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Senior Social Worker - Acute Medicine/Surgery
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
The Senior Social Worker is assigned to the acute medicine/surgery unit at the Gainesville VA Medical Center, located in Gainesville, Florida. The Senior Social Worker is responsible for providing assessment, discharge planning, and crisis intervention services to Veterans, their families/caregivers on the acute care medicine, surgery, neurology, intensive care inpatient units, emergency department and outpatient clinics.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Senior Social Worker is primarily responsible for providing psychosocial and mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning/execution, care management, case management, crisis intervention and evidence-based psychotherapy services to Veterans, their family members and caregivers in within Acute Medicine-Surgery units.
- →Duties for this position include but are not limited to: Receives referrals from a variety of sources to include triage, consults, phone calls, and warm hand-offs from internal/external stakeholders.
- →The Senior Social Worker is required to utilize available data sources to proactively identify patients for screening/triage, assessment, treatment planning, case management and care coordination.
- →Provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences and serves as a liaison to family members/caregivers.
- →The Senior Social Worker has working knowledge and experience in use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures.
- →This includes acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses/injuries, mental health conditions, and common medical terminology.
- →Independently conducts psychosocial and behavioral health/mental health assessments, can provide accurate diagnosis using most current version of the DSM.
- →Measures outcomes of interventions to improve treatment services.
- →The Senior Social Worker designs changes based on empirical/measurement-based care and other findings.
- →Utilizes clinical knowledge in the social work profession, and writes policies, standard operating procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the service delivery area as directed by Social Work Supervisor.
- →Proactively addresses advance directive education and facilitates completion and proper documentation and record scanning to ensure clear and accurate information regarding the Veterans' wishes are available in the electronic health record.
- →Serves as a subject matter expert for clinical social work practice/processes within the Acute Medicine-Surgery units.
- →Provides specialized consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients in the service delivery area, as well as role modeling effective social work practice skills.
- →Provides orientation and training for new clinical social work staff as directed by Social Work Supervisor.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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