Senior Social Worker
The Senior Social Worker (Contract Residential Treatment and Outreach Coordinator) provides outreach and case management to veterans in VA funded housing programs, shelters, and the streets. The Senior Social Worker utilizes various treatment modalities of individual and group work, case work, community organization, and community outreach activities to alleviate or remove problems that interfere with the participant's ability to achieve independence. The overall responsibilities of the Senior Social Worker are but are not limited to:
Monitors the clinical care and assesses the compliance of the programs receiving payments as outlined in the recipient's contract. Provides services and oversight of the VA funded Health Care for Homeless Veterans Program's Contract Residential Treatment according to rules, regulations, and directives including verification of veteran status and eligibility for participation in the Homeless Contract Residential Treatment Program, maintaining admission and discharge dates of participants for billing purposes, reviewing and approving/disapproving readmissions to and extensions of care, and collecting and submitting participant information to the HCHV coordinator as outlined by NEPEC evaluations procedures. Facilitates and participates in program site inspections for VA funded programs with in their local program area utilizing the local policies, as well as VHA regulations, and directives as guidance. Engages in coordination with community agencies, organizations, and groups to learn of services or resources available for homeless veterans as well as provides current information on services and benefits available in the VA for Health Care for Homeless Veterans Program participants. Work Schedule:
Monday through Friday, from 8:
00 a.m. to 4:
30 p.m. Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required 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:
A master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). 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. Physical Requirements:
See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Services. English Language Proficiency:
Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f). 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). Preferred
Experience:
Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of biopsychosocial evaluation, assessment, and treatment including knowledge of human growth and development, aging, group and individual psychodynamics, psychopathology, psychiatric diagnostic criteria, psychotherapy, crises intervention, community organization, advocacy, and social systems. Knowledge of community-based program design, implementation, and monitoring. Knowledge of program oversight procedures, program evaluation, and program corrective methods are required. Knowledge of VA administrative procedures relative to memorandums of understanding and veteran eligibility and benefits. Knowledge about eligibility for services by a wide range of non-VA community agencies and resources. Knowledge of statistics, data analysis, and program evaluation using statistical data to ensure that local programs are consistent with system goals. Skill in verbal communication, including giving information which is complex, often emotionally charged to individuals with widely varying abilities to comprehend, process, and/or act on the information. This includes the ability to assess the response to the information given. This includes patients, staff and community representatives. Knowledge of VA reporting requirements regarding patient incidents or irregular events involving facilities or agencies having contracts or formal agreements with VA. Knowledge of community agencies and resources available to veteran clients, and their families, is required. Grade Determinations:
Senior Social Worker, GS-12:
In addition to the basic requirements for appointment, the following criteria must be met to qualify at the GS-12 grade level. 1. Education and
Experience:
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. 2. 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. 3. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
In addition to the experience and licensure above, the candidate 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. References:
VA Handbook 5005/120, Part II, Appendix G39, SOCIAL WORKER QUALIFICATION STANDARDS, dated:
September 10, 2019. Physical Requirements:
The work requires extreme patience and controlling of emotions. The work may require using appropriate techniques to physically restrain patients who present a danger to self or others. The work may also require assisting physically disabled Veterans. Day-to-day work involves sitting, walking, standing and carrying light objects. The work is typically performed in a clinical setting that exposes the incumbent to the communicable diseases common to the homeless population. Much of the work is performed in a setting away from the office, where the environment cannot be controlled. The incumbent must be able to safely operate a government owned vehicle for the purpose of performing work in the community and transporting patients.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Monitors the clinical care and assesses the compliance of the programs receiving payments as outlined in the recipient's contract. Provides services and oversight of the VA funded Health Care for Homeless Veterans Program's Contract Residential Treatment according to rules, regulations, and directives including verification of veteran status and eligibility for participation in the Homeless Contract Residential Treatment Program, maintaining admission and discharge dates of participants for billing purposes, reviewing and approving/disapproving readmissions to and extensions of care, and collecting and submitting participant information to the HCHV coordinator as outlined by NEPEC evaluations procedures. Facilitates and participates in program site inspections for VA funded programs with in their local program area utilizing the local policies, as well as VHA regulations, and directives as guidance. Engages in coordination with community agencies, organizations, and groups to learn of services or resources available for homeless veterans as well as provides current information on services and benefits available in the VA for Health Care for Homeless Veterans Program participants. Work Schedule:
Monday through Friday, from 8:
00 a.m. to 4:
30 p.m. Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required 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:
A master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). 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. Physical Requirements:
See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Services. English Language Proficiency:
Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f). 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). Preferred
Experience:
Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of biopsychosocial evaluation, assessment, and treatment including knowledge of human growth and development, aging, group and individual psychodynamics, psychopathology, psychiatric diagnostic criteria, psychotherapy, crises intervention, community organization, advocacy, and social systems. Knowledge of community-based program design, implementation, and monitoring. Knowledge of program oversight procedures, program evaluation, and program corrective methods are required. Knowledge of VA administrative procedures relative to memorandums of understanding and veteran eligibility and benefits. Knowledge about eligibility for services by a wide range of non-VA community agencies and resources. Knowledge of statistics, data analysis, and program evaluation using statistical data to ensure that local programs are consistent with system goals. Skill in verbal communication, including giving information which is complex, often emotionally charged to individuals with widely varying abilities to comprehend, process, and/or act on the information. This includes the ability to assess the response to the information given. This includes patients, staff and community representatives. Knowledge of VA reporting requirements regarding patient incidents or irregular events involving facilities or agencies having contracts or formal agreements with VA. Knowledge of community agencies and resources available to veteran clients, and their families, is required. Grade Determinations:
Senior Social Worker, GS-12:
In addition to the basic requirements for appointment, the following criteria must be met to qualify at the GS-12 grade level. 1. Education and
Experience:
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. 2. 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. 3. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
In addition to the experience and licensure above, the candidate 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. References:
VA Handbook 5005/120, Part II, Appendix G39, SOCIAL WORKER QUALIFICATION STANDARDS, dated:
September 10, 2019. Physical Requirements:
The work requires extreme patience and controlling of emotions. The work may require using appropriate techniques to physically restrain patients who present a danger to self or others. The work may also require assisting physically disabled Veterans. Day-to-day work involves sitting, walking, standing and carrying light objects. The work is typically performed in a clinical setting that exposes the incumbent to the communicable diseases common to the homeless population. Much of the work is performed in a setting away from the office, where the environment cannot be controlled. The incumbent must be able to safely operate a government owned vehicle for the purpose of performing work in the community and transporting patients.
- Department:
0185 Social Work - Salary Range:
$76,721 to $99,741 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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