Senior Social Worker
Company: Department of Veterans Affairs
Location: Menlo Park
Posted on: June 12, 2021
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Job Description:
Videos Help Duties 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. 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. Learn more Learn more about this agency Responsibilities A relocation/recruitment incentive may be authorized for a
highly qualified candidates. The full time permanent GS-12 Senior Social Worker serves in the
Menlo Park, California Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) in
the Social Work Service Line of the VA Palo Alto Health Care
System. The Senior Social worker serves at the the Western Blind
Rehabilitation Center. The Western Blind Rehabilitation Center
(WBRC) was established in 1967 at the VA Palo Alto Health Care
System. WBRC is a 27-bed residential facility located at the Menlo
Park Division of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Approximately
200 men and women of all ages participate in the program each year.
More than three quarters have usable vision for which specialized
treatment is provided. Adjusting to and managing visual impairment
is the major objective of the program. Major duties include, but are not limited to: Provides comprehensive professional social work services to
Veterans, military service members, and their families who are
patients of the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center (WBRC) at the
VA Palo Alto Health Care System. Develops and manages psychosocially oriented clinical initiative
programs for the center and innovations in practice interventions.
The incumbent also has responsibility for the development of and
day-to-day clinical and administrative management of the
interdisciplinary Psychosocial Rounds, Sight Loss Discussion Groups
as well as the Family Training Program which includes oversight of
programs developed as special clinical initiatives. Provides consultation to social workers and other medical staff
across the VA Palo Alto sites. Provides independent and expert clinical psychosocial and case
management services in a specialized area of Blind Rehabilitation
to Veterans who tend to have serious and severe crises, may lack
any familial and community support, may be poor self-monitors, may
frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, or may
have major deficits in coping skills and require continuing
professional psychological support. Provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy and
advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment
of veterans with disorders associated with vision loss. The incumbent will also provide social work case management
coverage for the inpatient Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC)
as needed. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday 8:00 Am to 4:30PM Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Telework, if approved, would be on a regularly occurring basis,
but this is not a virtual or remote position. This position will remain open until filled. Applicants will be
referred every three weeks starting 4/30/2021. Travel Required Not required Supervisory status No Promotion Potential None 0185 Social Work Similar jobs Social Workers, School Help Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Basic Requirements: Grade Determinations: Senior Social Worker, GS-12 Experience/Education. The candidate must have at least two years
of experience post advanced practice clinical licensure and should
be in a specialized area of social work practice of which, one year
must be equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Senior social workers
have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice
skills and judgment. Senior social workers are experts in their
specialized area of practice. Senior social workers may have
certification or other post-masters training from a nationally
recognized professional organization or university that includes a
defined curriculum/course of study and internship or equivalent
supervised professional experience in a specialty. 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) and they must be able to provide supervision for
licensure. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In addition to
the experience above, candidates must demonstrate all of the
following KSAs: (a) Skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment
modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special
patient populations. This includes individual, group, and/or family
counseling or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial and/or
case management. (b) Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in
differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical
privileges or scope of practice. (c) 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. (d) 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. (e) 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. References: VA handbook 5005 Part II Appendix G39 Physical Requirements: Physical Demands of the work are
generally minor and the work is primarily sedentary. Education IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your
application. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities,
schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal
employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
If you are using foreign education to meet qualification
requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency
with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
For further information, visit:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Keywords: Department of Veterans Affairs, San Francisco , Senior Social Worker, Other , Menlo Park, California
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