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Senior Social Worker-Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 59 days ago
About the Role
This Senior Social Worker will serve as a psychotherapist on a Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) team. The BHIP therapist will foster recovery-oriented, patient-centered, trauma-informed, and evidence-based, mental health care for Veterans assigned to the BHIP team. As a BHIP therapist, the primary responsibility is provision of evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) for Veterans with severe and/or complex mental health concerns who are assigned to the BHIP team.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties for this position include, but are not limited to: Provide individual and group evidence-based treatment and psychoeducation for Veterans with a wide range of mental and behavioral health conditions.
- →Provide crisis intervention and stabilization, which may include facilitating connections to higher levels of care (e.g., emergency department) for patient safety.
- →Provide psychological assessment and diagnostic services, including to determine if a referral for neuropsychological evaluation is needed.
- →Conduct all three components of measurement based care: collect patient reported outcome measures, share results with Veterans, and act on the basis of those findings.
- →Provide motivational enhancement to prepare Veterans to participate in clinically appropriate care.
- →Provide or refer for couples/family interventions as indicated.
- →Provide consultation to staff within and outside of the mental health service line to assist in diagnosis and treatment of their patients.
- →Use telemental health and face to face modalities to provide psychological services to Veterans.
- →Promote communication between team members, patients, and their families to facilitate recovery-oriented treatment.
- →Actively participate in BHIP team huddles and through electronic communication (e.g., TEAMs chat).
- →Engage in implementation of the national BHIP Collaborative Care Model, including following standard operating procedures and contributing to continuous improvement efforts in the BHIP.
- →Complete timely documentation as required by the Medical Center Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm.
- →Subject to change based on the needs of the facility.
- →Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized.
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.
- ✓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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