This Social Worker position is in the Mental Health Service at the VA Providence Healthcare System located in the Middletown CBOC. The position is full time at 40 hours per week.

Duties

VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU The Social Worker in this position acts in the role of senior social worker to an interdisciplinary team of professionals and trainees working with Veterans with a range of psychiatric disorders; provides supervision and consultation as appropriate; provides educational opportunities; and provides direct patient care via individual and group therapy. Duties include, but are not limited to: Provide a full range of social work services within commonly accepted standards of social work practice which includes case work, individual, and group counseling, discharge planning, psychosocial assessments, and case management. Provide evidence based therapy for individuals, couples, and within a group as appropriate. Provide consultation/education to patients, family members, and significant others. Provide consultation to professional staff within VAPHCS and to community providers concerning clinical assessments and findings, as well as appropriate treatment plans. Provide case management to veterans and families, as needed, throughout the continuum of care. When appropriate, supervise the practice of social work students, or a less experienced social worker. Document social work interventions and activities in patients' clinical records utilizing CPRS and ensure appropriate hand off when transferring patient care. Function independently as a member of the VAPHCS Medical Staff, with full clinical privileges. Assume complete professional responsibility for clinical assessment findings, patient care decisions, and documentation. Work Schedule: Full-time/Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm (Schedule can be negotiated) Telework: Ad-Hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: F05612 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Recruitment Incentive Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Due to a critical staffing shortage, 38 U.S.C. § 7412 waives the requirement to apply Veterans' preference for this job announcement. This position is in the Excepted Service. Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held. This position is not a Bargaining Unit position. This position is covered by locality-based comparability pay. Narrative responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) may be required from the selectee in order to proceed with the appointment.

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. Possess 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. GRADE DETERMINATION: In addition to the basic requirements for employment, the following criteria must be met when determining the grade of candidates. GS-12 Social Worker: 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 EXPIERENCE: Experience treating a range of behavioral health conditions using evidence-informed interventions and experience working with Veterans. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The work is generally sedentary. The work requires intermittent standing and walking, with periods of bending and sitting. The work requires light lifting and carrying of light items (under 15 lbs.) such as charts, notes, reports, and binders. Simple grasping and fine manipulation is required when using a keyboard to access a computer. The work requires the incumbent to travel for conducting visits in the community. Work is typically performed in both a clinical and community-based setting which may expose the incumbent to the communicable diseases common to the Veteran population. The work environment is adequately lighted and heated. The incumbent may be required to work an irregular tour and/or weekends as the need arises performs related duties as assigned. References: VA HANDBOOK 5005/120, PART II, APPENDIX G39 This position will be posted via three announcements for three different occupational series which can be considered to fill this vacancy. Qualified applicants from all three announcements will be referred to the service for consideration but only one of the announcements will result in an applicant filling the position. The three job announcements for this vacancy are: Psychologist vacancy number: 12192433 Licensed Mental Health Counselor vacancy number: 12192488

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 Providence Healthcare System 830 Chalkstone Avenue Providence, RI 02908 US
• Name: Hannah Farrar
• Phone: 401-273-7100 X13489
• Email: [email protected]