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Senior Social Worker (Emergency Department/Urgent Care Center)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent is a Senior Social Worker assigned to the Urgent Care Center with responsibilities to provide direct social work services for adult Veterans and their families who present for services. The incumbent may also be assigned to other areas of Social Work Service which are within the incumbent's scope of practice.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU VA Careers - Licensed Clinical Social Worker: https://youtube.com/embed/U_xC25QsN0w Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Incumbent must have knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures.
- →This includes acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses/injuries; common medications and their effects/side effects; and medical terminology.
- →Knowledge of community resources, how to make appropriate referrals to community and other governmental agencies for services and ability to coordinate services.
- →The incumbent plans, coordinates and carries out the successive steps in fact-finding and analysis of issues in accordance with accepted polices and applicable precedents.
- →Collaborates with discipline supervisors including psychiatry, psychology, social work, primary care, and nursing by providing input in hiring, performance reviews, incentives, and discipline.
- →Collaborates with clerical supervisors for similar input.
- →Offers consultation to colleagues, students, and peers on the bio-psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
- →Demonstrates the ability to teach, coach, and mentor staff, students in the ED, specialty care, and care coordination areas of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or specialty certifications.
- →Incumbent will demonstrate exceptional maturity and work well with all team members in the ED, Acute Care, Medicine, community partners, and other services needed to meet the needs of the patient and family members.
- →Senior Social worker is experienced in making rapid assessments and developing crisis management plans.
- →Senior Social worker has access to multiple resource directories to meet the demands of a crisis.
- →In the event of a medical or psychiatric emergency, staff will follow the established protocol of the program.
- →The incumbent collaborates with interdisciplinary teams in the provision of comprehensive health care services to Veterans receiving care and ensures equity of access, service, and benefits to this population.
- →Senior Social Worker will process alleged abuse cases according to policy.
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
Job ID: 41a29aa7-c72b-442a-9324-c5de23a2d641
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