Social Worker (PCMHI) Position Available In Androscoggin, Maine

Social Worker (PCMHI) Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administrion Veterans Health Administrion Summary The incumbent serves as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker providing Primary Care Mental Health Integrion and Behavioral Health services to pients with complex bio-psycho-social issues enrolled the Jonhan M. Wainwright Memorial VAMC. The Social Worker coordines the day-to-day integred mental health pient care trement needs of the Community Based Outpient Clinic. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 02/24/2025 to 03/11/2025 Salary $72,539

• $114,089 per year GS-9 ($72,539
• $94,298) // GS-11 ($87,765
• $114,089) Pay scale & grade GS 00 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Lewiston, ID 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential 11 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

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Control number 832398400 This job is open to Federal employees

• Competitive service Current or former competitive service federal employees. Federal employees
• Excepted service Current excepted service federal employees.

Internal to an agency Current federal employees of this agency. Clarificion from the agency This announcement is open to current permanent Department of Veterans Affairs employees and current permanent Federal employees of other agencies. Applicants referred in the following order: 1. Current permanent Facility employees.
2. Current permanent Agency (Department of Veterans Affairs) employees.
3. Current permanent employees of other Federal agencies. The public The public Videos Duties

RELOCATION INCENTIVE MAY BE AUTHORIZED

Develop an assessment of the veteran in collaborion with the interdisciplinary trement team, the Veteran, family members and significant others. Provide compassione care to Veterans with serious medical and psychiric problems thru crisis intervention, counseling, and/or referral. Assist Veterans to develop coping skills for multiple complex psychosocial issues which impact functioning through group classes on family life skills. Identify resources to meet the needs of Veterans. Deliver psychosocial services via individual, couple, family, and group counseling utilizing face-to-face, telephone, or tele-mental health video conferencing. Provide the following integred mental health service delivery in a Primary Care setting: Collaborion with PCP/Team, making “warm hand-off” a priority. Open Access form in place to address same day clinical issues, “Trouble shooting”. Rapid evaluion and stabilizion, consultion. Once stable, will work in collaborion with Primary Care Provider (PCP) and return pient to PCP for routine care. Refer and help facilite transfer (Referral Management) to specialty mental health care when indiced. Develop the trement plan in collaborion with the interdisciplinary trement team, the Veteran, family members, and significant others, setting achievable trement goals with the Veteran/family and trement team. Collabore with other service providers in reassessing the Veteran’s needs. Educe the Veteran and/or caregiver of the available services and assisting them in establishing the approprie referrals based on the Veteran’s preference or th of his surroge decision-maker. Use the social work resource file of VA and community social service programs to refer Veterans. Act as an advoce when it serves the best interest of the Veteran/family. Educe and encourage the Veteran/family to advoce on their own behalf, thus fostering a sense of independence and empowerment. Make rapid assessments and develop crisis management plans for transfer to a safe and supportive environment. Provide educion reled to VA and community resources, entitlements, Advance Directives/Living Will and will refer Veterans/families to the approprie interdisciplinary team member for identified health educion needs. Review the progress notes from the other providers to accurely determine the strengths and limitions of each Veteran being referred for mental health services. Educe the Veteran, their families and the team of all the options available to them and will collabore with the Veteran and family on the preferred option. Provide Veterans and their caregivers with ongoing supportive counseling and evidence-based therapies as approprie. Enter Veteran/family contacts in the electronic record using approprie 3 forms and temples. Ensure th communicion is compliant with privacy, Release of Informion and Health Informion Portability and Accountability Act regulions. Establish and maintain positive working relionships with employees, volunteers, consumers and stakeholders within the VA and outside community agencies Attend staff meetings. Participe in activities th obtain feedback from clients and work to enhance services as needed. Participe in providing Tele-Mental Health Services to Veterans in rural remote areas as approprie to address their specific psycho-social care needs.

Social Work :

Work Schedule :

Monday

• Friday 8:00am
• 4:30pm

Compressed/Flexible :

Available, depending on the needs of the department Relocion Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): May be

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 :

Not Available Virtual:

This is not a virtual position. Functional Stement # : 000000 Permanent Change of Stion (PCS): Not Authorized Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job. Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must be proficient in written and spoken English. You may be required to serve a probionary period. Subject to background/security investigion. Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Participion in the seasonal influenza vaccinion program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). Participion in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccinion program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administrion Health Care Personnel (HCP)

• See “Additional Informion” below for details.

Qualificions To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements within 30 days of the closing de of this announcement.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

: Citizenship. Be a citizen of the United Stes. (Non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with chapter 3, section A, paragraph 3g this part). English Language Proficiency. Candides must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. § 7403(f). Educion. Have a master’s degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Educion (CSWE). Gradues of schools of social work th are in candidacy stus do not meet this requirement until the School of Social Work is fully accredited. A doctoral degree in social work may not be substituted for the master’s degree in social work. Verificion of the degree can be made by going to http://www.cswe.org/Accredition to verify th the social work degree meets the accredition standards for a masters of social work. (COPY

OF TRANSCRIPT WITH CONFERRED DATE REQUIRED

) Licensure/Certificion. Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS-0185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a ste to independently practice social work the master’s degree level. Current ste requirements may be found by going to http://vaww.va.gov/OHRM/T38Hybrid/. (COPY

OF LICENSE REQUIRED FOR GS-11

) Exception. VHA may waive the licensure or certificion requirement for persons who are otherwise qualified, pending completion of ste prerequisites for licensure/certificion examinions. This exception only applies the GS-9 grade level . For the GS-11 grade level and above, the candide must be licensed or certified. At the time of appointment, the supervisor, chief social work or social work executive will provide the unlicensed/uncertified social worker with the written requirements for licensure or certificion, including the time by which the license or certificion must be obtained and the consequences for not becoming licensed or certified by the deadline. May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfhering Provision as described in the VA Qualificion Standard for this occupion (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupion and meet the criteria).

GRADE DETERMINATIONS

: GS-9 Experience, Educion, and Licensure. None beyond the basic requirements. Demonstred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs). In addition to the experience above, the candide must demonstre all of the following

KSAs:

(a) Ability to work with Veterans and family members from various socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, educional, and other diversified backgrounds utilizing counseling skills. (b) Ability to assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of Veterans and their family members, and to formule and implement a trement plan, identifying the Veterans problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and assistance needed. (c) Ability to implement trement modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups to achieve trement goals. This requires judgment and skill in utilizing supportive, problem solving, or crisis intervention techniques. (d) Ability to establish and maintain effective working relionships and communice with clients, staff, and representives of community agencies. (e) Fundamental knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and trement procedures. This includes acute, chronic, and traumic illnesses/injuries; common medicions and their effects/side effects; and medical terminology. GS-11 Experience and Licensure. Appointment to the GS-11 grade level requires completion of a minimum of one year of post-MSW experience equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the field of health care or other social work-reled settings, and licensure or certificion in a ste the independent practice level. OR, Educion. In addition to meeting basic requirements, a doctoral degree in social work from a school of social work may be substituted for the required one year of professional social work experience in a clinical setting. (COPY

OF TRANSCRIPT WITH CONFERRED DATE REQUIRED

) Demonstred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, candides must demonstre all of the following

KSAs:

(a) Knowledge of community resources, how to make approprie referrals to community and other governmental agencies for services, and ability to coordine services. (b) Skill in independently conducting psychosocial assessments and trement interventions to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educional and other diversified backgrounds. (c) Knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities and trement procedures (i.e. acute, chronic and traumic illnesses/injuries, common medicions and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology) to formule a trement plan. (d) Skill in independently implementing different trement modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiric, medical, and social problems to achieve trement goals. (e) Ability to provide consultion services to new social workers, social work gradue students, and other staff about the psychosocial needs of pients and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and compliance with trement.

REFERENCE

For more informion on this qualificion standard, please . The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-11. The actual grade which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is in the range of GS-9 to

GS-11. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Use of fingers, both hands required, able to see computer screen, and hearing (aid may be permitted). Environmental factors include working closely with others and working alone. Educion

IMPORTANT

A transcript must be submitted with your applicion if you are basing all or part of your qualificions on educion. Additional informion Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacion)

Leave:

Federal Employees earn annual leave a re (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience. This credited service can be used in determining the re which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment de and is not guaranteed. During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive stus. VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-reled positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority. Pursuant to VHA Directive 1193.01, VHA health care personnel (HCP) are required to be against

COVID-19

subject to such accommodions as required by law (i.e., medical, religious or pregnancy). VHA HCPs do not include remote workers who only infrequently enter VHA locions. If selected, you required to be fully vaccined against COVID-19 and submit documention of proof of vaccinion before your start de. The agency will provide additional informion regarding wh informion or documention needed and how you can request a legally required accommodion from this requirement using the reasonable accommodion process. If you are unable to apply online or need an alterne method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement. Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant’s criminal history prior to accepting a tentive job offer. For more informion about the Act and the complaint process, . Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How You Will Be Evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Your applicion, resume, C.V., and/or supporting documention verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect considerion for employment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify informion provided by a candide (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candide’s abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position. It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those th have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members :

Please the site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegrion support for military service members. Benefits A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window . Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required Documents As a new or existing federal employee, you and your family may have access to a range of benefits. Your benefits depend on the type of position you have

• whether you’re a permanent, part-time, temporary or an intermittent employee.

You may be eligible for the following benefits, however, check with your agency to make sure you’re eligible under their policies. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: Resume SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please use this to ensure you have included all documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50’s (current/former Federal employees), etc. Cover Letter License Other (1) Performance Appraisal Professional Certificion Resume SF-50/

Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript NOTE:

Claiming Agency or Federal Employee Eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent (not more than 1 year old) Notificion of Personnel Action, SF-50 ( Not an award SF-50 ). Your SF-50 must include: Position title, pay plan/series/grade Tenure code Position Occupied

• type of appointment (Competitive or Excepted) Within Grade Increase, General Adjustments, or Promotion SF-50’s are best, Award SF-50’s do not include this pertinent informion.

Veterans’ preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 03/11/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click . To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your

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resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.

NOTE:

It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de. To verify your applicion is complete, log into your

USA JOBS

account, , select the Applicion Stus link and then select the more informion link for this position. The Details page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent reled to this applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. To return to an incomplete applicion, log into your

USA JOBS

account and click Upde Applicion in the vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your

USA JOBS

account or your applicion incomplete. Agency contact informion Randi Tran Phone Address Jonhan M Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center 77 Wainwright Drive Walla Walla, WA 99362 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the .

NOTE:

Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full

• and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities.

HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities. Fair and Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Required Documents To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes: Resume SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please use this to ensure you have included all documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50’s (current/former Federal employees), etc. Cover Letter License Other (1) Performance Appraisal Professional Certificion Resume SF-50/

Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript NOTE:

Claiming Agency or Federal Employee Eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent (not more than 1 year old) Notificion of Personnel Action, SF-50 ( Not an award SF-50 ). Your SF-50 must include: Position title, pay plan/series/grade Tenure code Position Occupied

• type of appointment (Competitive or Excepted) Within Grade Increase, General Adjustments, or Promotion SF-50’s are best, Award SF-50’s do not include this pertinent informion.

Veterans’ preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 03/11/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click . To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your

USA JOBS

resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire. Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.

NOTE:

It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de. To verify your applicion is complete, log into your

USA JOBS

account, , select the Applicion Stus link and then select the more informion link for this position. The Details page will display the stus of your applicion, the documention received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent reled to this applicion. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. To return to an incomplete applicion, log into your

USA JOBS

account and click Upde Applicion in the vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your

USA JOBS

account or your applicion incomplete. Agency contact informion Randi Tran Phone Address Jonhan M Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center 77 Wainwright Drive Walla Walla, WA 99362 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made. You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the .

NOTE:

Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full

• and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities.

HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities. Fair & Transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 02/24/2025 to 03/11/2025 Salary $72,539

• $114,089 per year GS-9 ($72,539
• $94,298) // GS-11 ($87,765
• $114,089) Pay scale & grade GS 00 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Lewiston, ID 1 vacancy Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential 11 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number

CBSV-12698948-25-RT

Control number 832398400 ., .