Internship Program

The MSW focus internship on the VA St. Louis Health Care System is accredited by the Council on Higher Education and the U.S. Department of Education.  To be thought of, college students should show enrollment in a MSW program from an accredited college by the Council on Social Work Education and of their focus practicum. 

Internships require the complete educational yr of Fall-Spring. The intern schedules throughout these semesters usually require two and a half normal enterprise days for a 20-hr week. Available excursions will likely be decided by Field Placement and Field Instructor. The schedule relies upon this system to which the intern is assigned. Weekend or night hours aren’t out there at present. Intern assignments are made by the VA employees and out there Field Instructors for that educational yr. Treatment settings and packages which might be out there for internships fluctuate from yr to yr. Some potential choices are inpatient and outpatient internships in each medical and psychological well being some in hospital and others are in group clinics.  Our medical internships span acute care, main care, nephrology, inpatient and outpatient hospice/palliative care and our expert rehabilitation program.  Mental well being internships choices embody acute inpatient, substance use, domiciliary therapy of substance use and homelessness, psychological well being remedy and case administration in our basic outpatient and trauma restoration packages, suicide prevention, and homeless packages. We even have the potential for group and jail outreach internships. 

Those chosen to intern with VA Social Work Service might want to full a number of further necessities, a couple of of that are: further company paperwork, present fingerprints to permit VA to conduct background checks, a bodily, and procure VA pc clearance and company identification. This checklist isn’t all inclusive, and a number of other of those and different steps have to be met in prescribed sequential order. This necessitates that the possible intern may have some availability to come back to the VA for a number of hours on a couple of appointment day throughout the summer time months.

Application Process

Eligibility Requirements

Read Requirements- https://www.va.gov/oaa/hpt-eligibility.asp

The utility interval for tutorial yr Fall 2023-Spring 2024 internships is January 17, 2023, by way of March 1, 2023.

Students might submit the applying supplies to the VA Social Work workplace by way of mail to 915 North Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63106, or e-mail to the division administrative officer Amelia Thomas @ amelia.thomas2@va.gov. The VA Social Work workplace will be reached at 314-289-6391.

Applications will likely be accepted solely throughout this utility interval. The required utility paperwork embody program utility, faculty transcripts, graduate college or skilled writing pattern [not to exceed 1-2 pages], and a letter of analysis from a School of Social Work graduate college professor.

Application supplies will likely be reviewed, and candidates will likely be contacted by March 3, 2023, and knowledgeable if they’ve been chosen for an interview. Those candidates chosen for consideration may have an interview or a collection of interviews, that are tentatively scheduled for March 9, 2023, and March 10, 2023. The candidates will likely be knowledgeable by March 17, 2023 if they’re accepted for an internship after a second interview with the Field Instructor assigned. These dates are projected at the moment and topic to alter, although will likely be inside this timeframe.

Applicants should submit all required supplies and paperwork and meet mandatory timelines. If at any time throughout the course of the applicant is not in a position to meet the necessities, they could be withdrawn from consideration.

Prospective interns may also should be out there for 3 days of company and division orientation, which is anticipated the primary or third week in August and run Monday by way of Wednesday. The dates will likely be introduced in Spring 2023.

Timeline:

•    Applications due: 3/1/23
•    Students notified of interview:  3/3/23
•   Student interviews: 3/9/23
•  Student notified of provide/denial after second interview with area teacher assigned: 3/17/23
•  Pre-employment guidelines (fingerprints, physicals, paperwork): May-Aug 2023
•  Orientation 1st or third week of August
•  Start date and schedule Determined along with your VA Field Instructor 

Additional Information

Historically, there have been modest stipends out there for college kids, but they’re restricted. The approval of those funds happens yearly on the nationwide stage and that call will not be made till after interns are accepted or have begun their internship. This potential profit will likely be reviewed with these college students who’re accepted for internship. It is really helpful that scholar candidates don’t base their resolution to use to VA St. Louis Health Care System for Social Work Internship on this potential profit.

VA St. Louis Health Care System Social Work Service welcomes candidates with disabilities and doesn’t discriminate on any grounds.