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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 55 days ago
About the Role
This position is responsible for assessment, planning, and provision of case management services to Veterans served by the PACT teams. Senior Social Worker coordinates a variety of activities including outreach, interdisciplinary activities, psychosocial assessments, treatment planning, consultation/education to Health Care staff and community based service providers, the collection and maintenance of statistical data, program planning evaluation and modification, and the supervision of students
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major Duties and Responsibilities of the position.
- →Interviews veterans and their family members/significant others to establish facts about the veteran'ssituation, presenting problems and their causes, and the impact of such problems on the veteran's functioning and health as part of a psychosocial assessment.
- →Is familiar with VA treatment and benefit programs.
- →Uses subjective and objective data in making clinical assessment of the veteran's needs.
- →Effectively uses professional skill, objectivity, and insight.
- →Uses advanced clinical training, and experience to identify viable treatment options and makes appropriate referrals for care.
- →Has the ability to serve veterans as inpatients or outpatients who often have severe crises, lack family or community supports, frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, or have significant deficits in coping skills and require continuing professional psychological support.
- →Independently evaluates the client's situation, including the veteran's reaction and ability to deal with it, and arrives at a reasoned conclusion.
- →Based on the psychosocial assessment, uses professional judgment and advanced practice skills to make a psychosocial diagnosis.
- →Assesses at-risk factors and develops a preliminary disposition plan involving the veteran and family or significant others.
- →Assesses serious and complicated cases involving psychiatric illness, catastrophic medical conditions, dementia and other high risk diagnoses.
- →Makes independent professional decisions and recommendations for treatment.
- →Consequences to the veteran may be serious, and the results are often unpredictable.
- →On an inpatient/outpatient basis, finds a suitable means of treatment to help veterans and/or significant others cope with stressful situations.
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: 0bb66091-d634-43d0-9e7e-54c1cd8969bc
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