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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent is a Senior Social Worker whose duties and responsibilities relate to the case management of Veterans who are identified as "high risk" for suicide or suicide behaviors.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Licensed Clinical Social Worker: https://youtube.com/embed/U_xC25QsN0w Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties: The Senior Social Worker will conduct psychosocial assessments to determine needs of veterans and family members.
- →The incumbent evaluates the need for mental health services and makes appropriate referrals for individual, group marital and family treatment services.
- →The incumbent will conduct crisis management intervention to suicidal patients including conducting suicide risk assessments, referral to the appropriate level of care for continued mental health treatment, means reduction and the development of crisis management safety plans with patient input.
- →The incumbent will assist with coordinating the enhanced care which are required for a ninety-day period or longer for patients on the facility high risk for suicide flag.
- →The incumbent will participate in discharge planning with other disciplines and will be responsible for ensuring that discharge plans include the appropriate follow for patients that are flagged high risk for suicide in a manner that is timely and appropriate.
- →The incumbent will provide consultation/education to patient's treatment team and facility administration to determine initiation and maintenance of the patient record high risk for suicide flag.
- →The incumbent responds to referrals from the Veterans Crisis Line.
- →The incumbent will act as liaison between VA and community resources, to include marketing and public relation duties as needed.
- →The incumbent will address advance directives, guardianships, organ donations, and applications for home care and extended care services in accordance with the standards of their work area.
- →The incumbent will provide clinical case management to Veterans and families, as needed, throughout the continuum of care.
- →Provide support for the identification of Veterans at high risk for suicide and develops effective, evidence-based strategies for reducing the incidence of suicide.
- →The incumbent will provide a full range of social work services within commonly accepted standards of social work practice which include case work, individual, family and group counseling, discharge planning, case management and other services as appropriate.
- →The incumbent will coordinate treatment and communicate with the care lines to facilitate continuity of care for Veterans.
- →The incumbent will document social work interventions and activities in patient's clinical record utilizing Electronic Health Records and ensure appropriate hand off when transferring of patient care.
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: 55253fe7-fdb6-4bd4-8711-2a46274e4eab
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