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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
The Community Nursing Home Program Senior Social worker is part of an engaged interdisciplinary team that provides oversight of Veterans residing in contracted community nursing homes. Assessments are completed during required routine visits with Veterans, providing an opportunity to determine and correct unmet clinical needs and ensure Veteran and family satisfaction with the care provided. The social worker also participates in quality oversight, approvals of contracts for eligible veterans.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Licensed Clinical Social Worker: https://youtube.com/embed/U_xC25QsN0w Major duties include, but are not limited to the following: Performs specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness.
- →Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of Veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
- →Performs case finding functions and outreach, identifying and screening patients for psychosocial needs.
- →Develops treatment plans in collaboration with the Veteran/family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team.
- →Possess the knowledge and ability to independently implement treatment modalities, provide counseling or psychotherapy for individuals, families and groups.
- →Coordinates community-based services, including information and referral for additional services from other VA programs, other government programs and community agency programs.
- →Provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences and serves as liaison to family members.
- →Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in their area of practice, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services.
- →Offers consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in their area of expertise, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
- →Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff and students in their special area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or specialty certifications.
- →Performs other related duties as assigned.
- →Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, Four different shifts which includes 7:00am to 5:30pm.
- →Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized.
- →Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized.
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 dentification 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: 82b7dfc9-2120-4d33-9b27-27261a354963
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