Social Worker- Mental Health Clinic

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Conducts psychosocial/mental health assessments to identify needs and formulate a patient-centered treatment plan with the Veteran to meet needs and goals.
• Develops and updates current social worker resources within VA and community social service programs to ensure Veterans are receiving education, information, and referrals to current and viable resources to meet their needs.
• Provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences, and serves as liaison to family members.
• Provides individual, group, and family evidence-based psychotherapies and treatment (e.g., PST, MI, MET, CPT, PE, CBT, Seeking Safety, etc.) appropriate to level of licensure to Veterans and their families/caregivers.
• Reviews evidence-based therapeutic interventions regularly during clinical supervision.
• Plans and organizes work, coordinates with clinical interdisciplinary team members, other professional and clinical staff, and management personnel.
• Provides patient education to Veterans and family members on the available services and assists them in establishing the appropriate referrals based on the Veteran's preference or other decision maker.
• Develops and executes crisis management treatment plans in a timely, effective, and efficient manner.
• Coordinates with interdisciplinary treatment team members, other professional and clinical staff, and management personnel.
• Provides continuing care for Veterans in the Mental Health Clinic.
• Assists Veterans and family members/caregivers in establishing appropriate referrals based on the Veteran's preference or that of his surrogate decision maker.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
• Licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the master's degree level.
• 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), or 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 (KSAs) as outlined in the qualification standard.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
• Annual paid time off (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year).
• Parental leave (up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child).
• Childcare 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.
• Health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care insurance.

Pay

The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-11. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is in the range of GS-9 to GS-11.

Schedule

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional. The position will be located at Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, FL. The Mental Health Clinical Social Worker conducts psychosocial/mental health assessments of Veterans independently and/or in collaboration with interdisciplinary treatment team, the Veteran, family members, caregivers, and/or significant others. The Social Worker is knowledgeable of a range of treatment modalities and has the skills required to provide the appropriate level of care/treatment through psychosocial treatment and evidence-based clinical/psychosocial therapeutic interventions. At the GS-09 level, under supervision for clinical licensure, the Social Worker conducts psychosocial/mental health assessments of Veterans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team, the Veteran, family members, caregivers, and/or significant others. At the GS-11 level, the licensed clinical Social Worker conducts psychosocial/mental health assessments of Veterans independently and/or in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team, the Veteran, family members, caregivers, and/or significant others. Major Duties include but are not limited to:

• Conducts psychosocial/mental health assessments to identify needs and formulate a patient-centered treatment plan with the Veteran to meet needs and goals.
• Develops and updates current social worker resources within VA and community social service programs to ensure Veterans are receiving education, information, and referrals to current and viable resources to meet their needs.
• Provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences, and serves as liaison to family members.
• Provides individual, group, and family evidence-based psychotherapies and treatment (e.g., PST, MI, MET, CPT, PE, CBT, Seeking Safety, etc.) appropriate to level of licensure to Veterans and their families/caregivers.
• Reviews evidence-based therapeutic interventions regularly during clinical supervision.
• Plans and organizes work, coordinates with clinical interdisciplinary team members, other professional and clinical staff, and management personnel.
• Provides patient education to Veterans and family members on the available services and assists them in establishing the appropriate referrals based on the Veteran's preference or other decision maker.
• Develops and executes crisis management treatment plans in a timely, effective, and efficient manner.
• Coordinates with interdisciplinary treatment team members, other professional and clinical staff, and management personnel.
• Provides continuing care for Veterans in the Mental Health Clinic.
• Assists Veterans and family members/caregivers in establishing appropriate referrals based on the Veteran's preference or that of his surrogate decision maker.