Senior Social Worker - Mental Health

James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital is looking for a Senior Social Worker - Mental Health. They work as a Senior Social Worker in our New Port Richey Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) in New Port Richey, Florida. The JAHVH is a Level I tertiary medical center with general medicine, surgical, psychiatric, rehabilitation, spinal cord injury/disorders center, nursing home care beds, and a polytrauma treatment facility. PRINCIPALES MISSIONS : The New Port Richey Community Based Outpatient Clinic Senior Social Worker will adhere to the National Association of Social Work Code of Ethics, all local social work policies and/or SOPs and maintain an unrestricted, unsuspended license to practice social work. The Senior Social Worker performs specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness. The Senior Social Worker has the ability to incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice. In alignment with the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) for a GS 12 HUD-VASH Senior Social Worker, the following are to serve as an outline of assigned duties for this position. Additional duties include but not limited to: The New Port Richey Community Based Outpatient Clinic Senior Social Worker 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. The advanced practice social worker can be further differentiated from the independent practice social worker by incumbent ability to expand clinical knowledge in the profession, provide consultation and guidance to colleagues, role model effective social work practice skills, teach or provide orientation to less experienced social workers, develop innovations in practice interventions, and provide clinical supervision for social work licensure or certification. Senior Social Workers must be licensed or certified by a state at the advanced practice level which included an ASWB advanced generalist or clinical examination, unless they are grandfathered by the state in which they are licensed to practice at the advance practice level. 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. Senior Social Workers should have the ability to provide Clinical Supervision to Social Work staff for state licensure. Senior Social Worker provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with polytrauma injuries, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, visual impairment, post-traumatic stress disorder, addictions, and other serious disorders. Practice and services in specialty areas, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services. Incumbent is able to demonstrate the ability to design changes based on empirical findings. Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff and students in the special area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or specialty certifications. Independently provides advanced-level diagnosis, assessment, treatment, planning, and advanced case management services to veterans with highly complex mental health problems, including dual diagnoses, reflecting the age-specific, psychosocial, and functional needs of the patient. Has ability to independently operate a government-owned motor vehicle and drive cumulative long distances (up to several hundreds of miles) per work week. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM Compressed/Flexible: As needed by department Telework: Not Available Travel: Up to 25% may be required.

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OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans? The VA Tampa Healthcare System provides you with outstanding health care, trains America's future health care providers, and conducts important medical research. We provide you with health care services at 20 locations in central Florida. Facilities include our James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa and 16 community-based outpatient clinics in Brooksville, Hidden River (Tampa), Lakeland, Lecanto, New Port Richey, South Hillsborough (Riverview), and Zephyrhills. We also maintain 2 mobile clinics for Veterans who can't easily visit one of our facilities, and we offer a domiciliary in Tampa for Veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The VA