Senior Social Worker (Primary Care Mental Health Integration - PCMHI)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Social Worker (Primary Care Mental Health Integration - PCMHI), GS-12

• Setting: Onsite at the Branson Community Based Outpatient Clinic (telework is ad-hoc only)

• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 am–4:30 pm (subject to facility needs)

• Care model: Typically brief visits (20–30 minutes), about 6–8 visits; direct care to 8–10 patients per day

Description

The PCMHI Social Worker is a co-located, collaborative care behavioral health provider within primary care multidisciplinary teams. The role provides direct care and consultation-based services to Veterans and primary care team members, focusing on behavioral health and health behavior concerns using telehealth and face-to-face evaluation and intervention.

Responsibilities

• Provide triage, brief assessment, and intervention, plus education and consultative services for a wide range of behavioral health concerns

• Deliver services primarily via warm handoffs and referrals from primary care providers and allied Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) members

• Use population-based practice management strategies for enrolled patient care

• Provide specialized interventions, including individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy and advanced psychosocial and/or case management

• Apply complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment within approved scope of practice

• Develop and implement methods to measure effectiveness of social work practice using outcome evaluations to improve services and design system changes

• Provide specialized consultation to colleagues and students and role model effective social work practice

• Expand clinical knowledge and develop policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines for the service delivery area

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• Proficiency in written and spoken English

• Subject to background/security investigation; completion of onboarding and pre-employment physical evaluation

• Master’s degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited school of social work (doctoral degree cannot substitute)

• State licensure/certification to independently practice social work at the master’s level (VHA GS-0185 series)

• Advanced practice level state licensure/certification (or meet grandfathering exception)

• At least two years of experience post advanced practice clinical licensure, including one year equivalent to GS-11 level

• Ability to provide supervision for licensure

Benefits

• Competitive salary with regular salary increases

• Paid Time Off: 37–50 days of annual paid time offer per year (annual leave, sick leave, and federal holidays)

• Parental leave: up to 12 weeks paid parental leave after 12 months of employment

• Child care subsidy: potential eligibility after 60 days for full-time employees below the income threshold

• 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

• EDRP may be authorized (with eligibility and an application required within four months of appointment)