Senior Social Worker (Substance Use Disorder Program)
Company: Veterans Health Administration
Location: Fresno
Posted on: April 9, 2021
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Job Description:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS: The following requirements are required at
all grade levels for this series: Citizenship. Be a citizen of the
United States. Non-citizens may be appointed when it is not
possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA
Handbook 5005, Part II, chapter 3, section A, paragraph 3g. English
Language Proficiency. Social workers must be proficient in spoken
and written English in accordance with VA Handbook 5005, Part II,
chapter 3, section A, paragraph 3j. Education. Candidates must 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 the CSWE website to verify if that social
work degree meets the accreditation standards for a master of
social work:
http://www.cswe.org/Accreditation/Accredited-Programs.aspx GRADE
DETERMINATIONS. In addition to the basic requirements for
employment, the following criteria must be met to qualify for this
series at the GS-12 grade level: 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.
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. .
References: VA HANDBOOK 5005/120, PART II, APPENDIX G39, dated:
September 10, 2019. The full performance level of this vacancy is
GS12. Physical Requirements: Moderate Lifting (15-44 lbs); Light
Carrying (under 15 lbs); Use of fingers; Walking 8 hours; Standing
(up to 3 hours); Repeated bending (up to 1 hour); Climbing, legs
only 3 hours; Hearing (aid permitted) and emotional/mental
stability.
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