Senior Social Worker

## Senior Social Worker, GS-12

Join our team as a Senior Social Worker, providing expert clinical social work services and leadership within a specialized practice area. This role demands advanced clinical skills, judgment, and the ability to mentor less experienced professionals.

### Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities, including individual, group, family counseling, psychotherapy, and advanced psychosocial case management.
• Conduct complex differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges.
• Develop and implement methods for measuring the effectiveness of social work practice, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services.
• Provide specialized consultation to colleagues and students, serving as a role model for effective social work practice.
• Expand clinical knowledge, and contribute to policies, procedures, or practice guidelines within the service area.

### Requirements:

• **Citizenship:** U.S. Citizenship is required.
• **Education:** Master's degree in Social Work from a Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited school. A doctoral degree is not a substitute.
• **Licensure:** Current state licensure or certification to independently practice social work at the master's degree level.
• **Experience:**

* Minimum of two years post-advanced practice clinical licensure. * At least one year of experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in a specialized area of social work practice. * Demonstrated advanced practice skills, judgment, and expertise in your specialized area.

• **Advanced Practice Licensure/Certification:** State-licensed or certified at the advanced practice level, which includes passing an advanced generalist or clinical ASWB examination (or grandfathered status).
• **Supervision Ability:** Must be able to provide clinical supervision for social work licensure or certification.
• **Language:** Proficiency in spoken and written English.

### Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Veterans, particularly those in Pain Clinic or intensive outpatient programs for mental illness and pain syndromes.
• Familiarity and skill in evidence-based practices.
• At least two years of specialized social work practice in mental health and substance abuse treatment.
• Certification or post-master's training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university in a specialty area, including a defined curriculum/course of study and supervised experience.

### Work Environment & Physical Demands: This position is performed in an urgent care clinical setting with potential exposure to communicable diseases. Physical demands include active listening, reading, observing, evaluating verbal and nonverbal behavior, walking, speaking, bending, carrying light items, writing reports, and using standard office equipment. Strenuous physical activity is not required.