Job Title
The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing a streamlined 30-Day Hiring Model designed to accelerate hiring while maintaining the highest standards of merit-based selection. This improved process reduces traditional hiring timelines by integrating early coordination, faster assessments, and efficient pre-employment actions. Applicants can expect a more transparent, predictable, and efficient hiring journey from announcement to entry on duty. What applicants can expect
Expedited candidate review once the announcement closes, Human Resources will quickly review applications, issue certificates of eligible candidates the day after the announcement closes and refer applicants for hiring manager consideration.
Quick interviews & references.
HR may arrange interviews and will request references within 3-5 days after being referred to the hiring manager.
Streamlined pre-employment requirements:
- Following a tentative offer, applicants should be prepared to complete required steps, such as fingerprinting and background check, credentialing, and medical examination within 3 days of the offer. Clear and timely communication: applicants will receive clear communication at key milestones, including referral, tentative offer, and onboarding instructions. After meeting pre-employment requirements, candidates will receive a final job offer and start date. Onboarding tasks may continue after starting, with HR ensuring timely completion for a smooth transition into VA service. If selected, applicants should be prepared to come onboard within 30 days of the announcement closing.
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Incumbent is responsible for the strategic planning and operation of Social Work Service. The employee is responsible for ensuring the administrative and clinical supervision of Social Work staff in their professional role. Incumbent ensures the provision of social work services and/or case management services in a variety of inpatient and outpatient program areas and clinics.
- Oversees all professional social work activities within the medical center ensuring that educational and quality of care functions related to the psychosocial needs of veterans are met. To accomplish the functions of this position, close cooperation with leadership.
- Responsible for making decisions regarding work problems presented by subordinate social work supervisors. Incumbent collaborates with others in negotiating, deciding upon and/or coordinating social work-related changes affecting other programs. The employee will advise Care Line Chiefs on problems involving the relationship of social work activities to the various units and programs.
- Make selections for supervisory and non-supervisory positions, hear group grievances and serious employee complaints, review serious disciplinary cases (i.e., those proposing suspensions and removals), and disciplinary problems involving key employees.
- Participates in making major decisions affecting the basic content and character of the operations of programs. These decisions involve matters, such as determining which program elements should be initiated, dropped, curtailed or emphasized; how many resources should be deployed; the time of curtailing, initiating, and changing program elements.
- Responsible for ensuring technical program development, management and evaluation that includes assessing the mission, goals, programs and problems of the medical facility in terms of psychosocial needs of patients and establishes social work objectives to meet those needs which are consistent with medical center goals.
- Reviews information pertaining to the social work programs from a variety of sources (e.g., federal, state and local including Veterans Health Administration, Joint Commission, National Association of Social Workers, Society of Social Work Administrators in Health Care of the American Hospital Association, etc.).
- Develops procedures for and ensures the implementation and achievement of the provision of social work services to medical facility patients on inpatient and outpatient programs.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm
Recruitment/Relocation Incentives: May be authorized for highly qualified applicants.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): May be authorized