Summary This position is for a Program Coordinator, Mental Health Service Clinical Operations in the Mental Health Service of the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. The Program Coordinator reports to the Chief, Mental Health Service. The LTC Charles S. Kettles VA Medical Center is a level 1B high complexity facility with a strong academic affiliate partner in the University of Michigan Responsibilities Serves as Program Coordinator, Mental Health Service Clinical Operations. Is responsible for the Mental Health Clinical portfolio across the five sections of the Mental Health Service: 1) Acute , 2) Community, 3) CBOCs, 4) Outpatient, and 5) Homeless. Across all care delivery sites in VAAAHS, is responsible for: - Staff clinical assignments, utilization of staffing resources, and productivity. - Direct supervision of the Section Chiefs including Outpatient Section Chief, Acute Care Section Chief, Homeless Services Section Chief, and Community Section Chief. - Promotion of a healthy work environment for clinical staff and staff satisfaction. - Recruitment and retention of clinical staff. - Addressing/supporting supervisors with addressing personnel issues within the clinical operations reporting line. - Coverage of duties for the Chief of Mental Health and the Associate Chief of Mental Health for Quality and Administration as needed. - Responding to VISN/ VACO/ OIG/ White house/congressional inquiries and action items related to clinical operations for the mental health service. - Active implementation of initiatives, programs, policies, and procedures in the clinical service line in conjunction with the Associate Chief of Quality. - Oversight of Programmatic resources and program development. - Preparation of reports and presentations related to clinical operations as needed. - Compliance with all VACO/JC/OIG/CARF requirements. - Implementation of action plans related to improvement of clinical quality. - Serving as a point of contact for Mental Health in interactions with other hospital services. - Developing short and long term goals and action plans for all clinical endeavors. - Ensuring that resources necessary for clinical operations are planned and available. - Participating in decision making about resource utilization including space and human resource management. - Mentoring clinical leaders (especially new leaders) to improve effectiveness. - Providing clinical input into new and renovation projects ongoing in the service. VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU Work Schedule: Monday-Friday (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Yes - as determined by the agency policy. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 93199-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications BASIC REQUIREMENTS. To qualify for appointment as a social worker in VHA, all applicants must: a. Citizenship. Be a citizen of the United States. b. Education. Have a master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Graduates of schools of social work that are in candidacy status 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. Verification of the degree can be made by going to http://www.cswe.org/Accreditation to verify that the social work degree meets the accreditation standards for a masters of social work. c. Licensure. Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS-0185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the master's degree level. Current state requirements may be found by going to http://vaww.va.gov/OHRM/T38Hybrid/. Loss of Licensure or Certification. Once licensed or certified, social workers must maintain a full, valid, and unrestricted independent license or certification to remain qualified for employment. Loss of licensure or certification will result in removal from the GS-0185 social worker series and may result in termination of employment. d. English Language Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. § 7403(f). GRADE REQUIREMENTS Advanced Practice Level is defined as the ability to provide independent and expert clinical psychosocial and case management services in a specialized area of practice to Veterans who tend to have serious and severe crises, may lack any familial and community support, may be poor self-monitors, may frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, or may have major deficits in coping skills and require continuing professional psychological support. The advanced practice or senior social worker has an increased depth and breadth of practice skills; has expertise in participating in the professional development of colleagues through mentorship and teaching; demonstrates leadership in developing and expanding professional intervention strategies; demonstrates leadership in defining and attending to professional practice issues; and has the ability to expand the conceptual knowledge of the profession. The advanced practice or senior social worker will make independent professional decisions and recommendations for agency action; the consequences to the Veteran of these decisions and actions may be quite serious. Work involves intensive social work services requiring the exercise of mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of complex social work practice skills not typically required in routine social work interventions. The advanced practice or senior social worker has mastered a range of specialized interventions and provides consultation to colleagues, renders professional opinions based on experience and expertise, develops new models of psychosocial assessment or intervention, and incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment. The advanced practice or senior social worker utilizes outcome evaluations to further treatment and designs system changes based on empirical findings. Differentiating Independent Practice from Advanced Practice Level. Experience must be evaluated to differentiate between independent practice and advanced practice levels. A social worker practicing at the independent level has a generalized knowledge of practice, (which is required for all social workers at the full performance level and above.), whereas the social worker practicing at the advanced level has specialized knowledge of practice typically related to a particular diagnosis or patient population. The advanced practice social worker can be further differentiated from the independent practice social worker by their ability to expand clinical knowledge in the profession, provide consultation and guidance to colleagues, role model effective social work practice skills, teach or provide orientation to less experienced social workers, develop innovations in practice interventions, and provide clinical supervision for social work licensure or certification. A social worker with advanced practice skills and personal qualifications that meet the standard for the senior social worker will have passed an advanced generalist or clinical Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) examination and be assigned to a position that requires use of the advanced practice skills in order to be considered for the senior social worker grade. Social Worker (Program Coordinator), GS-13 Experience/Education. One year of experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level. Experience must demonstrate possession of advanced practice skills and judgment, demonstrating progressively more professional competency. Candidates may have certification or othe