Pcmhi Colocated Collaborative Care Behavioral Health Consultant Senior Social Worker

We're Looking for a skilled Pcmhi Colocated Collaborative Care Behavioral Health Consultant Senior Social Worker in the Veterans Health Administration based in Louisville, Kentucky. Read through the job description to see if it matches your current experience.

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Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Noncitizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. Education. Have a masters degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Graduates of schools of social work that are in candidacy status do not meet this requirement until the School of Social Work is fully accredited. A doctoral degree in social work may not be substituted for the masters degree in social work. Verification of the degree can be made by going to http://www.cswe.org/Accreditation to verify that the social work degree meets the accreditation standards for a masters of social work. Licensure. Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS0185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the masters degree level. Current state requirements may be found by going to http://vaww.va.gov/OHRM/T38Hybrid/. English Language Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f). May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria). Grade Determinations: In addition to the basic requirements the following criteria must be met when determining the grade of candidates. Senior Social Worker GS12: Experience. 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 GS11 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. Education. Senior social workers may have certification or other postmasters 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: 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. Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges of scope of practice. 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. 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. 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 Assignments. For all assignments above the full performance level the higherlevel duties must consist of significant scope complexity (difficulty) and variety and be performed by the incumbent at least 25 of the time. Social workers in this assignment are responsible for social workrelated research and management information activities. They are responsible for identifying initiating developing conducting and testing hypotheses related to the operational efficiency and effectiveness of social work at the facility level. They serve as an expert consultant to health services researchers throughout the facility in their disciplinary area of expertise. Research social workers provide hospitalwide research technical support to other offices such as the Associate Chief of Staff (ACOS) for Research and Development and the ACOS for Education. They are responsible for planning implementing and consulting on joint social work and interdisciplinary research projects conducted through the auspices of affiliated academic institutions. They identify deficits in information regarding optimum delivery of social work services relating to both patients and the health care delivery system. The research social worker develops proposals to address identified social problems the execution of research projects analysis of the results and their dissemination to improve the effectiveness and organizational efficiency of social work service and the medical center it supports. They work independently and in collaboration with other health services research scientists to formulate and conduct research projects related to their disciplinary field. Duties include but are not limited to: consulting and assisting VA health services researchers in the integration of theoretical concepts and applied research issues advising and assisting VA health services researchers in the selection and application of appropriate analytic methods and statistical procedures for projects involving their area of expertise preparing and submitting scientific articles and research reports to journals publication and professional meetings participating in the scientific review and critique of health services research proposals and serving on medical center research related committees as appointed(i.e. Research and Development committee Animal Care and Use Committee and Human Studies Subcommittee). With direction from the social work chief/executive and other medical center leaders the incumbent coordinates assesses and develops data elements information systems and reports that address the reporting requirements and information needs of social work service. The research social worker participates in the needs assessments and the development of program evaluation projects that address the department needs. They determine research project staffing needs. They submit complete progress and final reports to fulfill specified reporting requirements. Responsibilities may include clinical social work duties in patient care areas. Reference: For more information on this qualification standard please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/. The full performance level of this vacancy is GS12. Physical Requirements: Work is typically performed in a clinical setting that exposes the incumbent to communicable diseases common of the client population.

What’s on Offer

The role offers excellent opportunities for top performers to further develop their competencies as a social worker and improving the lives of people.