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Social Worker – Patient Aligned Care Team (Geriatric PACT)
Veterans Health Administration · Coatesville, Pennsylvania · Closes tomorrow
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
This job is open to the public. The conditions of employment say you must be a U.S. citizen to apply.
Experience: For GS-9, no experience beyond the basic education and licensing requirements is needed. For GS-11, you need at least 1 year of experience after your master's degree in social work, at the GS-9 level, in health care or social work settings, plus a state license to practice independently. Experience in geriatric, hospital, hospice, or medical social work is preferred.
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. For GS-11, a doctoral degree in social work can replace the one year of professional social work experience in a clinical setting.
Licenses and certifications:
- State license or certification to independently practice social work at the master's level (required for GS-11 and above; GS-9 may be waived pending exam completion)
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, based on an online occupational questionnaire and your submitted documents. Your application, resume, and documents will be verified, and pre-employment reference checks may be done; errors or missing documents may lower your rating or affect consideration.
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 long-form resume or CV must clearly show your social work experience, dates, and hours per week, since the VA verifies it.
- Upload your transcript, which is required for every application, even if you do not use education to qualify.
- For GS-11 consideration, state your post-master's social work experience and your independent practice license clearly.
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