not be substituted for the master's degree in social work. -Licensure Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS-0185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the master's degree level. Grade Determinations: Supervisory Social Worker, GS-12 -Education and Experience One year of experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Experience must demonstrate possession of advanced practice skills in a specialty area or in administration demonstrating progressively more professional competency and judgment. Candidate may have certification or other post-master's degree training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship, or equivalent supervised professional experience. -Licensure/Certification Individuals assigned as Supervisory Social Workers must be licensed or certified at the advanced practice level, and must be able to provide supervision for licensure. AND -Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities-KSAs In addition to the experience above, the candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs: Ability to independently organize work, set priorities, and meet multiple deadlines. Knowledge of supervisory duties which includes clinical supervision, consultation, negotiation with other departments and quality improvement. Ability to ensure provision of clinical social work services. (Ability to provide staff training and development. Skill in interpersonal relationships in dealing with employees, team leaders, and managers. Assignment Supervisory social workers typically have significant personnel management responsibilities for a small to moderate sized professional and non-professional staff, including support staff and professional staff at the GS-12 grade level and below. The supervisory social worker is responsible for the professional and administrative management of an area in a social work service, in a care/product line, or multiple facilities. They provide direct clinical services with or without program coordination responsibilities. Preferred Experience: None References: VA Handbook 5005/120, Part II, Appendix G39 Physical Requirements: Must be in overall good health, able to sit at a desk working at a computer, engage in light to moderate physical activity including sitting, walking, bending, and carrying supplies. Social Worker must be able to perform primarily light and sedentary duties with occasionally moderate physical demands, exercise patience, and control emotions, with reasonable accommodation, if necessary, without endangering the health and safety of the social worker or others. This position requires a valid state driver's license and local travel to provide community-based care to Veterans. The position requires significant travel in the community, through use of a government vehicle or other individual arrangements, to meet with representatives/stakeholders who provide assistance and support to Veterans in clinics, medical centers, Community Clinics, etc. This position also requires close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; and repetitive motions of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address VA Western Colorado Health Care System 2121 North Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501 US
• Name: Michael Rosales
• Phone: 5207921450 X16269
• Email: [email protected]