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SUPERVISORY SOCIAL WORKER (CLINICAL), Schofield Barracks, Honolulu HI.

**About the Position:** Serves as a Supervisory Social Worker (Clinical), in Behavioral Health (BH), independently plans and carries out assigned duties in accordance with general psychological theories, techniques and professional practice standards. Position is located at the Desmond T Doss Health Clinic on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

This is a Direct Hire Solicitation

The Island of Oahu in Hawaii is often nicknamed (or translated as) _"The Gathering Place"_ . It is currently the most populated Hawaiian Island. The city of Honolulu is the largest city, state capital, and main deep water marine port for the State of Hawaii. As a jurisdictional unit, the entire island of Oahu is in Honolulu County, although as a place name, Honolulu occupies only a portion of the southeast end of the island. Well-known features found on Oahu include Waikiki, Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, Hanauma, Kane’ohe Bay, Kailua Bay, North Shore, and the resort destination, Ko’Olina.

Oahu is also known for having the longest rain shower in history, which lasted for 200 consecutive days. Kāneʻohe Ranch reported 247 straight days with rain from August 27, 1993 to April 30, 1994. The average temperature in Oahu is around 70–85 °F (21–29 °C) and the island is the warmest in June through October. The weather during the winter is cooler, but still warm with an average temperature of 68–78 °F (20–26 °C).

Mission/Vision:

Tripler Army Medical Center serves as the premier Health Readiness Platform in the Pacific by providing high quality, safe, patient centered healthcare, sustaining and building medical capacity and capability, and ensuring a medically ready force in order to optimize the health, readiness, and resiliency of America's Fighting Forces and all we are honored to serve.

Department of Rehabilitation Services Mission: Provide patient-focused collaborative care grounded in quality, safety, wellness, population health and innovation to enable readiness and conserve the fighting strength for all.

The Vision of the Department of Rehabilitation Services is to provide world-class, interdisciplinary rehabilitative services, comprehensive pain management, and electro-diagnostic services to enhance military readiness and maximal return of function to our nation’s Service members, beneficiaries, and retirees.

Responsibilities

Major Duties:

+ Provide bio-psychosocial evaluations, targeted assessments, diagnostic impressions, and treatment plans for behavioral health patients and their families.

+ Make behavioral health diagnoses and provide individual and group therapy using various modalities such as brief problem-focused psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and client-centered therapy.

+ Supervise assigned professional and paraprofessional employees, military personnel, federal civilian employees, and provide technical oversight to contract employees assigned to the Clinic.

+ Plan and organize work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust long and short-term priorities, and prepare schedules for completion of work.

+ Function as the authoritative source of information in the specialty of Social Work and behavioral health, independently planning and carrying out assigned duties in accordance with psychological theories, techniques and professional standards.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts isin this document (https://portal.chra.army.mil/hr\_public?id=kb\_article&sysparm\_article=KB0016283) .

Basic Requirement for Supervisory Social Worker:

**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:

**Specialized Experience:** One year of specialized experience which includes conducting psychological assessments; formulating diagnostic or treatment recommendations; providing individual or group therapy; and reviewing or approving modalities or therapies for patients.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

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:** This position requires a current, active, valid, and unrestricted clinical license to practice Social Work independently offered by a U.S. State, District of Columbia, Commonwealth, territory, or jurisdiction.

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/ .

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**Location** _US-HI-Schofield Barracks_

**Job ID** _2025-8797_

**\# Positions** _2_

**Category** _Behavioral Health_

**Salary Range** _Competitive_

**Recruitment Bonus** _Negotiable_

**Relocation Assistance** _Negotiable_

**Student Loan Repayment** _Negotiable_