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Social Services Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 10 days ago
About the Role
This position is located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6), Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center (HVAMC), under the Social Work Service Line. This position is aligned with the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include: Developing and maintaining a therapeutic professional helping relationship with residents admitted to the Domiciliary.
- →Providing orientation to new residents by explaining Domiciliary policies and procedures, treatment expectations and goals, as well as ensuring that all domiciliary admission requirements are signed.
- →Interviewing each resident to assess skills-associated activities of daily living, leisure and work interests, personal hygiene, interpersonal communication, etc.
- →Maintains close contact with patients to ensure that their behavior and social adjustments are satisfactory.
- →Providing psycho-educational groups using a guidance model and applying past experience and knowledge of problems.
- →Demonstrates the ability to work with a variety of patients physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral problems using different techniques.
- →Organizes and facilitates small groups of patients for development of problem-solving skills for return to community living, independent living skills, reality orientation and current events.
- →Provides crisis intervention in situations of medical, psychiatric and/or behavioral nature.
- →Utilizing high degree of independent judgment, promptly assesses the situation and initiates appropriate action to secure medical care or police assistance.
- →Utilizes appropriate precautions in cases of injury, potential suicide, or infectious diseases.
- →Monitors compliance with treatment plan requirements as well as Domiciliary regulations.
- →Monitors compliance with sobriety requirements for abstinence from alcohol and drugs by performing breath checks and urine screens according to established procedures and documenting results..
- →Performs regular administrative functions, e.g. makes bed assignments, prepares, processes patients for clearance, and completes entries in communication log.
- →Work Schedule: Varying shifts 0800am-4:30pm, 3:30pm-12:00am, 12:00am-830am 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 You may be required to serve a probationary/trial period 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 dentification 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) There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
- ✓You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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