Senior Social Worker-Suicide Prevention Coordinator

Join the VA as a Senior Social Worker (GS-12), providing advanced, independent clinical social work services and program development for Veterans in specialized program areas.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• Provide independent clinical social work services, including individual, group, and family counseling/psychotherapy.
• Conduct advanced psychosocial assessments and case management, assessing for abuse, neglect, exploitation, or intimate partner violence.
• Act as an advocate for Veterans and their families with VA and community providers.
• Apply complex differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges.
• Develop and implement methods for measuring social work practice effectiveness and contribute to system changes.
• Provide specialized consultation and mentorship to colleagues and students.
• Manage administrative responsibility for clinical program development, effectiveness, and service pattern modification.
• Ensure Veteran privacy, confidentiality, equity of access, and high-quality care.
• *Requirements:**
• **Citizenship:** United States Citizenship.
• **Education:** Master's degree in Social Work from a CSWE-accredited program.
• **Licensure:** Current state licensure/certification to independently practice social work at the advanced master's degree level (e.g., advanced generalist or clinical examination), with the ability to provide supervision for licensure.
• **Experience:**

* Minimum of two (2) years of post-advanced practice clinical licensure experience. * One (1) year of experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level, demonstrating advanced practice skills and judgment. * Expertise in a specialized area of social work practice.

• **Language:** Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• **Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities (GS-12):**

* Skill in specialized interventions and treatment modalities for diverse patient populations. * Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment. * Knowledge of developing and implementing outcome evaluations for practice improvement. * Ability to provide specialized consultation and role modeling. * Ability to expand clinical knowledge and contribute to policies/procedures.

• *Preferred Qualifications:**
• Familiarity with VA Suicide Prevention Program or Urgent Care settings.
• Experience with Veterans diagnosed with serious mental illness.
• Proficiency in evidence-based practices within a Veteran-centric environment.
• Two or more 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/university.
• *Work Environment:**
• Full-time permanent position; some ad-hoc telework permitted.
• Clinical settings, potentially with limited onsite supervision (e.g., CBOCs).
• May involve exposure to communicable diseases in urgent care settings. Minimal physical activity required.