Social Work, Board of
Purpose
The Board of Social Work shall regulate the practice of social work. In addition to the powers granted in § 54.1-2400, the Board shall have the following specific powers and duties: to cooperate with and maintain a close liaison with other professional boards and the community to ensure that regulatory systems stay abreast of community and professional needs, to conduct inspections to ensure that licensees conduct their practices in a competent manner and in conformance with the relevant regulations, to designate specialties within the profession, to license baccalaureate social workers, master's social workers, and clinical social workers to practice consistent with the requirements of the chapter and regulations of the Board and to register persons proposing to obtain supervised post-degree experience in the practice of social work required by the Board for licensure as a clinical social worker.
Term
Four years; no more than two full successive terms
Composition
The Board shall be composed of nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, seven of whom shall be licensed social workers who have been in active practice of social work for at least five years prior to appointment and two of whom shall be nonlegislative citizen members at large. The terms of the members of the Board shall be four years.
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