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Social Worker- Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (SUD)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 35 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 Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The incumbent is a social worker and serves in a full-time capacity within the Mental Health Service (MHS) at the John D Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit, including affiliated community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs).
- →The social worker will work as a member of a BHIP (Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program) SUD (Substance Use Disorder) team, providing care to those in this population who present with substance use.
- →Care will be expected to be delivered mainly in person and through VA Video Connect (VVC) to the Veteran's home or other safe location.
- →Patients will be presenting with a broad spectrum of mental health, emotional, and behavioral presentations and co-morbidities.
- →The major duties include, but are not limited to: Provide case management, psychoeducational services, and individual psychotherapy to their BHIP's patient panel who present with substance use.
- →May also provide some substance use focused assessment, psychoeducation, and brief therapy (individual and group) through Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) services.
- →Provides supportive and evidence based psychotherapies focused on the management and treatment of mild to moderate substance use; psychotherapies may be provided to patients and families, both in individual and group formats.
- →Provides same day substance use treatment needs assessments.
- →Performs routine substance use assessments as appropriate.
- →Provides case management interventions, at times at an advanced level, used in the treatment of Veterans with mood, anxiety, psychotic, trauma, substance use, and other mental health, emotional and behavioral disorders.
- →Provides scheduled and impromptu consultative services and psychoeducation regarding a wide range of substance use and other mental health concerns to patients and non-mental health staff regarding patients.
- →Provides patient, family, and caregiver education, both in individual and group formats.
- →Liaisons/advocates on behalf of the treatment team and/or Veteran/caregiver between settings of care, both internal and external to the VA.
- →Consults, collaborates, and coordinates with other staff who provide care to Veteran.
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 evaluation.
- ✓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.
- ✓Loss of Licensure or Certification.
- ✓Once licensed or certified, social workers must maintain a full, valid, and unrestricted independent license or certification to remain qualified for employment.
- ✓Loss of licensure or certification will result in removal from the GS-0185 social worker series and may result in termination of employment.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 76a1a8fc-e4cc-4f91-8d2d-0ae4a2767671
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