Social Worker (Program Coordinator - Supervisory)

Department of Veterans Affairs•Walla Walla, WA

27d•Onsite

About The Position

The Mental Health Social Work Program Coordinator Supervisory is responsible for oversight and supervision of all the staff in the Behavioral Health Social Work Programs, including the Primary Care Mental Health Integration Program, BHIP Social Workers, Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselors, COMPACT ACT Coordinator, Behavioral Health Social Workers in Community Based Outpatient Clinics, Women's Health, SUD/Pain Clinic, and Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program. This position is a key managerial position in the delivery of behavioral health services for Veterans at the Walla Walla VAMC main campus, Yakima CBOC, Tri-Cities CBOC, Lewiston CBOC, and LaGrande CBOC. The incumbent has administrative, professional, and technical duties and responsibilities for the management of the continuum of outpatient specialized services. The Mental Health Social Work Program Coordinator independently provides clinical psychosocial and case management services at an advanced practice level to eligible Veterans and their family members with complex biological, psychological, social, and environmental needs. The incumbent is required to interact not only with the Veteran but also family, significant others, community agencies and other staff.

Responsibilities

Supervise and manage workload and assignments of assigned direct reports under the BH Service line. The location of service delivery will focus on the needs of each individual Veteran. Service delivery may be provided in the BH, associated CBOC locations or by tele-health.
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.
Serve as a mentor to other Social Workers, particularly those at the entry level. Provide clinical supervision to unlicensed Social Workers and Social Work Associates.
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.
Direct/coordinate clinical and psychosocial services and is accountable for the overall effectiveness of the services provided across multi-divisions.
Coordinate Social Work services with other services offered in treatment programs, ensure 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.

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).

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