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Senior Social Worker - Community Nursing Home / Adult Day Health Care Programs (CNH/CADHC)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This Community Nursing Home / Adult Day Health Care Programs (CNH/CADHC) Senior Social Worker delivers advanced social work services to Veterans in CNH/CADHC facilities. Responsibilities involve discharge planning, case management, advocacy, psychosocial education, and coordination with VA and community providers to meet the needs of Veteran, caregivers, and contracted facilities. The Senior Social Worker serves a patient population with highly complex health and mental health needs.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties may include but are not limited to: Coordinates care with other healthcare professionals, including but not limited to physician, psychiatrist, nurse, chaplain, pharmacist, and other social workers.
- →Completes clinical reminders as appropriate.
- →Incumbent completes suicide risk screens C-SSRS, CSRE, and Safety Plans, completing and documenting assessments within the timelines and guidelines of the VANTHCS Suicide Prevention SOP as required.
- →The incumbent independently identifies high-risk patients and provides crisis intervention services.
- →Assist veterans in coping with acute illness, chronic illness, combat stress, residuals of traumatic brain injury (TBI), community adjustment, addictions, and other health and mental health problems.
- →Reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment, identifying needs and strengths.
- →Effectively uses professional skill, objectivity, and insight.
- →Uses advanced clinical training, and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options.
- →Assesses high risk factors, acuity and need for services.
- →It is the responsibility of every social worker doing an intake, a social assessment, a psychosocial diagnosis, or any information-gathering process with a patient to be especially attentive to risk factors, and to verbally and/or in writing call attention to treatment staff of such factors and ensure they are addressed.
- →Social workers will also educate other clinical personnel to be sensitive and responsive to risk factors, as necessary.
- →Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
- →Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
- →Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Ad-Hoc available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓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.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 76b17766-7958-481e-948a-c72151768eca
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