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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Shreveport, Louisiana · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Competitive service, The public, Federal employees - Excepted service, Internal to an agency.
Open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. Current permanent VA employees, federal employees of other agencies, and VHA health professions trainees may also apply, and Veterans' preference is used for the last group in the referral order.
Experience: You need at least 2 years of experience after you earned advanced practice clinical licensure, in a specialized area of social work. One of those years must be equivalent to the GS-11 grade level.
Education: You need a master's degree in social work from a school fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). A doctoral degree in social work cannot replace the master's degree.
Licenses and certifications:
- State license or certification to independently practice social work at the master's level
- Advanced practice state license, which includes an advanced generalist or clinical exam, unless you are grandfathered
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 in 6 days (November 9, 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, based on your application, resume, and supporting documents. Your answers and documents will be verified, and errors or missing information may lower your rating or make you ineligible. The VA also performs pre-employment reference checks.
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, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Your resume must list job titles, duties, start and end dates by month and year, and average hours per week.
- Describe your experience clearly and specifically, because the agency will not assume anything about it.
- If you want the Education Debt Reduction Program, submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment.
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