Job Title
Social Work Section Lead
Job Description
The Social Work Section Lead reports directly to the Chief of Mental Health or her/his designee. The incumbent may provide administrative oversight to several multidisciplinary programs within the MHS at the direction of the Chief, MHS. The specific programs being supervised will change as the needs of the Mental Health Service evolve, and the Social Work Section Lead is expected to adapt to the needs of the service. Duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Serves as a subject matter expert for Social Work in Mental Health
- Supervises a group of employees performing work at the GS-12 levels and below, including advanced practice social workers and social work program coordinators.
- Provides administrative, technical, and clinical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the unit.
- Provides technical assistance to internal and external stakeholders (e.g. state, local, and private agencies, and universities).
- Provides direct patient care services in an outpatient or inpatient setting, identifying patients' mental and medical health problems and designing diagnostic and therapeutic plans to meet these needs.
- Maintains a panel of patients with a wide variety of psychiatric disorders in collaboration with other mental health disciplines to provide comprehensive mental health care.
- Successfully utilizes and can coach others in the use of telehealth treatment modalities.
- Completes FPPE/OPPE processes in accordance with established procedures and best practices and completes and/or assigns in a timely manner any chart audits for credentialing of all Social Workers.
- Conducts or delegates to social work staff protected peer reviews for identified cases.
- Monitors and communicates to supervised staff performance and workload expectations consistent with local and national VA standards.
- Provides broad oversight to social work training programs aligned with mental health.
- Communicates actively and effectively to maintain and strengthen relationships and collaboration among the senior leadership of Mental Health Service and the Social Work Executive / Chief.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30a.m. to 4p.m.
Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized.
Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (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).
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.
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: May be authorized.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: F04544
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Required, selectee must file a financial disclosure report, OGE Form 450, with the 30 days of onboarding and then annually.
- Due to a critical staffing shortage, 38 U.S.C. § 7412 waives the requirement to apply Veterans' preference for this job announcement.
- This position is in the Excepted Service.
- This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.
- This position is covered by a special rate.
- Selectee may be required to work at any VA Maine Healthcare System campus, as needed.
- May be required to attend conference at other facilities or other VA sites on occasion.
- The incumbent may be required to travel to other VA campuses and CBOC's.
- Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
- Narrative responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) may be required from the selectee in order to proceed with the appointment.
- Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees.