The Senior Social Worker demonstrates an 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.
Major duties include, but are not limited to: Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients. Provides a variety of psychosocial services to Veterans in the inpatient setting. Provides supportive counseling, education, and appropriate case management services to reduce the Veteran's stress throughout all phases of diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care.
Provides individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with serious medical and psychiatric disorders. Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services.
Offers consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills. 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. Performs other related duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:00AM to 3:30PM. Telework: Not Available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 000000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Jorge.Delarosa@va.gov · 480-232-7991
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $114695 – $149106/yr.
Applications close on 2026-10-30.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
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