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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 76 days ago
About the Role
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU VA Careers - Licensed Clinical Social Worker: https://youtube.com/embed/U_xC25QsN0w Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Suicide Prevention Senior Social Worker serves to facilitate the implementation of suicide prevention strategies at the local level through education, monitoring, and coordination activities.
- →The SPC is responsible for coordinating the care for Veterans who are at a heightened risk for suicide and tracks those Veterans who have attempted suicide.
- →Tracking all suicide attempts and patients with serious suicide ideation through the "Suicide Behavior Report".
- →Provides comprehensive case management by ensuring all Veterans identified as high risk for suicide receive follow up mental health care as required, coordinating services as needed.
- →Provides crisis intervention, suicide risk assessments, and safety plans for Veterans via phone and in person.
- →Coordinating with mental health staff and primary care staff through ongoing communication to ensure that necessary components in the veteran's care plan are addressed to include a suicide risk assessment and safety plan.
- →Completes behavioral health autopsies as required by the National Suicide Prevention Program.
- →Following completed suicides, provides postvention services to both surviving family members and VA staff involved in the affected Veteran's care.
- →Participation and provision of expertise on individual root cause analysis teams.
- →Assuring that all Veterans on the facility tracking list are being followed closely by the appropriate provider on a regular basis as determined by the coordinator and the provider.
- →Tracking any no-show appointments by these Veterans and following up with him or her as soon as possible to reschedule the appointment.
- →Initiating emergency interventions as appropriate to the situation, including but not limited to, contacting the Veteran's identified emergency contact and/or 911 if the safety of a Veteran is unable to be established, or it is determined that the Veteran is at imminent risk for self-harm.
- →Disseminating, organizing, and where possible, conducting evidence-based and promising/emerging interventions.
- →Maintaining awareness of suicide treatment options and making recommendations to the Veteran's provider when new options become available.
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: 8c661065-d87d-4d6f-81fb-561cb2bd6640
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