Position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.

Duties

VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU This Senior Social Worker (Outreach/Re-Entry) position is in Social Work services at the VA Boston Healthcare System, located at the Brockton, MA campus.The incumbent is required to travel to other VA campuses and out into the community as needed. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week. The HCHV Re-Entry/Outreach CATCH Senior Outreach Social Worker will be based at the Brockton campus of the VA Boston Healthcare System and must have an LICSW in the state of Massachusetts. Considered a GS12 Social Work position the duties may include coordination and supervisory responsibilities. The incumbent will consult within the HCHV and other departments at the VA Boston Healthcare System. The incumbent collaborates closely with the HCHV Programs and the Director of the Healthcare for Homeless Veterans Program, performing additional duties as assigned. The incumbent collaborates with the HCHV administrative staff to assist with the necessary documentation and administrative responsibilities required by VAMC, VISN 1 and VACO as well as the various agencies and organizations involved in providing quality care to the program's recipients. Duties include, but are not limited to: The incumbent will consult within HCHV and other departments at the VA Boston Healthcare System. The incumbent collaborates closely with the HCHV Programs and the Director of the Healthcare for Homeless Veterans Program, performing additional duties as assigned. The incumbent will utilize outreach to support the re-entry program under the Veteran Justice outreach Program within HCHV. The VA has the capacity to enter correctional facilities up to six months and begin to address veteran's needs upon their release from custody, discharge planning around housing, medical and mental health services. This population is at great risk for homelessness and fills our shelters and transitional housing programs. We have the opportunity to prevent homelessness and engage this population with treatment. The incumbent will monitor incoming referrals through the Homeless Consult and Homeless Screening Consult in CPRS. Coordinate services with VA providers and provides outreach to veterans who have been referred assigning them to appropriate HCHV staff or resources as needed. The incumbent will oversee referrals from the National Call Center Hotline for Homeless Veterans and assigns calls to HCHV staff monitoring all functions of VA Boston's hotline. The incumbent will engage in coordination with the VA, the Massachusetts Department of Veterans Services and the City of Boston to locate the most vulnerable and chronically homeless veterans on the street and in shelters in order to refer them to VA services and/or other resources. When appropriate the incumbent will provide referrals or consults for other VA programs including community based residential treatment such as Grand and Per Diem (GPD) program, Health Care for Homeless Veterans Residential Emergency Treatment program and Housing and Urban Development and VA Supportive Housing (HUD VASH) program and all other HCHV initiatives. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm. Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Available at supervisor's discretion Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #:907010 Financial Disclosure Report: Not required NOTIFICATIONS: This position is in the Excepted Service. This position is not a Bargaining Unit position. Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees. The incumbent may be required to travel out into the community. Narrative responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) may be required from the selectee in order to proceed with the appointment. The incumbent may be required to travel

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). Grade Determinations for GS12: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. The full performance level of this vacancy is GS 12. References: https://www.va.gov/OHRM/QualificationStandards/HT38 0185-SocialWorker.pdf (va.gov), Appendix 39 Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Services. Preferred Experience: 1 plus year at GS-11 level of experience working with justice-involved veterans 1 plus year of experience working with a veteran population experiencing homelessness 1 plus year working in the criminal or court system

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 VA Boston Healthcare System 940 Belmont Street Brockton, MA 02301 US
• Name: Diane McClure
• Phone: 774-826-4912
• Email: [email protected]