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Senior Social Worker - HUD-VASH
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 6 days ago
About the Role
The HUD-VASH Senior Social Worker incumbent functions as an independent social work provider, providing clinical interventions to homeless Veterans to help them in obtaining and maintaining permanent housing.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Senior Social Worker has experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment.
- →At least two years should be in an area of specialized social work practice.
- →The incumbent is licensed or certified by a state area of specialized social work practice.
- →The incumbent is licensed or certified by a state at the advanced practice level which included an ASWB advanced generalist or clinical examination, unless they are grandfathered by the state in which they are licensed to practice at the advance practice level.
- →The Senior Social Worker may have certification or other post masters training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship or equivalent supervised professional experience in a specialty.
- →The incumbent functions as an independent social work provider.
- →Duties may include but are not limited to: Interviews Clients and Conducts Psychosocial Assessments Interviews Veterans to establish facts about the Veteran's situation, presenting problems and the impact of such problems on the Veteran's functioning and health.
- →Interprets and explains VA's treatment and benefit programs.
- →Reviews all referral data from social workers, case managers, managed care staff and discharge planners to identify patients' needs.
- →Makes a clinical assessment identifying the Veteran's needs and strengths.
- →Has the ability to serve Veterans who may be experiencing severe crises, lack family or an adequate community support, frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, or have significant deficits in coping skills and require continuing professional psychosocial support.
- →Independently evaluates the Veteran's situation, including the Veteran's reaction and ability to deal with it, and arrives at a reasonable conclusion.
- →Based on psychosocial assessment, professional judgment and advanced practice skills to make psychosocial diagnoses.
- →Assesses at-risk factors and develops a preliminary disposition plan involving the Veteran and family or significant others.
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: 79bb54be-0677-4317-bddb-37ea62a9854f
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