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Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Syracuse, New York · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
You must be a U.S. citizen to apply. Hiring happens in stages: first Syracuse VA Medical Center employees, then VHA employees, then all U.S. citizens.
Experience: You need at least 1 year of experience after your social work master's degree, at the GS-9 level, in health care or other social work settings (VA or non-VA). You also need a state license to practice social work independently.
Education: You need a master's degree in social work from a school fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Schools in candidacy status do not count until they are fully accredited. A doctoral degree in social work can replace the 1 year of professional experience in a clinical setting.
Licenses and certifications:
- State license or certification to practice social work independently
- License must stay full, valid, and unrestricted
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes tomorrow (November 5, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications. Your application, resume, and documents will be verified, so describe your experience clearly and specifically, since the agency will not assume experience. Missing or incomplete information may lead to an ineligible rating or a lower rating.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Upload a current social worker license, since the license is required with your application.
- Use a transcript from a CSWE-accredited social work master's program, and only accredited schools count.
- Describe your post-MSW work with dates and hours, and show it matches the GS-9 level in health care or social work settings.
- The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM ET on 11/05/2026.
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