Senior Social Worker- Mental Health (Community-based Outpatient Clinic)

About the role

The Miami VA Healthcare Systems (MVHCS) is looking for a Senior Social Worker (Mental Health & Behavioral Science Service) for the Key West Community-based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC). The Key West VA CBOC offers a variety of services including Audiology, Physical Therapy, Primary Medical and Mental Health, Psychiatry, Telehealth, and Social Work.

Responsibilities

• Performs specialized treatment of 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.
• Provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, and other serious mental health disorders.
• Practices in specialty areas, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services. Demonstrates the ability to design changes based on empirical findings.
• 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.
• Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff and students in the specialized area of practice and provide supervision for licensure.
• Maintains the needs of customers while supporting VA missions.
• Communicates and treats customers (veterans, their representatives, visitors, and all VA staff) in a courteous, tactful, and respectful manner.
• Provides the customer with consistent information according to established policies and procedures.
• Handles conflict and problems in dealing with the consumer constructively and appropriately.

Requirements

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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).