Social Worker (Supervisory Program Coordinator)

Functions of the Position

The Mental Health Social Work Supervisory Program Coordinator is responsible for overseeing and managing the workload and assignments of assigned direct reports under the Behavioral Health Service line. Service delivery may be provided in the Behavioral Health, associated CBOC locations, or via telehealth.

• Fiscal accountability and responsibility for fund control points, as appropriate.
• Interview Veterans and family members to establish facts about the Veteran's situation, presenting problems and their causes, and the impact of such problems on the Veteran's functioning and health as part of a comprehensive psychosocial assessment. Interpret and explain VA treatment and benefit programs.
• Use advanced clinical training, insight, and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options. Assess high risk, factors, acuity, and need for services.
• Serve Veterans who tend to have frequent and severe crises, lack family or an adequate community support network, are poor at self-monitoring, and frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, or have significant deficits in coping skills requiring continued professional biopsychosocial support.
• Perform insightful assessment of serious and complicated cases involving psychiatric illness, catastrophic medical conditions, dementia, and other high risk diagnoses.
• Identify the need to formulate proposals for executive-level management consideration.
• Work collaboratively with community-based organizations, Veterans service groups, and other stakeholders to expand the range of available resources to Veterans.
• Establish strategic partnerships and memorandums of understanding between community-based service providers and the Medical Center as needed and appropriate.
• Provide budget and financial management of the assigned programs through calls, reviews, guidelines, and instructions.
• Cookordinate Social Work services with other services offered in treatment programs, ensuring such services are complementary and comprehensive.
• Provide case management services to those Veterans at high social or medical risk, serving as the liaison to other treatment programs. Represent the program in contacts with other agencies and the public.
• Conduct staff development training and take responsibility for providing opportunities to help staff update their skills and acquire new knowledge in contemporary treatment modalities.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.

• BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
• Citizenship. Be a citizen of the United States.
• 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).
• Licensure. Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS-0185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the master's degree level.
• English Language Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. § 7403(f).