Family Advocacy Officer (FAO), 61 MDS

About the role

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What you will do

• The United States Space Force (USSF) at Los Angeles AFB, El Segundo, CA is searching for a Family Advocacy Officer (FAO) to support 61 MDS (NH-0185-03, GS-12/13 equivalent).
• Description: At Space Base Delta 3, the 61st Medical Squadron provides comprehensive medical and psychological support to the guardians, airmen, military families, and civilian personnel driving the United States Space Force and Department of the Air Force mission.
• As the Family Advocacy Officer (FAO), you will serve as the principal advisor, clinical director, and strategic leader of the installation's Family Advocacy Program (FAP).
• You will steer prevention, clinical intervention, multidisciplinary team leadership, and executive community outreach across one of the nation's most dynamic defense installations.
• Key Duties: - Drive total program effectiveness, resource integration, and compliance with Department of Defense, Air Force, and federal statutory standards. - Represent the Family Advocacy Program directly to SBD 3 Wing Leadership, Medical Group Commanders, Squadron Leadership, and Headquarters Air Force Behavioral Health directors. - Cultivate enduring partnerships with base agencies (Chapel, Military & Family Readiness, Security Forces, OSI, Legal), DoD behavioral health programs, and local civilian healthcare and child/family welfare systems in Southern California. - Directly supervise a multidisciplinary staff consisting of licensed social workers, registered nurses (such as the New Parent Support Program), and clinical support specialists. - Provide administrative direction, clinical case consultation, performance evaluations, professional development plans, and guidance on operational directives. - Carry professional responsibility for complex cases spanning the full continuum of care-from primary prevention and crisis mitigation to intensive outpatient psychotherapy and closure.
• Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 1.
• Professional knowledge of social work practices, principles, and theories to carry full professional responsibility for cases involving a wide range of psychosocial and environmental problems.
• Knowledge of the organization, management, and administration of child and family welfare services to perform program planning and develop and maintain public understanding and sound working relationships with local agencies and community agencies.
• Knowledge of a wide array of problems and disorders of children and families and the varied resources needed to treat them.
• Ability to evaluate and determine best application of multiple complex helping systems, various professions, and organizations; how they affect child and family welfare; and the multiple uses of such systems, professions, and organizations to deliver services.
• Knowledge of safety and security regulations, practices, and procedures.
• Ability to supervise, plan, organize and direct the functions and staff of military and civilian personnel.

How you will be evaluated

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled.

Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here: Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted.

If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Documents you must provide

• You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts.
• You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable.
• Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume.
• If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy.
• Your resume must provide: Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information: Job title Detailed duties and accomplishments Employer's name and address Supervisor's name and phone number Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.) Hours per week Salary, if applicable Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

What to expect next

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Additional information

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Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more. For more information, click here.