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Senior Social Worker -Women's Health Patient Aligned Care Team
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
This Women's Health senior social worker is assigned to PACT team & is located at the Community-Based Outpatient Clinic(CBOC) with responsibility to provide direct services for veterans & their families. This position coordinates outreach, interdisciplinary activities, psychosocial assessments, treatment planning, consultation/education to Health Care System staff, collection and maintenance of statistical data, program planning evaluation, modification, & supervision of students as assigned.
What You'll Do
- →Acts as a consultant on topics related to women's mental health to other team/staff members and take a lead clinical role in case consultation.
- →Identifies targeted training needs specifically around gender specific mental health needs not limited to; menopause, infertility, eating disorders, postpartum.
- →Collaborates with the Intimate Partner Violence Coordinator, Military Sexual Trauma Coordinator, Women's Health Medical Director and Women's Veteran Program Manager.
- →Effectively uses professional skill, objectivity, and insight.
- →Uses advanced clinical training, and experience to identify viable treatment options and makes appropriate referrals for care.
- →Serves veterans as inpatients or outpatients who often have severe crises, lack family or community support, frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, or have significant deficits in coping skills and require continuing professional psychological support.
- →Independently evaluates the client's situation, including the veteran's reaction and ability to deal with it, and arrives at a reasoned conclusion.
- →Assesses serious and complicated cases involving psychiatric illness, catastrophic medical conditions, dementia and other high-risk diagnoses.
- →On an inpatient/outpatient basis, finds a suitable means of treatment to help veterans and/or significant others cope with stressful situations Develops psychosocial treatment plans in coordination with interdisciplinary team members, including goals for treatment.
- →Provides independent consultation and makes recommendations to interdisciplinary team on course of treatment.
- →Participates in professional peer review, case conferences, or other organized means.
- →Provides clinical services to veterans and family members/significant others in support of the veteran's treatment.
- →Provides individual and group counseling services, including psychotherapy in some settings.
- →PACT services include assisting Veterans with Digital Divide/Telehealth issues.
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: b43a02d9-8ac3-4000-9864-ca64c3e72f30
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