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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
The Senior Social Worker will be responsible to assist Veterans with care coordination and discharging from inpatient Non-VA care facilities and returning to VA Care. The incumbent provides care coordination and case management to link patients to VA and Non-VA Medical and Behavioral Health Care services.
What You'll Do
- →Able to coordinate community-based services as needed post hospitalization.
- →Independently identifies high-risk patients and provides clinically appropriate case management and care coordination services.
- →Provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint leading to hospitalization, as well as other psychosocial stressors identified.
- →Serves as a liaison between both VA and Non-VA Care health care professionals, as well as Veteran and caregivers.
- →Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with community hospital case management peers.
- →Incumbent is able to independently work with patients and families who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical and social problems.
- →Independently provides consultation services to other staff regarding the psychosocial needs of Veterans and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and adherence to treatment plans.
- →Ability to evaluate the incumbent's own practice through professional peer review, case conferences and other organizational means.
- →Able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, with people from varied backgrounds.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
- →When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
- →Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
- →Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
- →Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Ad Hoc per agency policy Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
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: 899941e6-1c7a-4b10-bba9-109e3bf8d21c
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