Social Worker

**Summary**:
**About the Position**:You will work as a licensed clinical social worker and uses advance concepts, procedures, professional knowledge and sound judgement to carry out the clinical social work component of the Family Advocacy Program in accordance with accepted standards of professional conduct.

**This job is open to**:
**The public**:

- U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.

**Duties**:

- Develop treatment plans for family advocacy patients based on identified problems, psychosocial factors and/or treatment capabilities.
- Use specialized skills and training to interview victims, offenders, children and their Family members regarding allegations of abuse or neglect.
- Provide therapeutic treatment to victims, offenders and family members of those involved in domestic violence or child abuse and neglect.
- Obtain various data from legal, investigatory, medical, command, social service agencies, schools and/or resource programs for determination of abuse/neglect.
- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments of family advocacy patients using psychosocial instruments in order to form diagnosis.
- Provide emergency on-call crisis management services for behavioral health cases as designated by the department.
- Provide therapeutic treatment to victims, offenders and/or family members of those involved in domestic violence, child abuse or neglect in accordance to their treatment plans.
- Perform crisis intervention services to assist in the protection of family advocacy victims and/or families.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of employment**:

- You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
- One year trial/probationary period may be required.
- Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19.
- A Personnel Security Investigation is required
- This position has specific initial background investigation and periodic re-verification requirements since its duties require interaction with children and youth under the age of eighteen (18) years of age on a recurring basis.
- Immunization screening is required. Hepatitis B immunization is required for all positions with direct patient contact. Applicants may be required to show proof of other immunizations depending on the type of position.
- All Health Care Providers must be able to obtain and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) training and certification that is sponsored or endorsed by the American Heart Association (AHA).
- Current Advanced Life Support or other advanced certification does not supersede BLS completion.
- A pre-placement medical examination is required.
- Applicants must be able to fulfill credentialing requirements and obtain and maintain appropriate/relevant clinical privileges.
- This position requires Temporary Duty (TDY) or business travel approximately 5% of the time away from your permanent duty station.
- This position may require you to testify before agency and/or in court.

**Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply: US Citizens**

**_Basic Requirements for Social Worker (Family Advocacy):_**

**Degree**: Master's degree (or higher degree) in Social Work from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
**Experience required**: To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.

**Specialized experience is defined as**:_ in a family advocacy environment, 1) Assessing incidents of abuse; 2) providing counseling to abusers or victims, and 3) developing treatment plans to those involved in abuse._

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone-no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

**Licensure**: A current, active, valid, unrestricted clinical license to practice Social Work independently, offered by a U.S. State, District of Columbia, commonwealth, territory or jurisdiction is required.

**_This position requires 2 years of experience working in the field of child abuse and domestic abuse._**
- Additional Information:_
- U.S. citizens overseas under ordinarily resident status are not eligible for appointment under the Status of Forces Agreement.
- Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
- This position may be scheduled to transfer to the Defense Health Agency (DHA) no later than 30 Sept 2021 in accordance with the pro