Senior Social Worker: Clinician & Mentor Leader

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

The Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, is seeking a Senior Social Worker to deliver comprehensive psychosocial services to veterans, including psychotherapy and case management, in a clinical setting.

The role emphasizes supervision for licensure, consultation with colleagues, staff mentorship, and the ability to develop innovative practice interventions across inpatient and related care settings.

Responsibilities

• Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients.
• Provides psychosocial services to Veterans in the inpatient setting.
• Provides supportive counseling, education, and case management to reduce Veteran stress throughout diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care.
• Provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions.
• Develops methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice using outcome evaluations.
• Offers consultation to colleagues and students on psychosocial treatment and mentors staff in specialty areas.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Psychosocial assessment

Counseling

Case management

Psychotherapy

Licensure supervision

Teaching / mentorship

Job description

The Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, is seeking a Senior Social Worker to deliver comprehensive psychosocial services to veterans, including psychotherapy and case management, in a clinical setting.

The role emphasizes supervision for licensure, consultation with colleagues, staff mentorship, and the ability to develop innovative practice interventions across inpatient and related care settings.