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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 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
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU VA Careers - Licensed Clinical Social Worker: https://youtube.com/embed/U_xC25QsN0w Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional 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.
- →Uses advanced clinical training, insight, and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options.
- →Assesses high risk factors, acuity, to include suicidal and homicidal ideations and need for VHA services and/or community services.
- →Independently evaluates the Veteran's situation, including the Veteran's reaction and ability to deal with it, and arrives at a reasoned 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.
- →Performs an insightful assessment of serious and complicated cases including illnesses involving psychiatric, medical conditions, dementia, and other high-risk diagnoses.
- →Assures the transfer of health care, both inpatient and outpatient to the appropriate VHA and community resources.
- →When provision of direct services is indicated develops psychosocial treatment plans in coordination with other social workers, case manager, managed care staff and discharge planners.
- →Arrives at a reasoned conclusion as to the preferred course of agency action.
- →Provides independent consultation and makes recommendations to interdisciplinary team on course of treatment.
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 evaluation/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: 0f2fcf75-9b3f-4809-9300-883504fd7af3
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