Senior Social Worker (Clinical Resource Hub)

## Senior Social Worker, GS-12

We are seeking an experienced Senior Social Worker to provide expert clinical services within a specialized area of practice. This role involves delivering advanced psychosocial interventions, providing consultation, and contributing to program development to enhance patient well-being.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• Deliver specialized interventions and treatment modalities, including individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy.
• Provide advanced-level psychosocial and case management services.
• Conduct differential diagnosis and treatment, incorporating complex multiple causation within approved clinical privileges.
• Develop and implement methods for measuring social work practice effectiveness, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services and design system changes.
• Offer specialized consultation to colleagues and students on psychosocial treatment, role modeling effective social work practice skills.
• Expand clinical knowledge within the social work profession and contribute to writing policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines for the service area.
• *Qualifications:**
• *Education:**
• Master's degree in Social Work from a Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) fully accredited school.
• *Licensure:**
• Current state licensure or certification to independently practice social work at the master's degree level.
• For the Senior Social Worker (GS-12) level, state licensure or certification at the advanced practice level, which includes an advanced generalist or clinical examination.
• Ability to provide supervision for licensure.
• *Experience:**
• At least two (2) years of experience post-advanced practice clinical licensure in a specialized area of social work practice.
• One (1) year of this experience must be equivalent to the GS-11 grade level, demonstrating advanced practice skills and judgment.
• Proven expertise as an expert in a specialized area of practice.
• *Required Skills & Abilities:**
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities.
• Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment.
• Knowledge in developing and implementing methods for measuring the effectiveness of social work practice and services.
• Ability to provide specialized consultation to colleagues and students.
• Ability to expand clinical knowledge and contribute to policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines.
• *Preferred Experience:**
• Minimum of two (2) years experience providing individual and group psychotherapy within a mental health/behavioral health team.
• Experience providing a wide range of evidence-based treatments for various diagnostic presentations.
• Telemental health experience, specifically using VA Video Connect (VVC) for psychotherapy.
• *Other Requirements:**
• United States Citizenship required.