Serving as the COMPACT Care Coordinator (CCC) Senior Social Worker for VA Northern Indiana Health Care System (VANIHCS). The CCC serves in facilitating implementation of COMPACT Act, which includes education of providers, internal stakeholder, external stakeholder, Veterans and their families on COMPACT Act. CCC serves as clinical care team point of contact and facility SME on COMPACT Act.

Duties

COMPACT Care Coordinator (CCC) will provide clinical case management to Veterans that are actively involved in utilizing COMPACT Act services. The CCC assumes responsibility for evaluating implementation efforts at the facility and VISN, if requested, and for ensuring adherence to policies and procedures from the OMHSP. CCC will report to the Chief Social Worker for Behavioral Health Service. Senior Social Worker works independently using his/her educational training, clinical experience, VA policies, and Joint Commission standards to administer direct services to a Veteran population. Senior Social Worker provides therapeutic services to individuals, families, and groups covering a wide variety of psychosocial issues not limited to the mental health setting. Senior Social Worker collaborates with interdisciplinary teams in the provision of comprehensive health care services to Veterans and ensures equity of access, service, and benefits to this population. Senior Social Worker collects, develops, and analyzes data using appropriate clinical indicators and monitoring activities to assure that the care provided is of the highest quality; provides consultation and education to VA staff and community-based service providers including medical residents and social work practicum students. Senior Social Worker documents clinical activities and interventions in Veteran's medical record utilizing the computerized patient record system (CPRS) and ensures appropriate hand off when transferring of Veteran care. Independently provides clinical psychosocial treatment and case management services at an advanced practice level to eligible Veterans and their family members to meet biological, psychological, social, and environmental needs. Veterans treated may come from a wide geographic area, and their medical and mental health problems and needs are complex and require a high degree of clinical oversight and creative problem solving. Provides clinical community-based case management services to Veterans with complex mental health and psychosocial needs, severe functional impairment, and high inpatient and emergency department utilization, in coordination with existing community and VA services. The services provided by the Senior Social Worker assist Veterans in defining and pursuing a personal mission and vision based on identified strengths and self-chosen values, interests, personal roles, and goals. Clinical case management focuses on all aspects of the physical and social environment through the utilization of community experiences as in-vivo treatment opportunities to facilitate Veterans' recovery. Senior Social Worker services demand a high amount of drive time as interventions occur primarily in the community and multiple visits per week may be made to the Veteran as needed. Additional functions include, but are not limited to: - Work in partnership with VAMC VBA, BAS and financial service - Work in partnership with the Transitional Care Coordination Team. - Actively participate in the treatment planning process with other disciplines and assist with discharge planning. - Provide individual, family, and group counseling as appropriate. - Face-to-face contact to introduce the Veteran to the "face" of VA Behavioral Health Service while inpatient at the Non-VA inpatient mental health facility. The goal being to optimize continuity of care from the non-VA inpatient mental health facility to the VA outpatient setting - Discuss with the Veteran what to expect upon discharge and the reason for such frequent contact - Complete the Suicide Prevention Safety Plans while still in the non-VA inpatient facility. Facilitate appropriate hand off with VA Suicide Prevention Program staff to assure continuity of care when needed. - Build therapeutic alliances with the Veteran and establishing rapport with the non-VA inpatient mental health facility staff/organization - Establish and maintain communication between providers, Veteran, and care team to allow for opportunities for clarification and feedback. Coordination across the spectrum of services. Effective transitions and warm hand-offs. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8:00 am to 4:30 pm (some evenings may be required) Compressed/Flexible: Authorized Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 91986-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. 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. 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. 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/. 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). Preferred Experience: Experience with community outreach 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: (a) 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. (b) Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice. (c) 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. (d) 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. (e) 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 Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G39 Social Worker Qualification Standard. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office 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 Northern Indiana HCS 1700 East 38th Street Marion, IN 46953 US
• Name: Andrea Bower
• Phone: 765-617-2998
• Email: [email protected]