Senior Social Worker

Department of Veterans Affairs • Dublin, GA

44d • Onsite

About The Position

Senior Social workers have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment. At least two years should be in an area of specialized social work practice. Senior social workers must be licensed or certified by a state area of specialized social work practice.

Duties include, however, not limited to:

Performs specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness.
Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
Provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with complex medical comorbidities, homelessness, post-traumatic stress disorder, addictions, and other serious disorders.
Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in specialty areas, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services. Incumbent can demonstrate the ability to design changes based on empirical findings.
Offers consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff and students in the special area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or special certifications.

Requirements

• Senior social workers have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment.
• At least two years should be in an area of specialized social work practice.
• Senior social workers must be licensed or certified by a state area of specialized social work practice.

Responsibilities

• Performs specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness.
• Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
• Provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with complex medical comorbidities, homelessness, post-traumatic stress disorder, addictions, and other serious disorders.
• Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in specialty areas, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services. Incumbent can demonstrate the ability to design changes based on empirical findings.
• Offers consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff and students in the special area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or special certifications.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
• 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
• 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.
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Administration of Human Resource Programs
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees