This position collaborates with local Public Housing Authority (PHA), community partners, and VA Medical Centers (VAMC), to oversee a new or existing HUD-VASH project-based development serving aging or disabled Veterans who can benefit from an enhanced model of care. This position will be a subject matter expert in aging and disabled Veteran care, and maintain and create new referral pathways to assist aging and disabled Veterans with independent living.

Duties

Work Schedule: Varying tour of duty Telework: Available - Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 000000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required This position collaborates with local Public Housing Authority (PHA), community partners, and VA Medical Centers (VAMC), to oversee a new or existing HUD-VASH project-based development serving aging or disabled Veterans who can benefit from an enhanced model of care. This position will be a subject matter expert in aging and disabled Veteran care, and maintain and create new referral pathways to assist aging and disabled Veterans with independent living. This position will work on an interdisciplinary team to provide lead case management services and coordinate treatment plans. This position will supervise and oversee program development, policy, and treatment coordination for the aging and disabled Veterans participating in the enhanced model of care, including administrative and clinical supervision of a multi-disciplinary team. The incumbent leads a group of professional VA, which may include nurses, Therapists, Peer Support Specialists, Social Service Assistants, Recreational Occupational Therapist, Certified Nursing Assistant, contract social workers and support staff. The HUD-VASH program is located in multiple sites within the catchment area of NCHCS. HUD-VASH Social Workers include licensed GS-12 Senior Social Workers, who generally function independently after their initial orientation to the program; GS-9/11 Social Workers, who function with progressive degrees of independence; and may include Social Work and support staff from additional NCHCS Homeless Programs. The Lead Social Worker is responsible for assuring that the staff members learn and appropriately use the documentation systems of CPRS and HOMES. The Supervisor tracks statistics on the program and responds to periodic requests for data from local, VISN, and National VA Offices. Duties of the position include, but are not limited: Reviews and approves/disapproves leave requests. Assures employees are trained and fully comply with the provisions of the safety regulations. Provides direct clinical services to a limited caseload of Veteran clients, as determined by assessment of the overall program, in consultation with the NCHCS HUD-VASH Site Supervisor. Provide consultation and guidance to colleagues. Role model effective professional practice skills. Teach and/or provide orientation to less experienced case managers. Develop innovations in practice interventions. Provide clinical supervision for social work licensure or certification. Identify and engage community resources for patient care. Works as a member of an interdisciplinary team including medical, mental health, and rehabilitation providers. Familiarity with cognitive, behavioral, and psychosocial challenges of patients with traumatic brain injury, depression, substance abuse, chronic pain, and other mental health and medical disorders. Must have and maintain a valid unrestricted driver's license. Other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. 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. Verification of the degree can be made by going to http://www.cswe.org/Accreditation to verify that the social work degree meets the accreditation standards for a masters of 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. Current state requirements may be found by going to http://vaww.va.gov/OHRM/T38Hybrid/. Physical Requirements. See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Services. English Language Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. ? 7403(f). GRADE DETERMINATIONS. In addition to the basic requirements for employment, the following criteria must be met when determining the grade of candidates. Social Worker (Program Coordinator), GS-12 Experience and Education. One year of experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Experience must demonstrate possession of advanced practice skills and judgment, demonstrating progressively more professional competency. 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 social worker program coordinator must be licensed or certified at the advanced practice level, and must be able to provide supervision for licensure. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, candidates must demonstrate all of the following KSAs: Knowledge of program coordination and administration which includes consultation, negotiation, and monitoring. Knowledge and ability to write policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines for the program. Ability to supervise multidisciplinary staff assigned to the program. Skill in organizing work, setting priorities, meeting multiple deadlines, and evaluating assigned program area(s). Ability to provide training, orientation, and guidance within clinical practice. Assignments. For all assignments above the full performance level, the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope, complexity (difficulty), and variety and be performed by the incumbent at least 25% of the time. Program coordinators at the GS-12 grade level are administratively responsible for a clinical program providing treatment to Veterans in a major specialty area, such as but not limited to: Spinal Cord Injury, Homeless Continuum Veteran Program, Hospice and Palliative Care Program, Suicide Prevention Program, Veterans Justice Outreach, Caregiver Support Program and Community Nursing Home Program. The program coordinator oversees the daily operation of the program, develop policies and procedures for program operation, and prepare reports and statistics for facility, VISN, and national use. They may be responsible for the program's budget, developing and monitoring staff compliance with practice, standards and guidelines on documentation, workload, data entry, ethical practice and service delivery. The program coordinator provides analysis and evaluation of clinical program data and computerized programs to identify system-wide trends and needs to enhance the quality of service. They may be responsible for, or contribute to, the program's resource and fiscal management, monitoring control points developing the annual budget, operating within that budget, and accounting for appropriated funds. The program coordinator is administratively responsible for the clinical programming and prepares reports and statistics for facility, VISN, and national use. They provide leadership, direction, orientation, coaching, in-service training, staff development, and continuing education programs for assigned staff. They initiate and conduct a variety of program or service audits and complete designated clinical practice audits and reports, including productivity assessments. They oversee program operations and evaluations, identifying areas for improvement, gathering relevant data, assessing the data, developing and implementing ideas for improvement and evaluating efficacy of improvement efforts.] References: VA Handbook 5005/120 Part II Appendix G39, Dated September 10, 2019. The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-12. Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Services.

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 Northern California Health Care System 10535 Hospital Way Mather, CA 95655 US
• Name: Roger Brown
• Phone: (415)221-4810 X24484
• Email: [email protected]