Social Worker (Inpatient Mental Health)

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes a summary (description) and qualifications, duties, etc. We need to use

for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real specific content. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes a lot of qualification details, grade determinations, duties, schedule (Work Schedule: Monday - Friday - 8:00am to 4:30 pm), benefits (Parental Leave, Child Care Subsidy, Retirement, Insurance). Also maybe Pay? Not specified. So we should not create Pay section because not stated. Schedule we have. Benefits we have. Qualifications we have (basic requirements, grade determinations). Responsibilities we have (major duties). About the role maybe from summary. Skills maybe from KSAs. We need to decide sections. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. We need to include

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use

  for prose. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include the details exactly as given, but we can format them into lists. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to avoid duplication. Let's extract sections: - About the role: The summary paragraph: "The incumbent provides a full range of comprehensive and professional social work services to Veterans and their families who are admitted to Inpatient Mental Health at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. The incumbent is assigned to provide complex and multiple services to individuals and families with a variety of social - emotional and health related problems." That's prose. - Responsibilities: The "Major duties include but are not limited to the following:" list. We'll turn each bullet into

• . Also earlier duties list under GS-9 and GS-11 maybe but we can combine? The major duties list is comprehensive. We'll use that. - Requirements: Could be "Qualifications" section includes basic requirements (education, licensure) and grade determinations. We'll have a Requirements section with subpoints? But we only allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose either Requirements or Qualifications. Since we have both basic requirements and grade determinations, maybe we put them under Qualifications. Requirements could be things like "Work Schedule", "Physical Requirements"? But we have schedule separate. We'll put qualifications under Qualifications. Requirements maybe we can include "Physical Requirements: See VA Directive..." but that's a reference; we could include as a short p. But we might not need a separate Requirements section if we already have Qualifications. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can combine qualifications and requirements into one Qualifications section. But we have separate headings allowed; we can choose to include Qualifications and maybe Benefits and Schedule. Thus sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (major duties), Qualifications (education, licensure, grade determinations, KSAs), Benefits (parental leave, childcare subsidy, retirement, insurance), Schedule (work schedule). Possibly also Skills? The KSAs could be considered Skills. But we already have Qualifications covering KSAs. Might be redundant. We'll keep Qualifications. We must not create Pay section because not stated. Now we need to format lists. Let's extract Qualifications content: Basic Requirements: - Education: Master's degree in social work from CSWE-accredited school. Doctoral degree may not substitute for master's. Verification link. - Licensure: Must be licensed by a state to independently practice social work at master's level. Exception: GS-9 grade level can be unlicensed but must obtain license within three years; GS-11 and above must be licensed/certified at appointment. Details about supervision, consequences, grandfathering provision. Grade Determinations: - GS-9: Experience - Education - Licensure: None beyond basic requirements. Demonstrated KSAs: list (work with veterans diverse backgrounds, assess psychosocial functioning, implement treatment modalities, establish relationships, fundamental knowledge of medical/mental health diagnoses etc). Entry level assignments: list (identifying abuse, providing education, case management, advocacy, identifying strengths/weaknesses, referrals, psychosocial services under supervision). - GS-11: Experience and Licensure: minimum one year post-MSW experience equivalent to GS-9 in health care or social work-related settings, licensure at independent practice level. Education: doctoral degree may substitute for one year experience. Demonstrated KSAs: list (knowledge of community resources, referrals, coordinate services, independently conducting psychosocial assessments, medical/mental health diagnoses etc, independently implementing treatment modalities, provide consultation to new social workers etc). Full Performance Level Assignments: description. We need to preserve all substantive info; we can turn each bullet into
• . However the text is dense with dash-separated phrases. We'll need to parse into list items preserving meaning. We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact phrasing? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." It doesn't require verbatim copying, but we should not lose detail. We can rephrase slightly as long as we keep the info. Safer to keep original sentences but break into list items. We'll produce
  • for each distinct point. Let's extract each point: From Basic Requirements: - 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). A doctoral degree in social work may not be substituted for a 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 master's of Social Work. - Licensure: Persons hired or reassigned to social work positions in VHA must be licensed 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/Exception: This exception only applies at the GS-9 grade level. For the GS-11 grade level and above - the candidate must be licensed or certified. At the time of appointment - the supervisor will provide the unlicensed social worker with the written requirements for licensure or certification - including the time by which the license must be obtained and the consequences for not becoming licensed by the deadline. GS-9 grade level: VHA social workers who are not licensed or certified at the time of appointment must become licensed at the independent - master's level within three years of their appointment. A social worker who does not yet have a license that allows independent practice must be supervised by a licensed independent practitioner of the same discipline who is a VA staff member and who has access to the electronic health record. Information can be found at https://www.aswb.org/Failure to Obtain License or Certification: Failure to become licensed within the prescribed time will result in removal from the Social Worker series and may result in termination of employment. Loss of Licensure or Certification: Once licensed - social workers must maintain a full - valid - unrestricted independent license to remain qualified for employment. 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). That's a lot; we can break into multiple
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Now Grade Determinations: GS-9: - Experience - Education - Licensure: None beyond the basic requirements. - Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities: In addition to the above - the candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs: * Work with Veterans and family members from various socioeconomic - cultural - ethnic - educational - and other diversified backgrounds utilizing counseling skills * Assess the psychosocial functioning needs of Veterans and their family members to formulate and implement a treatment plan - identifying the problems - strengths - weaknesses - coping skills - and assistance needed * Implement treatment modalities in working with individuals - families - and groups to achieve treatment goals - This requires judgment and skill in utilizing supportive - problem-solving - or crisis intervention techniques * Establish and maintain effective working relationships and communicate with clients - staff - and representatives of community agencies * Fundamental knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses - disabilities - and treatment procedures - This includes acute - chronic - and traumatic illnesses/injuries, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology - Entry Level Assignments: Individuals assigned as GS-9 grade level social workers are considered to be at the entry level and are closely supervised - as they are not yet functioning at the independent practice level conferred by independent licensure. Social workers at the GS-9 entry level are typically assigned to program areas that do not require specialized knowledge or experience. Duties may include - but are not limited to: * Identifying behaviors or symptoms of abuse - neglect - or exploitation - providing education - social work case management - acting as an advocate of the Veteran and family members/caregiver * identifying the strengths - weaknesses - coping skills - psychosocial acuity - and assisting with the appropriate referrals - GS-9 social workers provide psychosocial services in the assigned area under supervision. GS-11: - Experience and Licensure: Appointment to the GS-11 grade level requires completion of a minimum of one year of post-MSW experience equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the field of health care or other social work-related settings (VA or non-VA experience) and licensure in a state at the independent practice level. - Education: In addition to meeting basic requirements - a doctoral degree in social work from a school of social work may be substituted for the required one year of professional social work experience in a clinical setting. - Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities: In addition to the experience above - candidates must demonstrate all of the following KSAs: * Knowledge of community resources - how to make appropriate referrals to the community and other governmental agencies for services - and the ability to coordinate services * Independently conducting psychosocial assessments and treatment interventions to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic - cultural - ethnic - educational - and other diversified backgrounds * Medical and mental health diagnoses - disabilities - treatment procedures (i.e. - acute - chronic - and traumatic illnesses/injuries - common medications and their effects/side effects - and medical terminology) to formulate a treatment plan * Independently implementing different treatment modalities - working with individuals - families - and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric - medical - and social problems to achieve treatment goals * Provide consultation services to new social workers - social work graduate students - and other staff about the needs of patients and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and compliance with treatment - Full Performance Level Assignments: This is the full performance level. Social workers at this level are licensed to independently practice social work. Incumbents are assigned to all program areas - including but not limited to mental health - rehabilitation - and geriatrics. Provide professional - independent social work services in the assigned area. Duties include but are not limited to: * assessing and documenting symptoms of abuse - neglect - exploitation - or intimate partner violence * maintaining Veteran privacy and confidentiality per policy * acting as an advocate with VA and community service providers when it serves the best interest of the Veteran and family members/caregiver * Independently formulate and implement a treatment plan - including achievable goals - identifying the needs - strengths - weaknesses - coping skills - and psychosocial acuity * Providing subject matter consultation to colleagues and students on the treatment of Veterans - offering professional opinions based on experience - expertise - and role modeling effective social work practice skills Also mention: Reference link, full performance level of this vacancy is GS-11, actual grade range GS-09 to GS-11, Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and