Senior Social Worker

## Senior Social Worker, GS-12

Join our dedicated team as a Senior Social Worker, providing advanced clinical social work services and expert psychosocial support to Veterans. This challenging role demands specialized skills, sound clinical judgment, and a commitment to advancing the social work profession.

### Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver specialized interventions and treatment modalities, including individual, group, and/or family counseling and psychotherapy.
• Conduct advanced level psychosocial assessments and comprehensive case management.
• Integrate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges.
• Develop and implement effective methods for measuring social work practice and service outcomes.
• Utilize outcome evaluations to enhance treatment services and propose systemic improvements.
• Provide specialized consultation to colleagues and students regarding psychosocial treatment.
• Model exemplary social work practice skills.
• Actively expand clinical knowledge within the social work profession.
• Contribute to the creation of policies, procedures, and practice guidelines.
• Offer clinical supervision for social work licensure or certification.

### Required Qualifications:

• **Citizenship:** Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• **English Language Proficiency:** Demonstrated proficiency in spoken and written English.
• **Education:** Master's degree in Social Work from a Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)-accredited program.
• **Licensure:**

* Current state license or certification to independently practice social work at the master's degree level. * State licensure or certification at the advanced practice level, which includes passing an advanced generalist or clinical examination (unless grandfathered by the state). * Ability to provide supervision for social work licensure.

• **Experience:**

* Minimum of two years of post-advanced practice clinical licensure experience. * At least one year of experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. * Proven possession of advanced practice skills and clinical judgment, acting as an expert in a specialized area of practice.

### Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Veterans, particularly in Pain Clinics or intensive outpatient programs addressing mental illness and pain syndromes.
• Proficiency in evidence-based practices within a Veteran-centric environment.
• At least two years of specialized social work practice experience in mental health and substance abuse treatment.
• Post-master's certification or training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university, including a defined curriculum/internship in a specialty.

### Physical Requirements & Work Environment: This position requires active listening, reading, observing, and evaluating behavior, along with walking, speaking, bending, and carrying light items. Duties involve writing reports and clinical notes, and using standard office equipment. The work is performed in an urgent care clinical setting, with potential exposure to communicable diseases common to emergency departments. Strenuous physical activity is not required.