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The Senior Social Worker independently provides psychosocial assessment, discharge planning and case management services to eligible veterans and their family members to meet biological, psychological, social, and environmental needs. The health care and psychosocial problems and needs of Prime Care veterans are complex and require a high degree of clinical oversight, coordination and creative problem-solving. Services are provided in healthcare settings, both ambulatory and in the community.
Learn more about this agency10/30/2020 to 11/09/2020
$88,214 - $114,683 per year
GS 12
No
Not required
No
Permanent
Full-Time
Excepted
None
No
No
CBST-10942170-21-SMB
582100600
If you are a current, permanent federal employee, you should apply under CBST-10912169-21-SMB.
Performs specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness, including adjustment to chronic or life threatening diagnoses. Incumbent 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.
The incumbent independently provides clinical psychosocial and case management services at an advance practice level to eligible active duty service members, veterans and their family members to meet biological, psychological, social and environmental needs. The incumbent will coordinate and manage social work and community services for this patient population to ensure the best possible care in accordance with the VA Prime Care System of Care. The role of Senior Social Worker is accountable for assessing, delivering, managing and evaluating services to Prime Care clients and families in need of psychosocial services. These functions include the expeditious case management of socially complex issues within the significantly large, active Prime Care Clinic population.
The incumbent serves as primary care social work faculty for the Center of Excellence [CoE] in Primary Care Education. The CoE in Primary Care Education is an Patient Aligned Care Team [PACT] model of care designed to provide inter-professional clinical education for trainees in a primary care setting. Incumbent faculty will serve as the social work subject matter expert for CoE and providing clinical supervision/mentorship of the assigned social work intern.
Incumbent will be responsible for fulfilling the university and Veterans Care and Transitional Service requirements for field instruction for the CoE SW intern and fulfillment of CoE faculty duties. Incumbents CoE faculty duties include but are not limited to providing didactic presentations to CoE trainees including other disciplines, participating as an interdisciplinary team member for the CoE panel of patients. May be responsible for also include CoE team huddles, weekly meetings, monthly planning meetings, faculty & curriculum meetings. Incumbent, along with social work training director, will provide social work feedback and input on CoE proposed curriculum and participate in CoE faculty development. Incumbent is responsible for organizing, setting priorities, meeting deadlines and evaluation of faculty CoE data collection/reporting, quality/performance improvement and special projects.
The Senior Social Worker administers information and analytical systems to evaluate and enhance the quality of service provided to patients. Develops and implements information systems to track service activities including visits, referrals, inpatient days, patient demographics, equipment utilization and patient satisfaction.
The Senior Social Worker is assigned administrative responsibility for clinical program development and is accountable for clinical program effectiveness and modification of service patterns.
The Prime Care Senior Social Worker works collaboratively with the MEDVAMC OEF/OIF Care Management Program Coordinator in providing direct case management services to severely injured (SI) and any identified non-SI veterans assigned to their clinics. Is actively involved in monthly staffing with the OEF/OIF Care Management Team.
Provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy or counseling and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with multiple chronic diseases. The Prime Care Senior Social Worker demonstrates the capacity to expand clinical knowledge in the profession, provide consultation and guidance to colleagues and stakeholders, and role model effective social work practice skills. Apart from providing consultation and case management on difficult and complex clients, the incumbent consults with medical providers and Prime Care team members on achieving positive outcomes for the veteran and the facility.
As a member of the Social Work Service the incumbent is accountable and responsible for:
IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
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.
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This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.
This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.
VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-related positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.
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You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
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Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 11/09/2020 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/10942170.
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OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise - "To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans?
The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center serves as the primary health care provider for more than 151,000 Veterans in southeast Texas. Houston exudes a cosmopolitan and down-home vibe together that lets the residents of the country's fourth-largest city and third-largest county (Harris) know that there's no place quite like Houston. The city attracts visitors and transplants with a wonderful mix of world class arts, booming business, pro sports and award-winning cuisine. The Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center is a smoke-free facility.
