Senior Social Worker

## Senior Social Worker

Join our team as a Senior Social Worker, responsible for delivering advanced clinical social work services within a multi-disciplinary environment. This role requires expertise in specialized interventions, clinical consultation, and contributing to program improvement. This position is typically filled at the GS-11/12 grade level.

### Key Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced-level psychosocial assessments and case management.
• Implement a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities, including individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy.
• Conduct differential diagnosis and treatment, incorporating complex causation within approved clinical privileges.
• Develop and implement methods for measuring social work practice effectiveness, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve services and design systemic changes.
• Offer specialized consultation to colleagues and students on psychosocial treatment, serving as a role model for effective social work practice.
• Contribute to the expansion of clinical knowledge within the social work profession, including writing policies, procedures, or practice guidelines.

### Required Qualifications:

• **Citizenship:** Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• **Language:** Proficient in spoken and written English.
• **Education:** A Master's Degree in Social Work from a school fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
• **Licensure:** Current state licensure or certification to independently practice social work at the master's degree level.

### Required Experience & Advanced Licensure (for Senior Social Worker - GS-12 Level):

• **Experience:** At least two (2) years of experience post-advanced practice clinical licensure, with one (1) year equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. This experience should demonstrate advanced practice skills and judgment in a specialized area of social work.
• **Advanced Licensure:** Must be licensed or certified by a state at the advanced practice level (e.g., requiring an advanced generalist or clinical examination) and be able to provide supervision for licensure.

### Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

• Skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities for diverse patient populations.
• Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment.
• Expertise in developing and implementing methods for measuring practice effectiveness and utilizing outcome evaluations.
• Ability to provide specialized consultation and role modeling for social work practice skills.
• Capacity to expand clinical knowledge and contribute to policy/procedure development.

### Physical Requirements: This position is primarily performed in an office setting. It requires some standing, bending, and carrying of light items, such as training materials.