Social Worker (Program Coordinator)

Summary

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.

Qualifications

• Basic Requirements:

  • United States Citizenship
  • English Language Proficiency
  • 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 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 level)

• Preferred Experience:

  • Experience working with clients with serious mental illness & preferably also substance use disorders
  • Experience with clients that have become suicidal
  • Experience providing therapy and case management care/services
  • Experience working with clients in non-traditional mental health settings such as community environments and home care

Skills

• Skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations
• Knowledge in developing and implementing methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in the specialty area - utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services and to design system changes
• Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice
• Ability to provide specialized consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients in the service delivery area - as well as role modeling effective social work practice skills
• Ability to expand clinical knowledge in the social work profession - and to write policies - procedures - and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the service delivery area

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases
• 37-50 days of annual paid time off per year (13-26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual - based on prior [work experience] or military service experience
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth - adoption - or foster care placement of a child
• 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
• 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 (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
• Telework: Yes - as determined by the agency policy
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position