Senior Social Worker (Medicine)

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Bay Pines (FL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Federal pension

Paid time off (37-50 days/yr)

Telework: Available (agency policy)

Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Bay Pines, FL seeks a Social Worker with advanced practice skills to provide psychosocial assessments, care coordination, and counseling across inpatient and outpatient settings within the CW Bill Young Medical Center and the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System.

The role emphasizes treatment planning, collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, and engagement with veterans and families to optimize health outcomes.

Qualifications

• MSW from CSWE-accredited program
• License/certification to independently practice social work at master's level
• United States Citizenship
• English language proficiency

Responsibilities

• Perform specialized treatment and care coordination for veterans with complex medical or mental illness
• Provide psychosocial assessments and diagnoses within approved clinical privileges
• Offer consultation and education to veterans and families on community resources and VA benefits
• Document interventions in CPRS and ensure proper handoff during care transitions
• Assist with discharge planning and care coordination for psychosocially complex cases
• Participate in program planning, development and evaluation activities

Job description

Summary

This position is located in Social Work Service of the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System. The Social Worker will provide services at the CW Bill Young (CWBY) Medical Center. The duties and responsibilities are carried throughout the HealthCare Center including all clinical and other patient care areas involved with the services.

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
• 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/
• For the GS-11 grade level and above - the candidate must be licensed or certified
• 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)
• Grade Determinations: In addition to the basic requirements for employment - the following criteria must be met when determining the grade of candidates
• Senior Social Worker - GS-12 (1) 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
• (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 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
• (4) 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
• Preferred Experience: Experience working on inpatient medical or specialty unit
• Reference: For more information on this qualification standard - please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/
• The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-12
• Physical Requirements: The physical demands of the work requires use of fingers
• moderate walking and standing
• near vision correctable at 13\"\" to 16\"\" to Jaeger 1 to 4
• far vision correctable in on eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other
• hearing aid permitted
• clear speech
• emotional stability
• moderate duty.

Duties

• Performs specialized treatment and care coordination for individuals with complex medical or mental illness
• Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients - including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice in the Emergency Department - Inpatient Wards - and Outpatient specialty clinical settings
• Provide consultation/education to veterans and families on community resources - advance directives and VA benefits
• Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in specialty areas - utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services
• Document social work interventions and activities in patient's clinical record utilizing CPRS and ensure appropriate hand off when transferring of patient care
• Identify and manage the discharge planning and care coordination for patient's cases identified as psychosocially complex
• Offers consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas - rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills
• Performs work related to the review - monitoring - analysis - planning and assessment of various programs
• Responsible for key project activities related to the planning - development - and implementation of the project component
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• Work Schedule: Sunday-Thursday - 8:00am - 4:30pm
• Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized for highly qualified candidates Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized EDRP: Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment - up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth - adoption - or foster care placement of a child
• Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment - full time employees with a total family income below $144 -000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Available -as determined by the agency policy- AD-HOC Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Functional Statement #: 20876F Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional