This vacancy will remain open until filled. The first cut-off date is 11/21/2024. Additional applications will be referred as needed.
VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU
VA Careers - Licensed Clinical Social Worker: https://youtube.com/embed/U_xC25QsN0w
Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf
Social Work: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Social-Worker-Career-Flyer.pdf
A Recruitment/Relocation Incentive may be authorized for a Highly Qualified Individual.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
Disruptive Behavior Committee (DBC)
- Responsible for coordinating/managing a multidisciplinary committee DBC, which may include Police, Patient Advocates, Patient Safety Personnel, Physicians, Pharmacists, etc.
- Coordinating/operationalizing DBC and ensuring compliance/collaboration with local facility and VA Central Office WVPP initiatives
- Conducting risk assessments for violence risk using structured professional judgment as an evidence-based best practice
- Using findings in collaboration with DBC members to assess/manage risk for violence and other safety-compromising behaviors
- Engaging best practices in threat management to prevent violence in the workplace in accordance with applicable State, Federal, local and Tribal laws, directives and policies
- Responsible for management of computer-based flagging systems for identifying potentially violent or dangerous veteran patients
- Working closely with executive leadership and service line leadership to ensure DBC is adequately staffed/resourced and that information pertaining to organizational safety is communicated effectively/efficiently
Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior (PMDB) Program - Collaborating with PMDB program. As such possess or acquire and maintain PMDB facility trainer status
- Providing consultation and guidance to colleagues, role model effective social work practice skills, teach or provide orientation to less experienced social workers and develop innovations in practice interventions
Employee Threat Assessment Team - Administering information and analytical systems to evaluate and enhance the quality of service provided to Veterans, families, Caregivers and VA employees impacted by intimate partner violence
- Developing and implementing information systems to track service activities including visits, referrals, demographics, equipment utilization and Veteran satisfaction.
- Advising and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams throughout the medical center on workplace violence and risk management issues.
- Creating educational tools, developing programs and implementing training focused on specific workplace violence prevention needs/issues.
Work Schedule: Fulltime, Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized. Recruitment incentives may be authorized to full-time, part time or intermittent individuals in their first appointment as a Federal employee or to a newly appointed former Federal employee with at least a 90-day break in service.
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Authorized. Relocation incentives may be authorized to full-time Federal employees who must change worksites and physically relocate to a different geographic area when the approving official determines that without the incentive, it would be difficult to fill the position with a high-quality candidate.
EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact
VISN17EDRP2@VA.GOV, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance.
Learn more Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of existing pay, higher or unique qualifications, or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
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.
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: Ad-hoc
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 000000
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
This is a Bargaining Unit position
Starting at $95,396 Per Year (GS 12)
