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Social Worker-BHIP
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 119 days ago
About the Role
The Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) at Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center provides team-based, Veteran-centered, recovery-oriented outpatient mental health care. Incumbent serves as a Mental Health Treatment Coordinator, ensuring coordination and continuity of care across Mental Health. Duties include biopsychosocial assessment, education, self-management support, monitoring care needs, and facilitating follow-up to promote proactive, personalized care.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but not limited to: Coordinates care including serving as an advocate on behalf of the Veterans on BHIP teams to ensure delivery of comprehensive, seamless MH service.
- →Actively participates in program planning and development, advising the BHIP team of shifting trends with care coordination needs and caseloads and identifying the need for making recommendations on program procedures and/or policy changes based upon work experiences.
- →Takes responsibility for improving professional skills, participating in planning, and executing specific staff development projects, attending seminars and institutes, and participating in training programs of other disciplines as requested.
- →Provide care coordination (including care management or case management) to Veterans and families, as needed, throughout the continuum of care.
- →This includes communication within and across care lines to facilitate continuity of care for Veterans.
- →Provide consultation/education to Veterans and families on VA resources (including self-management tools), community resources, Advance Directives and VA benefits Work Schedule: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- →Monday through Friday Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: PD679-70783
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: f10c3568-92dc-4982-bcc2-edd26ed2acf7
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