Social Worker (Primary Care – PACT) Position Available In Catawba, North Carolina

Social Worker (Primary Care

• PACT) Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administrion Veterans Health Administrion Summary The Primary Care PACT Social Worker provides Veterans in the Charles George VA Medical Center, Western North Carolina Health Care System’s Community Based Outpient Clinic in Hickory, North Carolina. Overview Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/27/2025 to 06/13/2025 Salary $75,943
• $119,443 per year Pay scale & grade GS 9
• 11 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Hickory, NC 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

CBTA-12735180-25-JAW

Control number 837630600 This job is open to The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Videos Duties VA Careers

• Social Work :

  Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: Screening/Assessment

• The social worker will develop an assessment of the Veteran in collaborion with the interdisciplinary trement team, the Veteran, family members and significant others, whenever possible.

The goal of the assessment is to highlight the Veteran’s strengths, limitions, and internal/external supports and service needs in order to optimize the Veteran’s functional stus and safely maintain the Veteran in his/her home. It is the responsibility of the social worker, working within the interdisciplinary trement team, to develop a trement plan with the Veteran based on this assessment. Psychotherapy

• Social worker will provide the Veteran with individual and group psychotherapy uniquely tailored to meet the needs of the Veteran. The purpose of such therapy is to focus of the unique needs of the Veteran, address personal trauma and or needs. Trement Planning/Goal Setting
• The social worker is responsible for developing the trement plan, and setting achievable trement goals with the Veteran/family in collaborion with the interdisciplinary trement team members.

The social worker will include psychosocial problems onto the interdisciplinary trement plan, will tend weekly interdisciplinary care planning meetings; ongoing assessments and will upde trement plans when necessary or as health stus changes. Social workers will address the unique needs of the chronically mentally ill, frail, disabled Veteran. Administrive responsibilities

• The social worker will enter all Veteran/family contacts in the electronic record using approprie forms and temples.

This informion entered in a complete, confidential, and professional manner to insure informion on the pient is shared with other VA staff. This informion reviewed on a regular basis. The social worker will establish and maintain positive working relionships with employees, volunteers, consumers and stakeholders within the VA and outside community agencies. Social Worker will tend all approprie staff meetings and perform other duties as required by Social Work Service. The social worker will collabore in the performance improvement processes and comply with performance measures as required by the VA for their specific populion and/or program. Social worker will participe in activities th obtain feedback from Veterans and work to enhance services as needed. This may include coverage responsibilities in the absence of other staff to ensure timely access and coordinion of care.

Work Schedule :

M-F 7:30am

• 4:00pm

Pay:

Competitive salary and regular salary increases When setting pay, a higher step re of the approprie grade may be determined after considerion of higher or unique qualificions or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Re 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 :

Position is not eligible for

Telework Virtual:

This is not a virtual position. Functional Stement # : 000000 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. Acceptable form(s) of identificion required to complete pre-employment requirements ( ). Effective May 7, 2025, driver’s licenses or ste-issued dentificion cards th are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identificion for employment. Must pass pre-employment evaluion prior to appointment Participion in the seasonal influenza vaccinion program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).

Qualificions Basic Requirements:

Citizenship

• You must be a citizen of the United Stes English Language Proficiency
• You must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f) Educion and/or Experience Combinion
• You must possess 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.

Note:

A doctoral degree in Social Work may NOT be substituted for the master’s degree in Social Work. License or Certificion

• You must be licensed or certified by a ste to independently practice social work the master’s degree level.
• Exception
• For assignments the GS-9 level, VHA may waive the licensure or certificion requirement for persons who are otherwise qualified, pending completion of ste prerequisites for licensure/certificion examinions.

VHA social workers who are not licensed or certified the time of appointment must become licensed or certified the independent, master’s level within three years of their appointment as a social worker. Grandfher Provision. A Social Worker employed in VHA on the effective de of the qualificion standard (9/10/2019) who did not meet all the basic requirements in this standard, but who met the qualificions applicable to the position the time they were appointed, the following provisions apply: Employees may be reassigned, promoted up to and including the full performance (journey) level or changed to lower grade within the occupion but may not be promoted beyond the journeyman level or placed in supervisory or managerial positions. Employees in an occupion th requires a licensure/certificion/ registrion only higher grade levels must meet the licensure/ certificion/registrion requirement before they can be promoted to those higher grade levels. Employees who are appointed on a temporary basis prior to the effective de of the qualificion standard may not have their temporary appointment extended or be reappointed on a temporary or permanent basis until they fully meet the basic requirements of the standard. Employees who are converted to title 38 hybrid stus under this provision and subsequently leave the occupion lose protected stus and must meet the full VA qualificion standard requirements in effect the time of re-entry to the occupion. Employees initially grandfhered into this occupion who subsequently obtain additional educion and/or licensure/certificion/registrion th meet all the basic requirements of this qualificion standard must maintain the required credentials as a condition of employment in the occupion. GS-09 Social Worker•

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

In addition to meeting the basic requirements, to qualify for the GS-09, you must demonstre the following

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Ability to utilize counseling skills when working with Veterans and family members. 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. 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. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relionships and communice with clients, staff, and representives of community agencies. 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

Licensure Requirement:

You must be licensed or certified by a ste to independently practice social work the master’s degree level. GS-11

Experience or Educion Requirement:

In addition to meeting the basic requirements, to qualify for the GS-11, you must possess 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, (VA or non

• VA experience) and licensure or certificion in a ste the independent practice level.

Examples of specialized experience include but are not limited to: Working under close supervision in program areas th do not require specialized knowledge or experience. Identifying behaviors or symptoms of abuse, neglect or exploition; providing educion on advance directives and advanced care planning; providing social work case management; acting as an pient/family member/caregiver advoce with community service providers/agencies; assessing the psychosocial functioning and needs of pients and their family members. In collaborion with the pient, family, and interdisciplinary trement teams, identifying strengths, weaknesses, coping skills and psychosocial acuity. Maintaining a current network of internal and external resources to educe the pient and/or family members/caregivers and assist with approprie referrals.

• OR•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.

In addition to the experience above, you must demonstre the following

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge of community resources, how to make approprie referrals to community and other governmental agencies for services, and ability to coordine services. Skill in independently conducting psychosocial assessments and trement interventions to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic, educional, and other backgrounds. 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. 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. 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.

Educion Note:

Only educion or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your educion here: . If you are using foreign educion to meet qualificion requirements, you must send a Certifice of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for th educion. For further informion, : . 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 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. 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.

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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 Transcript The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please 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 DD-214/ Stement of Service Disability Letter (VA) License Other (1) PCS Orders Professional Certificion Resume Separion Notice (RIF) SF-15 SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript 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 06/13/2025 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. Agency contact informion John Westling Phone Address Charles George VA Medical Center 1100 Tunnel Road Asheville, NC 28805 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 Transcript The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please 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 DD-214/ Stement of Service Disability Letter (VA) License Other (1) PCS Orders Professional Certificion Resume Separion Notice (RIF) SF-15 SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action Transcript 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 06/13/2025 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. Agency contact informion John Westling Phone Address Charles George VA Medical Center 1100 Tunnel Road Asheville, NC 28805 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 05/27/2025 to 06/13/2025 Salary $75,943

• $119,443 per year Pay scale & grade GS 9
• 11 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Hickory, NC 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

CBTA-12735180-25-JAW

Control number 837630600 ., .