The Workplace Violence Prevention Program (WVPP) at VAPAHCS includes the Disruptive Behavior Committee (DBC), the Employee Threat Assessment Team (ETAT), Progressive Management of Disruptive Behavior (PMDB) training program, and the annual Workplace Behavioral Risk Assessment (WBRA). WVPP uses Patient Record Flags (PRF) as needed, including to notify staff of Orders of Behavioral Restriction (OBR).

Duties

Major duties include but not limited to: The WVPC is trained as a PMDB trainer and provides PMDB training to staff as part of New Employee Orientation (NEO) and for refreshers. The WVPC works with DBC and ETAT members to understand a disruptor's history and risk level, maintains awareness of disruptive patients with PRF, and can respond to requests for consultation from units regarding individual disruptors. The WVPC also works with the Office of Community Care to determine appropriateness of consults for disruptive individuals. The WVPC conducts VRAIs as needed to assess or update the assessment of risk for individual Veterans who are recommended for PRF, or who already have a PRF. VRAIs are charted in CPRS and are reported to DBC. It is the responsibility of the WVPC when gathering information from or on a patient, to attend to risk factors for violence, to call attention to them, and to ensure they are addressed. WVPCs will also educate other clinical personnel to be sensitive and responsive to risk factors, as necessary. The WVPC assesses the safety of the home situation of Veterans through interviews with Veterans and their family/friends, and reports abuse/neglect or other unsafe situations to Adult Protective Services or Child Protective Services as appropriate. The WVPC manages the list of patients who have PRFs and is aware of their needs and fluctuating risk for disruption. They can consult with staff across the facility, at the appropriate level, for how to manage these individual disruptors based on history and current risk level. WVPC is able to work with interdisciplinary treatment teams in different areas to develop behavior management plans based on their assessment, setting achievable plans that can be summarized succinctly. These plans are reviewed and updated if there is a change in the patient's behavior or risk level. In the event of a medical or psychiatric emergency, staff will follow the protocol of the program at this VA facility. The WVPC is trained in the use of the Disruptive Behavior Reporting System (DBRS) and can use this interface to enter reports, collect data, and consult with staff on how to use this system. They help develop and revise standard operating procedures/policies with the rest of the WVP team and facility to ensure these SOPs and policies are effective and appropriate. The incumbent interacts routinely with Veterans, family members and significant others, and referral sources from VA programs and community agencies, to ensure timely admissions and discharges. Follows up with referral sources to obtain additional or more detailed information for treatment team decision-making purposes. Responds to inquiries regarding particular situations and regarding the program, following HIPAA and VAPAHCS guidelines regarding patient privacy and confidentiality. The incumbent will enter all Veteran/family contacts in the electronic record using appropriate formats and templates. In addition, the incumbent records the required workload information via the established standards and procedures. This information will be entered in a complete, confidential, and professional manner to ensure information on the patient is shared with other VA staff. This information will be reviewed on a regular basis. The WVPC will establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with employees, volunteers, consumers and stakeholders within the VA and outside community agencies. WVPC will attend all appropriate staff meetings (morning huddles, DBC, ETAT, VISN21 WVPP meetings, etc.) and perform other duties as required. The WVPC will collaborate in the performance improvement processes and comply with performance measures as required by the VA for the WVPP. The incumbent may serve on committees, councils, workgroups, and/or task forces and may serve as liaison to community agencies and networks with agency representatives. The incumbent will comply with all training requirements, including completion of continuing education per hospital and department policy. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM. Telework: May be available at supervisory discretion. 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.

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/. English Language Proficiency: Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. ? 7403(f). May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria). Grandfathering Provision: The following is the standard grandfathering policy for all title 38 hybrid qualification standards. Please carefully review the qualification standard to determine the specific education and/or licensure/certification/registration requirements that apply to this occupation. All persons employed in VHA in this occupation on the effective date of this qualification standard are considered to have met all qualification requirements for the title, series and grade held, including positive education and licensure or certification that are part of the basic requirements of the occupation. For employees who do not meet all of the basic requirements in this standard, but who met the qualifications applicable to the position at the time they were appointed to it, the following provisions apply: Such employees in an occupation that requires a licensure or certification, may be reassigned, promoted up to and including the full performance (journey) level, or changed to lower grade within the occupation, but may not be promoted beyond the journey level or placed in supervisory or managerial positions. Employees who are appointed on a temporary basis prior to the effective date of the qualification standard may not have their temporary appointment extended or be reappointed, on a temporary or permanent basis, until they fully meet the basic requirements of the standard. Employees initially grandfathered into this occupation, who subsequently obtain additional education and/or licensure/certification/registration that meet all of the basic requirements of this qualification standard must maintain the required credentials as a condition of employment in the occupation. If an employee who was retained in an occupation listed in 38 U.S.C. ? 7401(3) under this provision leaves that occupation, the employee loses protected status and must meet the full VA qualification standard requirements in effect at the time of reentry to the occupation. NOTE: If social workers covered under the grandfathering provision of the 1991 Federal law regarding licensure or certification of VHA social workers leave the GS-0185 social work series, they lose the grandfathering protection. If they choose to return at a later date to the GS-0185 series, they must be licensed or certified to qualify for employment as a social worker. Grade Determinations: Senior Social Worker, GS-12 Experience/Education. The candidate must have at least two years of experience post advanced practice clinical licensure and should be in a specialized area of social work practice of which, one year must be equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Senior social workers have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment. Senior social workers are experts in their specialized area of practice. Senior social workers may have certification or other post-masters training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship or equivalent supervised professional experience in a specialty. Licensure/Certification. Senior social workers must be licensed or certified by a state at the advanced practice level which included an advanced generalist or clinical examination, unless they are grandfathered by the state in which they are licensed to practice at the advanced practice level (except for licenses issued in California, which administers its own clinical examination for advanced practice) and they 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: Skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations. This includes individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial and/or case management. Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice. Knowledge in developing and implementing methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in the specialty area, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services and to design system changes. Ability to provide specialized consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients in the service delivery area, as well as role modeling effective social work practice skills. Ability to expand clinical knowledge in the social work profession, and to write policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the service delivery area. References: VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G39 The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-12. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is GS-12. Physical Requirements: The physical demands of this position involve primarily walking, sitting, talking, use of fingers, both hands required, Near vision correctable at 13" to 16" to Jaeger 1 to 4, Far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other, Hearing (aid permitted).

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 Palo Alto VA Medical Center 3801 Miranda Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304 US
• Name: Tyler Jennings
• Phone: 775-486-3377
• Email: [email protected]