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Senior Social Worker - Emergency Department
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
Sr. Social Worker (Emergency Dept [ED]) independently uses educational training, clinical experience, VA policies & Joint Commission standards to provide services to Veterans referred from the ED, such as, substance abuse referrals, discharge planning, psychosocial assessments, treatment planning, short-term solution focused counseling for those who may be in crisis, education & referral for resources & benefits, brief case management & post-intervention follow-up.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties: Performs specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness.
- →Incumbent incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of Veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
- →Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in specialty areas, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services.
- →Incumbent demonstrates the ability to design changes based on empirical findings.
- →Makes rapid assessments and develops crisis management plans for admission to Mental Health inpatient/outpatient programs.
- →Access to multiple resource directories in addition to previously developed resources to meet the demands of a crisis.
- →In the event of a medical or psychiatric emergency, incumbent will follow the protocol of the VA Medical Center.
- →The ED Social Worker will complete suicide risk screening and assessments.
- →This may include assessment of suicidal/homicidal thoughts/behaviors, completion of a suicide safety plan, or consultation with ED mental health providers.
- →In collaboration with Mental Health, completes the assessment of Veterans that are determined to be intermediate or high acute risk on the Comprehensive Suicide Risk Evaluation (CSRE) and are safe to be discharged home for the Safety Planning in the Emergency Department (SPED) measure.
- →The documentation that must be completed includes the CSRE and Suicide Prevention Safety Plan note templates in CPRS.
- →Assessment and documentation must be completed on all Veterans admitted to the medicine/surgery units or transferred to a community psychiatric hospital.
- →Provides subject matter consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in the specialty area, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
- →Incumbent teaches and mentors staff and students in the specialty area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure.
Requirements
- ✓NOTE: Prior to accepting a final employment offer, all selected applicants will be required to sign a Memorandum of Understanding regarding deployment responsibilities You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓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).
- ✓Must be able to meet physical demands which include strenuous physical activity to include carrying persons and equipment, walking long distances over difficult terrain, running, climbing, working long hours in primitive or arduous conditions, long periods of standing, and bending and stooping.
- ✓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-year 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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 10db0e2c-16d5-4852-bb6b-5ed5337911c6
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