Job Details: Social Worker (Women Veteran Program Manager)

Description: Best Care / Best Careers
SALARY RANGE: 70,699.00 - 91,913.00 USD per year

OPEN PERIOD: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 to Monday, May 19, 2008

SERIES & GRADE: GS-0185-12/12
MAJOR DUTIES:

The Women Veterans Program Manager (WVPM) is designated as the manager for all women veterans programs in the VA Boston Health Care System. The incumbent functions in a full-time WVPM capacity with overall responsibility for ensuring the delivery of quality services to women veterans giving guidance and leadership to the VA Boston Health Care System. The WVPM executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care. The WVPM exhibits leadership that is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for women veterans as a population and as an integrated program that crosses services/ and or discipline lines and influences the organizational mission and health care at the VA Boston Health Care System. The WVPM functions in a variety of roles impacting clinical centers or service lines, or multi site facilities to improve overall outcomes for women veterans. The effect of the WVPM?s practice goes beyond the Women's Health Center or team to encompass the Women Veterans Health Program facility-wide. The position is located at the VA Boston Health Care System, Brockton and Jamaica Plain campuses and is professionally and administratively responsible to the Chief of Staff, Medical Center Director, Associate Director, or comparable local management level leader, and the Deputy Field Director for the Women's Health Program. Duties include but are not limited to: collaborating with physicians, peers, and others in the development of individualized patient care to veteran women; enhancing services which are specific and unique to the needs of women; planning, organizing, coordinating, directing, and evaluating facility services and programs including educational programs; collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data concerning female veterans; monitoring indicators and initiatives relating to specialty services, reviewing Quality Management reports, KLF data, and Advanced Clinical Access data on an on-going basis and compiling demographic and health-related research data for local, regional and national projects, as appropriate.

POSITION INFORMATION: Full-Time Permanent
DUTY LOCATIONS: 1 vacancy - Brockton,

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL GRADES: The basic requirements for employment as a VA social worker are prescribed by statute, Title 38 United States Code (U.S.C.) ?7409(b)(9), as amended by section 205 of Public Law 106-419, November 1, 2000. All applicants for the position of social worker in VHA, to qualify for appointment, must :

a. Have a Master's degree in social work from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.

b. Be licensed or certified at the Master's level to independently practice social work in a state.

Exception: VA may waive the licensure and/or certification requirement for persons who are otherwise qualified, pending completion of state prerequisites for examination. VA social workers who are not licensed at the time of appointment must be licensed or certified at the Master's level, within 3 years of their appointment as a social worker or 1 year from the day they meet the full requirements of the state for licensure or certification, whichever is longer. Those who fail to obtain state licensure or certification within the required time frames must be removed from the General Schedule (GS)-185 social worker series. This may result in termination of employment.

NOTE: Persons, who were permanently employed as social workers, GS‑185 series, in VHA on or before August 14, 1991, do not have to satisfy the licensure and/or certification requirement. These employees may be promoted, demoted, or reassigned within the GS-185 occupational series. However, if an employee initially retained in this manner leaves this job series, either voluntarily or through adverse action, the employee loses protected status. If subsequently hired or reassigned as a social worker in VHA, that employee would have to meet the full requirements (including licensure and/or certification) in effect at the time of reentry.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

In addition to meeting all basic requirements, applicants must have 1 year of professional social work experience equivalent to the next lower grade level. This experience must have demonstrated broad knowledge of social work and superior skill and judgment in professional practice. For research, education and program administration positions, the 1-year requirement must have been in social work research, social work education (class or field instruction) or program administration, as appropriate. Except for social work research positions, the requirement for 1 year of experience in a clinical setting must also be met.

See qualification requirements

You must be a U.S. citizen to qualify for this position.

After appointment, you will be subject to random testing for illegal drug use.

You will need to successfully complete a background security investigation before you can be appointed into this position.

Applicants for this position must pass a pre-employment medical examination.

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:
You will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications required; and on the extent to which your application shows that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with this position as defined below. When describing your knowledge, skills, and abilities, please be sure to give examples and explain how often you used these skills, the complexity of the knowledge you possessed, the level of the people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled, etc.

Knowledge of oral and written techniques sufficient to develop and present; formal briefings; outreach materials; statistical data and reports.

Ability to initiate interdisciplinary projects to improve care of woman veterans.

Ability to maintain knowledge of current techniques, trends and professional issues relative to delivery of healthcare to women.

Ability to collect, analyze and present data.

HOW TO APPLY:

You must submit your application so that it will be received by the closing date of the announcement.

We encourage you to use the USAJOBS resume builder to speed the application process. If you are not applying on line, be sure your application includes the following: A resume or an Optional Application for Federal Employment (OF 612) or any other format. Although we do not require a specific format, certain information is required to determine if you are qualified.

Submit a narrative statement responding to the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) identified in the announcement. This information will be used to determine your eligibility and/or rating and is required.

Interested applicants must forward letter of intent, VA Form 10-2850C (Application for Associated Health Occupations) with a current resume/CV, an OF-306 Declaration for Federal Employment, appropriate college transcripts, proof of licensure and KSAOS listed above to:

Forms may be obtained by accessing www.usajobs.opm.gov/forms.asp or by contacting Job Information at 774-826-1203/1253/1773.

AGENCY CONTACT INFO:
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Job Information
Phone: 774-826-1203/1253/1773
Fax: 774-826-1187

Or write:
Department Of Veterans Affairs
940 Belmont Street
Brockton, MA 02301
US
Fax: 774-826-1187

WHAT TO EXPECT NEXT:
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Once your complete application is received we will conduct an evaluation of your qualifications and determine your ranking.
Ronald Gelineau, www.ronald.gelineau@va.gov

Posting Date: May 6 08