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Social Worker (Caregiver Support Program Coordinator)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position is responsible for providing services to Veterans referred to the units of ICU, Surgery, Emergency Department, Inpatient Units and Primary Care Units. This professional Social Worker is responsible for providing a variety of services for Veterans referred to the various units mentioned above including psychosocial assessments, treatment planning, short-term, solution focused counseling with individuals and families who may be in crisis.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU The incumbent will conduct psychosocial assessments to determine the needs of veterans and family members.
- →The incumbent is an active participant in the treatment planning process with other disciplines.
- →The incumbent will participate in discharge planning with other disciplines and will be responsible for ensuring that discharge plans are executed in a manner that is timely and appropriate.
- →The incumbent will provide individual, family and group counseling as appropriate.
- →The incumbent will provide consultation/education to veterans and families on community resources, advance directives and VA benefits.
- →The incumbent will act as a consultant to other team/staff members.
- →The incumbent will provide consultation/education to medical residents on social work practice and VA policy and procedure.
- →The incumbent will act as liaison between VA and community resources, to include marketing and public relation duties as needed.
- →The incumbent will provide case management to veterans and families, as needed, throughout the continuum of care.
- →The incumbent will provide a full range of social work services within commonly accepted standards of social work practice which includes case work, individual, family and group counseling, discharge planning, case management and other services as appropriate.
- →The incumbent will address Advance Directives and Organ Donation in accordance with the standards of their work area.
- →The incumbent will provide wellness/prevention education and facilitate Patient/family support groups as appropriate.
- →The incumbent will, as appropriate, supervise the practice of social work students, or a less experienced social worker.
- →The incumbent will coordinate treatment and communicate with the care lines to facilitate continuity of care for veterans.
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: 51414768-19c8-443d-889f-14ded000bd9c
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