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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 17 days ago
About the Role
What You'll Do
- →The Senior Social Worker must have advanced knowledge of the PACT team approach and the role of each health and allied health care team members as well as an understanding of the role of the social worker in the PACT model.
- →The Senior Social Worker independently provides clinical and case management services at an advanced practice level to veterans with a myriad of medical and mental health diagnosis as well as their family members.
- →These advanced interventions address biological, psychological, social, and environmental needs.
- →The Senior Social Worker serves as a team lead consultant to social workers in primary care and other interdisciplinary staff in planning services for Veterans who are in need of health care & psychosocial services.
- →Veterans treated come from an expansive, rural, resource-limited geographic area.
- →Their health care and psychosocial needs are complex and require a high degree of clinical oversight and creative problem solving.
- →They also provide support to Specialty Care Clinics to which they are assigned to support Specialists in determining the psychosocial determinants to successful interventions.
- →The role involves providing expert knowledge to inform workgroups, initiatives and facility-wide process implementation in which Social Workers provide care within a medical context.
- →Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
- →Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Ad Hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 000000 Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 2146706f-cb4d-4e19-b8f5-e83f7ba9d323
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