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Senior Social Worker-Multi Program Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
About the Role
This job is for a Multi-Program Social Worker- MST/Trauma/Family Services who independently performs duties and responsibilities by providing a high level of professional social work services to clients. This position within the Mental Health Special Services at VHMC Cincinnati. The social worker exercises mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of professional skills and techniques in working with clients who present with complicated cases.
What You'll Do
- →Duties and responsibilities include but not limited to: Conducts assessments with focus on the identified referral need, triages patient needs appropriately and develops treatment plan based on assessment.
- →These assessments may include biopsychosocial assessments, cognitive and behavioral assessment, brief crisis assessment, and brief diagnostic assessments.
- →Offers consultation to interdisciplinary 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.
- →Collaborates with interdisciplinary treatment team, the Veteran, family, and significant others.
- →Including collateral assignments working collaboratively within medical/surgical/in-patient and mental health settings as assigned.
- →Develops and consults on the treatment plan with interdisciplinary teams, setting achievable treatment goals with the Veteran/family and providing behavioral health care utilizing advanced clinical judgment to determine the appropriate treatment intervention for the Veteran and their loved ones.
- →Promotes Whole health, preventing illness, aiding with adaptive coping.
- →Treatments include evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health/behavioral health conditions as indicated.
- →Psychotherapeutic interventions are based on episodes of care model.
- →Provides clinical interventions independently and in various VA and community settings.
- →Provides services after hours and on weekends on a flexible schedule.
- →Establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with Veterans and their loved ones through engagement, rapport building, instilling hope, and offering support.
- →Utilizes advanced clinical training, insight, and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options.
- →Provides explanation of different treatment options/levels of care available and why one treatment option/level of care may be more beneficial to the Veteran and their loved ones than another.
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 dentification 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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 4170a34b-5c16-41b5-8436-c4c2586ec572
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