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Senior Social Worker (PCMHI)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 57 days ago
About the Role
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
What You'll Do
- →The Senior Social Worker (SSW) is assigned to the Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) Program for face to face or via telework within the Mental Health Service.
- →The goal of the PCMHI Program is to promote effective treatment of common mental health conditions in the primary care setting through a system of integrated care for physical and mental health while promoting patient engagement and adherence to care.
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Knowledge and ability to independently implement treatment modalities, identify level of functioning, and degree of impairment in occupational, social, academic, interpersonal, and family functioning.
- →Perform mental status exams.
- →Identify psychiatric manifestations of various medical conditions.
- →Possess knowledge of the criteria and state laws for legal commitment and involuntary hospitalization.
- →Ability to assess and intervene in cases of suspected abuse.
- →Provide counseling or psychotherapy for individuals, families, and groups.
- →Ability to use medical and mental health diagnoses and treatment procedures in working with diverse populations and circumstances to includes acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses/injuries, psychiatric, medical, and social problems.
- →Basic knowledge of common medications and their effects/side effects.
- →Ability to determine the presenting problem, as well as in-home factors impacting the problem, and determine barriers to treatment and/or follow through with recommended treatments.
- →Collaborate with community agencies to strive for developing more effective and efficient ways of delivering healthcare services for Veterans.
- →Establish a collaborative relationship with a wide range of health care providers including medical and psychiatric providers, to include physicians, medical social workers, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, and others.
- →Social work case management coordination with members of the treatment team to ensure a collaborative effort to meet the treatment goals for a Veteran.
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.
- ✓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: 1de0a1c2-3e5b-42f6-8cac-3d6c327c67e1
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