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Senior Social Worker (HUD/VASH)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 76 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in Social Work Service of the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System. The duties and responsibilities are carried throughout the HealthCare System including all clinical and other patient care areas involved with the services.
What You'll Do
- →The Senior Social Worker is assigned to the Housing and Urban Development VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) Program.
- →HUD-VASH is an intensive case management program for chronically homeless veterans aimed at providing psychosocial services to Veterans while preparing for and residing in stable housing through HUD's Housing Choice Voucher Program.
- →The Senior Social Worker is responsible for collaborating closely with Veterans and Veteran families experiencing homelessness and VA and non-VA stakeholders to work towards obtaining and sustaining permanent housing.
- →The Senior Social Worker performs program responsibilities including but not limited to: in home visits, telephone contacts, virtual consultations, clinical assessments, annual evaluations, treatment planning, and ongoing clinical case management services for Veterans in the program.
- →The role involves delivering direct clinical care, psychotherapy, evidence-based services, and interventions for complex Veteran cases.
- →The Senior Social worker also is responsible for clinical supervision and consultative support for frontline staff.
- →Duties for the position may include but are not limited to: Perform specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness.
- →Incorporate 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 in the HUD VASH program.
- →Provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with polytrauma injuries, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, visual impairment, post-traumatic stress disorder, addictions, and other serious disorders.
- →Offer consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
- →Perform work related to the review, monitoring, analysis, planning and assessment of various programs.
- →Responsible for key project activities related to the planning, development, and implementation of the project component.
- →Provide in-service training to Social Work Service staff, to staff from other disciplines, and to students and volunteers as assigned.
- →Performs other related duties as assigned.
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: 8ab33d8f-ac31-4002-89c4-438888d02ef5
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