Supervisory Social Worker - Inpatient Medicine

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is seeking a dedicated and experienced Supervisory Social Worker (GS-12) to lead and deliver advanced clinical social work services within a dynamic healthcare environment.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• Provide expert clinical supervision, consultation, and guidance to social work staff.
• Organize and prioritize work, ensuring timely completion of tasks and services.
• Oversee the provision of comprehensive clinical social work services to patients and their families.
• Develop and implement staff training and professional development programs.
• Cultivate strong interpersonal relationships with employees, team leaders, and management.
• Demonstrate advanced practice skills in a specialized clinical area or in administrative functions.
• Conduct independent psychosocial assessments, identifying patient strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and acuity.
• Assess and document identified behaviors or symptoms of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and intimate partner violence.
• Maintain strict patient privacy and confidentiality in accordance with VA policies.
• Act as an advocate with appropriate community service providers when in the patient's best interest.
• *Required Qualifications:**
• **Citizenship:** United States Citizenship.
• **Language:** Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• **Education:** Master's degree in Social Work from a Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accredited school.
• **Licensure:**

* Current state licensure or certification enabling independent practice of social work at the master's degree level. * Licensure/certification at the advanced practice level. * Ability to provide supervision for social work licensure or certification.

• **Experience:** One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level, demonstrating advanced practice skills in a specialty area or administration, along with progressively more professional competency and judgment.
• *Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) for GS-12:**
• Ability to independently organize work, set priorities, and meet multiple deadlines.
• Comprehensive knowledge of supervisory duties, including clinical supervision, consultation, negotiation, and quality improvement.
• Ability to ensure the effective provision of clinical social work services.
• Ability to provide comprehensive staff training and development.
• Exceptional interpersonal relationship skills when interacting with employees, team leaders, and managers.
• *Note on Grandfathering Provision:** Current VHA employees in this occupation who met specific qualifications at the time of their appointment (prior to 9/10/2019) may be eligible under specific grandfathering criteria. Refer to VA qualification standards for full details.
• *Physical Requirements:**

This role is primarily sedentary but requires some physical effort such as walking, standing, occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, and carrying light items. Active listening, reading, observing, evaluating verbal and non-verbal behavior, speaking, writing clinical notes, using office equipment (computers, phones, fax, etc.), and driving/traveling are also required. Work involves typical office environments, with occasional outdoor work in varying weather and potential exposure to moderate risks in storage or hazardous waste sites.