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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
About the Role
The Senior Social Worker facilitates and coordinates social work services that include intake, assessments, and evaluation of both inpatient and outpatient referrals of the Oncology Center of Excellence which is comprised of the Oncology, Hematology, and Radiation Therapy.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties for this position include, but are not limited to: Provide specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness, including adjustment to chronic or life threatening diagnoses and readjustment/re-integration to the community after completion of treatments.
- →Provide educational information to veterans and their families regarding cancer and treatment related issues.
- →Educates referral sources, community agencies, Veteran Service Organizations and other interested parties regarding the scope and management of this patient population.
- →Provide referrals to VA and community resources as needed by inpatient and outpatient hematology, oncology, and radiation therapy patients.
- →Facilitates treatment and discharge plans for hematology and oncology admitted patients.
- →Provide individual, group, and family psychotherapy or counseling and advanced level case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with oncology and hematology.
- →Provide consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
- →Provide or refer for couples/family interventions as indicated.
- →Providing sufficient clinical care for competency assessment, peer review, and credentialing and privileging processes.
- →Participation in a peer review process, as assigned.
- →Serve as a mentor, including new employee orientation, if privileged to perform and as assigned.
- →Providing LCSW supervision, if privileged to perform and as assigned.
- →Participating in data collection and practice standardization activities.
- →Providing information to Social Work Professional Practice Council regarding their needs as an individual practice member.
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: 6bbbd848-b0c6-4547-949e-d1809c1941f7
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