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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
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 Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Suicide Prevention mission is to identify, engage, and track those veterans who are at high risk for suicide.
- →The Suicide Prevention Program (SPP) utilizes a Public Health approach to suicide by increasing public awareness by educating and informing communty partnerships.
- →Additionally, the SPP collects data as well as trending data about suicide attempts and death by suicides.
- →The Suicide Prevention Coordinator (SPC) facilitates the implementation of suicide prevention strategies at the local level through education, monitoring, and case management activites.
- →The SPC functions as a coordinator of care of veterans at suicide risk and an advisor to facility leadership, program managers and staff concerning suicide prevention strategies for individual patients, for the facility and the veteran community as a whole.
- →Duties include but are not limited to: The SPC collaborates with mental health providers, acts as an advisor to the ACOS, Mental Health Service, facility leadership, program managers, and staff in the care of veterans at risk for suicide.
- →The SPC acts as part of the Suicide Prevention team to meet local and national goals of the Suicide Prevention Program.
- →This is accomplished through: A.
- →Brief Screening and Psychotherapy Intervention Provides psychosocial assessments and evaluation of environmental needs exacerbating the psychiatric problem.
- →Performs crisis intervention, safety planning, and case management as well as conducting suicide prevention psychoeducational groups.
- →Triages Veteran's Crisis Line consults from the Sales Force system in a timely manner to assure timely access to care and follow-up for Veterans in crisis.
- →Requires screening, assessment, crisis intervention, and evaluation skills.
- →Case Management Assessing patients at regular intervals by means of chart reviews and in collaboration with providers on continued need for suicide prevention services.
- →Each SPC will maintain a caseload of high risk flagged Veterans and provide brief case management support in connecting Veterans to access to care as needed.
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: 3a65213a-4433-4810-acc7-ddfc98a0c4f8
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