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Social Worker - Community Nursing Home Program (CNH)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Social Worker - Community Nursing Home Program (CNH) responsibilities include the management, coordination and provision of social work services to veteran and their families in community settings and participates in regular multidisciplinary inspections of CNH faculties to ensure that veterans placed in these settings are receiving appropriate psychosocial services. The incumbent provides comprehensive psychosocial and case management services to veterans placed in community nursing homes.
What You'll Do
- →Duties and Responsibilities include: Establishes and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with veterans in the CNH program, as well as, with the facility staff and veteran's families.
- →Completes independently a thorough psychosocial assessments to determine the psychosocial functioning and needs of Veterans and/or their families.
- →Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team by collaborating with treatment team members in the mental health clinic, primary care clinic, and inpatient units when veterans are readmitted to the medical center for stabilization of psychiatric or medical conditions.
- →Possess a working knowledge and experience in use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures, including acute, chronic and traumatic illnesses, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology.
- →Facilitates discharge planning through collaboration with veterans and their families, as well as, facility staff and interdisciplinary treatment team members when veterans in the CNH Program are identified as needing alternative placement or when veterans request return to independent community living.
- →Provides consultation and education to Veterans, their families, and residential care sponsors regarding community resources, VA benefits and specialty programs, and advance directives.
- →Provides consultation to other treatment team and staff members as well as residential care sponsors regarding psychosocial needs of Veterans and/or their families and the impact of the identified psychosocial problems on the Veteran's health care planning, compliance with treatment, discharge planning, and ongoing adjustment to the residential care setting.
- →Possess and demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing with people from varied backgrounds.
- →Serves on committees, work groups, and task forces at the facility as deemed appropriate by the Nurse Manager of the office of community care and Chief of Social Work Services.
- →Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of community resources, how to make appropriate referrals to community and other governmental agencies for services, and ability to coordinate services.
- →Ability to independently assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of patients and their family members and to formulate and implement a treatment plan, identifying the patient's problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills and assistance needed, in collaboration with the patient, family and interdisciplinary treatment team.
- →Ability to independently conduct psychosocial assessments and provide psychosocial treatment to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational and other diversified backgrounds.
- →Knowledge and experience in the use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities and treatment procedures.
- →Knowledge of psychosocial treatment and ability to independently implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical and social problems to achieve treatment goals.
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.
- ✓An active Driver's License is required.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: a880ea02-560c-4720-8fc0-ae16f63f91a2
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