Job Title
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Duties
Major duties include but are not limited to:
Clinical Patient Care:
- Performs finding functions and outreach, identifies and screens patients for psychosocial needs.
- Interviews Veterans and their family members/significant others 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.
- Interprets and explains VA's treatment and benefit programs.
- Reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment, identifying needs and strengths.
- Effectively uses professional skill, objectivity and insight. Provides education with recovery-oriented core principles to patients, family members, and significant others.
- Supervises assigned staff in the area of psychosocial assessment.
Psychosocial Treatment:
- Provides evidenced-based psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, groups, families and eligible caregivers in outpatient treatment and prevention-oriented domains.
- Possesses the knowledge and ability to independently implement treatment modalities and provide psychotherapy for individuals, families and groups at the appropriate level of licensure and within current scope of practice.
- Possesses general knowledge of Veterans' benefits and services relating to special programs to include service-connected compensation and non service connected pension and social security disability and facilitates referrals based on Veterans' needs and eligibility.
- Responsible for clinical practice in the areas under the incumbent's supervision.
Coordination of Care:
- Independently provides consultation services to other staff members regarding the psychosocial needs of veterans and provides consultation on the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and adherence to treatment plans.
- Responsible for clinical practice and treatment coordination in the areas under the incumbent's supervision.
- Actively involved to ensure continuity of psychosocial treatment and services across clinical settings.
Administration Functions:
- Participate in all National Recovery Coordinator (NRC) required conference calls and meetings, implement policies and procedures from the VHA Mental Health Services Handbook and the NRC, evaluate implementation of and adherence to recovery policies and procedures and report results to local, VISN and national designated VA entities.
- Provide consultation and education to facility leadership, staff and Veterans and their families on recovery and evaluate outcome of services. Facilitates and supports recovery services.
- Continues monitoring, editing and implementing the Recovery Transformation and Sustainment Strategic Plan for the facility that identifies staged implementation of recovery-oriented services.
- Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff and students in the special area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or specialty certifications.
- Provides clinical practice guidance and assists with daily operations of assigned staff (i.e. time and leave, workload, etc.) along with setting performance standards and completing annual appraisals as directed by their supervisor.
Work Schedule
Full-time, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Pay
Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
Paid Time Off
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). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior (work experience) or military service experience.
Parental Leave
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.
Child Care Subsidy
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.
Retirement
Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
Insurance
Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).
Telework
Ad hoc available per supervisor discretion.
Virtual
This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #
24767-F
