This is a Supervisory Social Worker position for the Veterans Justice Outreach (VJO) Program with VA Pittsburgh Health Care System. The VJP is a component of Veteran Health Administration's homelessness prevention efforts and is vital for providing a gateway to VA and community services for Veterans who are justice involved. The mission of VJP is to partner with the criminal justice system to identify Veterans who would benefit from treatment and other services.

Duties

VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws The incumbent assumes the supervisory and administrative responsibility for the clinical and administrative staff assigned to the VJO program. As the supervisor, the incumbent assists in planning, establishing, and implementing policies and procedures; developing individual or group goals and objectives as well as monitoring, operating, evaluating, coordinating, and overseeing the staff of the assigned program. Duties include, but not limited to the following: Provide direct clinical services at an advanced practice level to eligible Veterans to meet biological, psychological, social, and environmental needs. Conduct outreach, field interviews, assessments and referrals for Veterans contacted in community settings, courts and/or prior to release in jails or prisons, as well as those referred by VA residential programs, medical centers and outpatient clinics. Make provision for referral services from other agencies, community resources (i.e., transition or halfway houses, shelters, etc.), and other governmental agencies to assist Veterans with resolving problems or support continued transition to independence. Explain Veteran's treatment and progress, with proper consent to third parties as appropriate and manages the quality control and evaluation of the professional services provided. Work with VA medical facilities, VISN Network Homeless Coordinators, and the VHA Central Office VJP National Director to provide program oversight and take action to correct any deficiencies that are discovered. Provide support, guidance, and advice to VJP Specialists through regular communications, including site visits to prisons, jails and courts to facilitate mentoring and problem solving and facilitating site visits by justice system staff to VA medical facilities. Attend justice system staff trainings relevant to working with offenders and high risk populations. Establishes, implements, and maintains referral and screening procedures for potential VJO Veteran participants that meet national policy as well as the needs of medical center mental health services and residential programs. Provide orientation and on-going training for interdisciplinary team members and conducts staff development programs for mental health service and takes responsibility for providing opportunities to help staff update their mental health professional practice skills and acquire new knowledge in contemporary treatment modalities. Supervise a group of employees performing work at various GS levels up to their own grade and provides administrative, technical, and clinical supervision Performs the administrative and personnel management function relative to staff supervised. Performs other related duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. 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. 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). Grade Determinations: Supervisory Social Worker, GS-12 Education and Experience: One year of experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Experience must demonstrate possession of advanced practice skills in a specialty area or in administration demonstrating progressively more professional competency and judgment. Candidate may have certification or other post-master's degree training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship, or equivalent supervised professional experience. Licensure/Certification: Individuals assigned as Supervisory Social Workers must be licensed or certified at the advanced practice level, and must be able to provide supervision for licensure. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, the candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs: Ability to independently organize work, set priorities, and meet multiple deadlines. Knowledge of supervisory duties which includes clinical supervision, consultation, negotiation with other departments and quality improvement. Ability to ensure provision of clinical social work services. Ability to provide staff training and development. Skill in interpersonal relationships in dealing with employees, team leaders, and managers. Preferred Experience: Patient advocacy, and negotiation in spanning boundaries of multiple large institutions, including VA, the courts, and/or corrections experience preferred Assisting Veterans to adopt behaviors adaptive to community living experience preferred Writing policies/procedures or practice guidelines experience preferred Training, orientation, consultation, and guidance in rehabilitation and treatment experience preferred References: VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G39 The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-12. Physical Requirements: The incumbent will be traveling throughout the medical center and the community, valid state driver license required. Performing activities involving sitting, walking, and standing, bending and carrying such items as books, papers, and files.

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 Pittsburgh VA Medical Center 1010 Delafield Road Pittsburgh, PA 15215 US
• Name: Lisa Campos
• Phone: (414) 384-2000 X47744
• Email: [email protected]