The Local Recovery Coordinator at the Finger Lakes Healthcare System has a broad responsibility for multiple duties. These duties include transforming the Finger Lakes VA mental health services to a recovery-oriented model of care, to sustain those changes, and to support further systemic change as new evidence becomes available on optimal delivery of recovery-oriented mental health care.

Duties

Major duties include but are not limited to: Functions as a champion and advocate for the recovery model to staff, Veterans, and family members. LRC also serves as a recovery ombudsman to Care Line leadership, program managers, and staff on recovery and implementation of recovery-oriented services. Develops a 3-5-year plan for the facility that identifies stated implementation of recovery-oriented services (e.g., use of recovery plans). The LRC is responsible for coordinating the evaluation of recovery implementation at the facility and reporting results to the NRC. Develops a facility recovery education plan for providers and veterans and their families. Implements and maintains a Consumer Council that will consist of veterans and family members. Participates in the Consumer Council Annual Conferences and monthly teleconferences. Serves as consultant to MH programs and recovering veterans in development of peer support groups, consumer counseling, and consumer operated services, as per local needs and resources and when community resources should be utilized. Performs case finding functions and outreach, identifies and screens patients for psychosocial needs. Independently conducts psychosocial assessments and develops treatment plans in collaboration with the veteran/family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team. Carries a caseload in the BVAC outpatient clinic providing individual and group treatment. Coordinates community-based services, including information and referral for additional services from other VA programs, other government programs and community agency programs. Coordinates family conferences and serves as liaison to family members. Independently provides consultation services to other staff members regarding the psychosocial needs of veterans. Evaluates her own practice through professional peer review, case conferences and other organizational means. Provides the customer with consistent information according to established policies and procedures. Handles conflict and problems in dealing with the customer constructively and appropriately. Develops appropriate treatment plans by using known available resources and driven by a recovery model philosophy and the initial assessment of the client's likelihood to accept differing types of assistance, makes initial and continuing decisions regarding the agency's services and referral. Independently concludes the appropriate action, even in instances where agency actions can have serious impact on the life of the person served. Provides clinical services to clients and authorizes benefits, gives advice, guidance, emotional support and other assistance. Involves clients in individual or family counseling and makes provision for referral services to other agency organizations, community resources (i.e. transition or halfway houses, shelters, etc.), or other governmental resources to resolve problems. Treats through counseling, or referral, clients with serious problems. Demonstrates acceptance, interest, and encouragement and selective use of questioning, explanation, and guidance in working with clients to help them explore their problems. Uses evidenced based practices methods and techniques to maintain a therapeutic relationship that will help the client work towards the best way of dealing with his/her problems. Establishes a continuing relationship with veterans, evaluating progress towards goals, performing follow-up after referral or if the client misses a counseling session, and adjusts treatment plan if results are inadequate. Monitors client's progress, maintains comprehensive case documentation, ensures expert diagnosis and treatment of clinical disorders, and shows competent discretion in decision to adjust treatment. Explains veteran's treatment and progress towards rehabilitation to third parties with jurisdiction, remaining unbiased in the presentation even though consequences are far-reaching and potentially permanent. Provides professional services to individuals or families or individuals whose immediate situation creates more stress than they can deal with effectively, but whose problems do not require confinement, on an outpatient basis and identifies a suitable means or treatment to help individuals or families cope with stressful situations. Other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: 8AM-4:30PM, M-F Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 00000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

Citizenship: Be a citizen of the United States. (Non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens. Licensure: Candidate 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. Education: Master's degree in social work (MSW) 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 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 master's degree in social work. Grade Determinations: GS-12 Senior Social Worker Experience: In addition to the basic requirements, applicants 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. 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. Assignments. 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. (References: VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G39 - Social Worker Qualification Standard). 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address Bath VA Medical Center 76 Veterans Avenue Bath, NY 14810 US
• Name: Girolamo Tavolante
• Phone: (315) 863-2853
• Email: [email protected]