Senior Social Worker (Emergency Room)
The Michel E. DeBakey MVA Medical Center is a 1a Complexity level facility and provides extensive primary, secondary, tertiary, outpatient, inpatient, residential, and community settings. MEDVAMC is a multi-site health care system that includes a major medical facility in Houston and 9 outpatient clinics and growing in the Houston Metropolitan area. MEDVAMC is an academic health care system with significant teaching and research programs. Outpatient Specialty Social Workers are assigned to one or more specialty clinics and/or specialty programs in Departments such as Emergency Medicine, Hospital and Specialty Medicine, Neurology, and/or Operative Care. Services include primary and secondary health care services, to include, but not limited to, psychosocial screening and assessment, psychosocial treatment and intervention, specialized case management and care coordination, discharge and/or after-care planning, health education and advanced health care planning, supportive counseling and caregiver support, and administrative and professional duties. Outpatient Specialty Social Workers work closely with other members of the assigned specialty care interdisciplinary treatment teams to which they are assigned. The Senior Social Worker possesses advanced practice skills and judgment and at least two years in an area of specialized social work practice. The Senior Social Worker is assigned to a major specialty treatment program or to a special patient population with highly complex physical and/or mental health conditions requiring advanced-level psychosocial interventions. The Senior Social Worker is assigned administrative responsibilities for clinical program and intervention development, evaluation, and modification. The Senior Social Worker should possess an advanced practice certification or other post-masters training in an area of specialized practice. The incumbent will provide supervision for licensure. This Senior Social Worker falls under Veterans Care and Transitional Service/Social Work Service and is assigned to the Emergency Department and works closely with Utilization Management. The social worker will provide medical, behavioral, and crisis intervention social work services to Veterans presenting to the Emergency Department and will also provide utilization management consultation and reviews of ED admissions to acute care. The social worker may also assist with social work and utilization management review and case management of hospitalized Veterans. Work Schedule:
Monday-Thursday; Thursday-Sunday; 7:
00am-5:
30pm; 8:
00am-6:
30pm; 1:
30pm-12:
00am; 10:
00am-8:
00pm; 7:
30pm-6:
00am Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required Basic Requirements:
United States Citizenship:
Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. Education.Have a master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Graduates of schools of social work that are in candidacy status do not meet this requirement until the School of Social Work is fully accredited. A doctoral degree in social work may not be substituted for the master's degree in social work. Verification of the degree can be made by going to http:
//www.cswe.org/Accreditation to verify that the social work degree meets the accreditation standards for a masters of social work. Licensure. Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS-0185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the master's degree level. Current state requirements may be found by going to http:
//vaww.va.gov/OHRM/T38Hybrid/. English Language Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f). Preferred
Experience:
Primary Care and Medicine experience Grade Determinations:
Senior Social Worker, GS-12 (1) Experience/Education. The candidate must have at least two years of experience post advanced practice clinical licensure and should be in a specialized area of social work practice of which, one year must be equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Senior social workers have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment. Senior social workers are experts in their specialized area of practice. Senior social workers may have certification or other post-masters training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship or equivalent supervised professional experience in a specialty. (2) Licensure/Certification. Senior social workers must be licensed or certified by a state at the advanced practice level which included an advanced generalist or clinical examination, unless they are grandfathered by the state in which they are licensed to practice at the advanced practice level (except for licenses issued in California, which administers its own clinical examination for advanced practice) and they must be able to provide supervision for licensure. (3) Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, candidates must demonstrate all of the following KSAs:
(a) Skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations. This includes individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial and/or case management. (b) Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.(c) Knowledge in developing and implementing methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in the specialty area, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services and to design system changes. (d) Ability to provide specialized consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients in the service delivery area, as well as role modeling effective social work practice skills. (e) Ability to expand clinical knowledge in the social work profession, and to write policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the service delivery area. References:
VA Handbook 5005/120 Part II Appendix G39 Physical Requirements:
Must be in overall good health, able to sit at a desk working at a computer, engage in light to moderate physical activity including sitting, walking, bending, and carrying supplies. Social Worker must be able to perform primarily moderate physical demands, with occasional light and sedentary duties, exercise patience, and control emotions, with reasonable accommodation if necessary, without endangering the health and safety of the social worker and others.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Monday-Thursday; Thursday-Sunday; 7:
00am-5:
30pm; 8:
00am-6:
30pm; 1:
30pm-12:
00am; 10:
00am-8:
00pm; 7:
30pm-6:
00am Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required Basic Requirements:
United States Citizenship:
Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. Education.Have a master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Graduates of schools of social work that are in candidacy status do not meet this requirement until the School of Social Work is fully accredited. A doctoral degree in social work may not be substituted for the master's degree in social work. Verification of the degree can be made by going to http:
//www.cswe.org/Accreditation to verify that the social work degree meets the accreditation standards for a masters of social work. Licensure. Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS-0185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the master's degree level. Current state requirements may be found by going to http:
//vaww.va.gov/OHRM/T38Hybrid/. English Language Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f). Preferred
Experience:
Primary Care and Medicine experience Grade Determinations:
Senior Social Worker, GS-12 (1) Experience/Education. The candidate must have at least two years of experience post advanced practice clinical licensure and should be in a specialized area of social work practice of which, one year must be equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Senior social workers have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment. Senior social workers are experts in their specialized area of practice. Senior social workers may have certification or other post-masters training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship or equivalent supervised professional experience in a specialty. (2) Licensure/Certification. Senior social workers must be licensed or certified by a state at the advanced practice level which included an advanced generalist or clinical examination, unless they are grandfathered by the state in which they are licensed to practice at the advanced practice level (except for licenses issued in California, which administers its own clinical examination for advanced practice) and they must be able to provide supervision for licensure. (3) Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, candidates must demonstrate all of the following KSAs:
(a) Skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations. This includes individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial and/or case management. (b) Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.(c) Knowledge in developing and implementing methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in the specialty area, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services and to design system changes. (d) Ability to provide specialized consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients in the service delivery area, as well as role modeling effective social work practice skills. (e) Ability to expand clinical knowledge in the social work profession, and to write policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the service delivery area. References:
VA Handbook 5005/120 Part II Appendix G39 Physical Requirements:
Must be in overall good health, able to sit at a desk working at a computer, engage in light to moderate physical activity including sitting, walking, bending, and carrying supplies. Social Worker must be able to perform primarily moderate physical demands, with occasional light and sedentary duties, exercise patience, and control emotions, with reasonable accommodation if necessary, without endangering the health and safety of the social worker and others.
- Department:
0185 Social Work - Salary Range:
$88,214 to $114,683 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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