This co-located collaborative care Senior Social Worker position is administratively held within the Mental Health Service Line, programmatically assigned to Behavioral Health Services with primary assignment to the Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) Program, located within primary care at a Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC). Delivers brief consultation-based services to Veterans and primary care providers and well as crisis response to urgent Mental Health needs.

Duties

VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU Provides functional assessment, triage, intervention, education, and consultative services regarding a wide range of mental health and behavioral medicine concerns. Conducts functional assessments, based on 30-minute appointments, and will triage/refer to specialty care services. Applies principles of population-based care. Uses brief assessments routinely; conducts suicide assessment and safety planning for high-risk Veterans. Accesses care for Veterans who need psychiatric stabilization. Performs initial consultation appointment based on functional assessments and treatment focuses on functional outcomes. Maintains daily open access slots. Provides brief mental health and behavioral interventions. Uses time-limited, evidence-based intervention. Teaches self-management home-based practice interventions. Uses intermittent visit strategy and flexible patient contact strategies. Triages to specialty mental health services. Provides behavioral health intervention to: Stress management, substance abuse/dependence, sleep hygiene, relaxation training, and anger management. Develops treatment plans in collaboration with the Veteran/family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team; establishes and maintains effective therapeutic relationships with Veterans and their families experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical, and social problems. Responds to requests from all other CBOC staff related to crisis situations, identified as: Suicidal or Homicidal Ideation or intent. Interviews Veterans in crisis and other collaborating individuals. Guides and directs the decision-making process of determining most appropriate disposition for those in crisis with input from Primary Care Provider, and CBOC and MH Leadership. Provides advanced case management services and demonstrates knowledge of local, state, and other VA programs and resources. Possesses general knowledge of Veterans' benefits and services relating to special programs, service-connected compensation, and nonservice connected pension. Identifies high-risk patients and implements safety protocols. Provides crisis intervention services and has working knowledge of referral process for inpatient psychiatric hospitalization and residential PTSD, SUDS. Coordinates family conferences and serves as liaison to family members. Possesses knowledge in diagnosis and treatment of a broad spectrum of mental health diagnoses; this includes acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses/injuries and medical terminology. Provides consultation services to other staff regarding the psychosocial needs of Veterans and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and adherence to treatment plan. Possesses expertise in providing EBTs and provides advanced therapeutic services to complex behavioral health Veteran population. Develops specialized interventions tailored to unique needs of Veteran populations and provide innovations in delivery of mental health programs. Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff and students. Consults with PCPs and other PACT team members about plan of care for patients. Conducts brief consultations. Integrates with and works closely in collaboration with PACT teams. Attends PACT meetings and daily huddles. Provides consultation to PCP and other PACT members same day as referral. Uses warm hand-off strategy. Provides education in formal and informal training to primary care on mental health issues. Networks with a variety of programs both within the health care system and the community. Possesses skills in networking, communication, and marketing; this includes knowledge and expertise in a variety of telecommunications, equipment, customer relations, data collection, data organization, and collaborating with interdisciplinary and or community agency staff. Participates in educational and peer review activities. Completes required clinical and administrative documentation in a timely manner and in accord with governing regulations. Supervises Master Level interns, practicum students in accord with training program policies and accrediting agency requirements. Provides staff and student didactic training and consultation as requested in content area of scholarly and/or clinical expertise. Participates in program evaluation and/or research activities. Provides program review and analysis , appropriate assessments of outcomes, and make recommendations. Assists in the development and implementation of systems to track completed tasks or other issues and concerns relating to the PCMHI. Work Schedule: Mon-Fri; 8:00AM-4:30PM Telework: Available; Reg Teleworks 3+ Days/Pay Period Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #:56056-O 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. 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/ GS 12 Senior Social Worker Grade Determinations: 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. AND 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. AND 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. 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. Senior social workers are licensed or certified to independently practice social work at an advanced level. Senior social workers typically practice in a major program area such as but not limited to: Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center or Polytrauma Network Site; a Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Center, or a national VHA referral center, such as a national Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or a national Transplant Center, or other program areas of equivalent scope and complexity. The senior social worker may be assigned administrative responsibility for clinical program development and is accountable for clinical program effectiveness and modification of service patterns. Assignments include clinical settings where they have limited access to onsite supervision such as CBOCs or satellite outpatient clinics. The senior social worker collaborates with the other members of the treatment team in the provision of comprehensive health care services to Veterans, ensures equity of access, service, and benefits to this population, ensures the care provided is of the highest quality. The senior social worker provides leadership, direction, orientation, coaching, in-service training, staff development, and continuing education programs for assigned social work staff. They serve on committees, work groups, and task forces at the facility, VISN and national level, or in the community as deemed appropriate by the supervisor, Social Work Executive or Chief of Social Work Services. This assignment is to be relatively few in number based on the size of the facility/service and applying sound position management. This assignment must represent substantial additional responsibility over and above that required at the full performance grade level and cannot be used as the full performance level of this occupation. Preferred Experience: Have five years experience post-LCSW in Mental Health. References: VA HANDBOOK 5005/120 PART II APPENDIX G39 Physical Requirements: The work involves long periods of moving about the work unit. The work requires regular and recurring bending, lifting, stooping, stretching, lifting, and repositioning and transferring patients. Incumbent may be exposed to patients who are combative, secondary to delirium, dementia, or psychiatric disorders and patients who require restraints. The incumbent must be a mature, sensible individual capable of working effectively in stressful situations, demonstrating cheerfulness, compassion, courtesy, and concern. Must be quick and dependable in taking emergency action in using initiative to prevent accidents.

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 SALT LAKE CITY HCS 500 Foothill Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84148 US
• Name: Michael Cuervo
• Phone: 801-582-1565 X4107
• Email: [email protected]