The social worker will provide service to the Veteran population enrolled at the Central Alabama Veterans health Care System (CAVHCS) Mental Health Clinic on both the West and East Campuses. This incumbent will be assigned to the Outpatient Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Team. This position is fulltime and license on an independent level. Person hired will work within the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team (PCT) program to assist in evidence based care treatment.

Duties

VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU The Social Worker selected for this position performs specialized treatment(s) in the area of the screening, assessment, and intervention. The Social Worker practices in this area under the Mental Health Service Line. Incumbent will be responsible for care management, monitoring patients, providing education and support, influencing adherence to guidelines by providing "on-time, on-target" information to team, adherence to program monitoring and outcome measures implemented, and collaboratively making appropriate care decisions. Patients are adult males and females of whom Veterans are of US Armed Forces. Performs specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness. Additionally, the incumbent incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of Veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice. Reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment identifying needs and strengths. Effectively uses professional skill, objectivity, and insight, advanced clinical training, insight and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options. Establishes and maintains effective therapeutic relationships with Veterans in the PCT and/or their families. Working knowledge of medical terminology, diagnostic categories, and chart review. When indicated the social worker conducts triage, intervention, education, and consultative services regarding a wide range of mental and behavioral health concerns. Interviews and conducts bio-psychosocial assessments to establish Veteran's treatment needs, presenting problems, and provide a clinical impression. Assesses high risk factors, acuity and need for services. Interprets and explains VA treatment and benefit programs. Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in specialty areas, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services. Awareness of and uses brief assessments routinely (e.g., PCL, MST screening tool, PHQ9, AUDIT C, etc.). Schedules timely treatment planning reviews whereby goals, progress, clinical adaptations can be made. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00 am-4:30 pm.. Subject to change based on agency needs. Telework: Not Available Travel: Not Required Virtual: This is not a virtual position. 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. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. Grade Determinations: In addition to the basic requirements stated above, the following qualification criteria must be met for each grade. The candidate's qualifications must clearly demonstrate the level of competence required for the grade. 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. Preferred Experience and Certifications Mental health experience Reference: VA Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G-39 Social Worker Qualification Standard. Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Services.

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 Central Alabama VA Medical Center-Montgomery 215 Perry Hill Road Montgomery, AL 36109 US
• Name: Princess Lewis
• Phone: (202) 985-7689
• Email: [email protected]