Social Worker (Service Chief)

Summary

The Social Work Chief holds full responsibility for delivering complex social work services that require advanced practice skills. Although the position is mainly administrative, the Chief must be licensed and capable of practicing at the advanced clinical level. Key responsibilities include oversight of clinical practice for all GS-0185 social workers, program management, staff education, human resources functions, supervision, and overall organizational leadership.

Duties

• Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Social Work Chief defines the mission and vision for Social Work Service, establishes service priorities, and ensures consistent application of standards of care, policy, and professional practice.
• The position involves collaborating with various internal and external partners and providing expert guidance on social work standards, competencies, productivity, and ongoing education.
• The incumbent is responsible for a range of duties, including but not limited to the following:
• Lead strategic planning, operations, and administrative and clinical supervision for Social Work
• Service. Oversee professional social work activities across
• CTVHCS to ensure educational, psychosocial, case management, and quality-of-care needs are met.
• Establish social work objectives based on healthcare system mission, goals, programs, and psychosocial and health related social needs.
• Evaluate program effectiveness through internal reviews, corrective actions, audit responses, and follow-up procedures; report results to senior leadership.
• Manage the Social Work Associated Health Trainee
• Program and maintain compliance with VA, Joint
• Commission, and affiliated School of Social
• Work standards. Establish and maintain partnerships with affiliated schools, universities, community agencies, local and state organizations, healthcare partners, and other
• Prepare annual service line briefings, budget projections, expenditure monitoring, and fund reallocation recommendations.
• Applies legal, ethical, and professional standards to social work practice.
• Maintains advanced skill to ensure oversight and compliance with social work licensure, practice, policy, competency, productivity, and accreditation requirements.
• Oversee development of measurable treatment protocols and practice models to support data analysis, quality improvement, and program evaluation.
• Draft or assign healthcare system policies, procedures, functional statements, and performance standards for social work positions.
• Communicate performance expectations to employees and approve social work functional statements across the healthcare system.
• Maintains advanced skill to ensure oversight and compliance with social work licensure, practice, policy, competency, productivity, and accreditation requirements.
• Recommend recruitment, orientation, staffing, and continuing education actions based on program needs.
• Brief leadership orally and writing on Social Work
• Service matters affecting program planning and decision-making.
• Maintain reporting systems to ensure timely and accurate recurring, non-recurring, periodic, and locally required reports.
• Convene regular social work discipline and service line meetings and ensure quality monitoring activities are reviewed.
• Review clinical performance, schedules, staff meetings, and complex or unusual case consultations.
• Work Schedule: Monday
• 4:00pm Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): 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)
• Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
• Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
• 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)
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
• Functional Statement #: 55685-F Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements

• 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 (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• 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 "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
• As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
• In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the
• Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the
• Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Education

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/. You must possess 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. Note: A doctoral degree in Social Work may NOT be substituted for the master’s degree in Social Work. NOTE: If your school has changed names, or is no longer in existence, you must provide this information in your application. NOTE: If your school was accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) at the time of graduation but is no longer listed on the CSWE website (https://www.cswe.org/accreditation/about/directory/), you must provide documentation of accreditation with your application packet.

Required Documents

• To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes:
• SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action Special Note for
• Applications: To complete your application, please use the following link https://vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Resume.docx to download the standard Clinical Resume
• This one-page document does not need to be modified and must be uploaded into the two-page restricted 'Resume' document upload field.
• Your full resume/CV may be uploaded without page limitation into the 'Other' document upload field.
• The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualifications for this position.
• Please ensure you have included all documents required for your application, such as a copy of your transcript (if using education to qualify), SF-50's (current/former
• Federal employees), etc. Cover Letter
• DD-214/ Statement of Service Disability Letter (Schedule A) License Other (1) Performance Appraisal Professional Certification Resume
• SF-15 SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action Transcript