Senior Social Worker-Mental Health

Summary James A. Haley Veteran's Hospital is looking for Senior Social Worker for Lecanto Community Based Outpatient Clinic. James A. Haley Veteran's Hospital 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. In addition to the Primary Care Annex, it also encompasses seven community-based outpatient clinics. Responsibilities Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Lecanto Community-Based Mental Health 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. Additional duties include but not limited to: Performs specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness. 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. 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. 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. 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. Independently performs mental status examinations in the field and independently determine whether a veteran meets criteria for involuntary psychiatric examination (Baker Act), and ability to provide continuous case management services through hospitalization, discharge, and return to the community. Independently makes decisions in crisis management situations to include -potentially suicidal or homicidal veterans; psychiatrically decompensated veterans; veterans at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation; and veterans experiencing severe lack of social-economic supports -using advanced clinical training and professional skills, and effectively uses his/her problem-solving skills to assist the veteran, family, and staff. Has ability to function as an integral member of an interdisciplinary treatment team, working closely with psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, and nurses (advanced practice and registered), and other medical professionals, and ability to clearly communicate orally and in writing complex psychosocial, mental health, and medical information. Has ability to independently operate a government-owned motor vehicle and drive cumulative long distances (up to several hundreds of miles) per work week. Demonstrates knowledge of VA and community resources to meet the complex psychosocial needs of mental health patients to insure they are referred to the least restrictive environment that meets the level of care needed. May be assigned administrative responsibility for clinical program development and is accountable for clinical program effectiveness and modification of service patterns. Assignments include clinical settings where they have limited access to onsite supervision such as CBOCs or satellite outpatient clinics. Collaborates with the other members of the treatment team in the provision of comprehensive health care services to Veterans, ensures equity of access, service, and benefits to this population, ensures the care provided is of the highest quality. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, with rotating tours of duty as needed. Recruitment/Relocation Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66. Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #:70021F; Senior Social Worker-Mental Health Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must be proficient in written and spoken English. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical examination. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). Complete all application requirements detailed in the

Created: 2025-10-16