SUMMARY

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
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.

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 provisions of Section 702 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, Public Law 114-328. The Act directed the DHA to take responsibility for the administration (i.e., authority, direction, and control) of military treatment facilities beginning 1 Oct 18. Employees will become DoD employees upon transfer to the DHA.

EDUCATION

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

IF YOU ARE RELYING ON YOUR EDUCATION TO MEET QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

• 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.