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Senior Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 16 days ago
About the Role
The Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS) is currently seeking a licensed social worker to support the Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) Program and the Primary Care Aligned Care Team (PACT). This position requires experience in providing services to Veterans of all ages, including individuals who are terminally ill, chronically ill or injured, visually impaired, disabled, or elderly.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Senior Social Worker provides expert consultation and advanced psychosocial guidance for complex Veteran cases, mentoring entry-level staff and overseeing graduate training.
- →They support performance improvement, VA metrics, and program development, modifying services based on data and Veteran feedback.
- →Coverage may be required during staff absences, with day-to-day direction from program leadership and supervision from Social Work Service.
- →The role involves frequent home visits (2-3 daily) using government vehicles and building relationships across VA and community partners.
- →Key duties include: Conducting thorough psychosocial assessments, including home visits, to inform treatment plans.
- →Providing independent diagnoses, evidence-based interventions, and outcome evaluations; leading or participating in interdisciplinary care planning.
- →Coordinating VA and community services, educating Veterans and families on benefits, advance directives, and resources.
- →Prioritizing high-risk patients, delivering case management, crisis intervention, and family support.
- →Establishing therapeutic relationships; offering individual, family, group therapy using advanced modalities.
- →Completing caregiver assessments, providing counseling, respite, and resource support.
- →Performing rapid crisis assessments, developing management or placement plans.
- →Understanding laws on vulnerable adults, emergency mental health, and abuse, serving as liaison to community agencies.
- →Consulting with staff on psychosocial factors affecting treatment adherence; participating in peer reviews and case conferences.
- →Documenting all interactions accurately in the Electronic Health Record; ensuring confidentiality and contributing to documentation standards.
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: ef2ea960-d469-4be1-be8c-514cef84cbbb
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