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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
About the Role
The New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System (NMVAHCS) is currently seeking a licensed social worker to join the Emergency Department to provide direct care to Veterans and coordinate follow-up. The role requires rotating shifts, including evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays, often as the sole provider, demanding independence and clinical expertise. Responsibilities include psychosocial assessments and discharge planning for inpatient Veterans.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include but not limited to: Responsible for providing emergency services to Veterans referred to the ED, acting as the primary contact for specialty services.
- →Conducts screening, discharge planning, and crisis intervention during off-hours and weekends, often as the sole Social Worker on duty.
- →Executes psychosocial assessments, treatment planning, short-term counseling, resource education, case management, and post-intervention follow-up for Veterans in crisis, primarily in the ED.
- →Provides consultation and education to staff and community providers, maintains data, participates in program evaluation, supervises students, and contributes to program development.
- →Works independently with advanced clinical skills, managing a high volume of patients, integrating complex psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within scope of practice.
- →Conducts psychosocial assessments and provides individual, family, and group therapy as part of interdisciplinary treatment.
- →Conducts staff training, community education, and resource coordination.
- →Completes initial assessments to facilitate timely services and follow-up care, including housing, substance detox, primary care linkage, and supportive counseling.
- →Reviews social work consults, manages care coordination, and assists with system redesign.
- →Performs psychosocial assessments, treatment planning, discharge coordination, counseling, and resource education.
- →Acts as a liaison to community resources, addresses advance directives and organ donation issues, and supervises less experienced staff as needed.
- →Maintains documentation in CPRS, complies with JCAHO and VA policies, and contributes to quality assurance.
- →Participates in committees and other duties as assigned to enhance veteran care.
- →Work Schedule: Sunday through Wednesday or Wednesday through Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
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: 8822957c-f97f-4fc6-8ac8-7c8cb30a3cdb
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