Senior Social Worker

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Social Worker (GS-12)

• Setting: Outpatient mental health clinic

• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 0700–1700 (flexible tour)

Description

The Senior Social Worker provides specialized treatment of complex mental illness for Veterans, including advanced individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management. The role includes screening mental health consults, conducting biopsychosocial assessments, developing treatment plans and goals, coordinating referrals, and providing crisis intervention and supportive counseling. The position also requires measuring effectiveness of social work services using outcome evaluations and consulting/teaching and mentoring staff and students.

Responsibilities

• Conduct biopsychosocial assessments and psychosocial/psychiatric diagnoses within approved privileges/scope of practice

• Incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment

• Provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced psychosocial case management

• Screen mental health consults and coordinate care across the continuum of care

• Provide referrals, advocacy, resource utilization/development, education and prevention, and crisis intervention

• Support mental health clinic program planning and collaborate with other clinic teams

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

• Consult with colleagues and students and role model effective social work practice

• Teach, mentor, and supervise staff and students for licensure or specialty certifications

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship

• Master’s degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited school of social work

• State license/certification at the advanced practice level; must be able to provide supervision for licensure

• At least 2 years of experience post advanced practice clinical licensure (specialized area; 1 year equivalent to GS-11)

• Proficiency in written and spoken English

• Pass pre-employment physical evaluation and background/security investigation

• Complete onboarding and required pre-employment documentation

• Participate in the seasonal influenza vaccination program

• Ability to complete the required 1–2 year trial period

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases

• Paid Time Off: 37–50 days of annual paid time off per year (13–26 annual leave, 13 sick leave, 11 federal holidays)

• Paid parental leave after 12 months (up to 12 weeks)

• Child care subsidy after 60 days for eligible employees with family income below $144,000

• Retirement: federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401(k) with up to 5% contributions

• Insurance: federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care

• Telework: not available; Virtual: not a virtual position