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Social Worker - Healthcare for Homeless Veterans (HCHV)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 12 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 Aleda E.
- →Lutz Medical Center in Saginaw, Michigan is recruiting for a Social Worker that serves in a full-time capacity within the Homeless Programs under the Social Work Services (SWS), which includes affiliated community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs).
- →This position is located at the Gaylord CBOC and incumbent will be expected to travel to/from community locations and Veterans homes in a 10 county radius from the CBOC, all within an hour drive of the duty station.
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to: Serving as the Healthcare of Homeless Veterans (HCHV) Social Worker, providing outreach, assessments, referrals, and case management services to homeless Veterans identified in the community.
- →The HCHV Social Worker is typically the first Homeless Programs clinician to make contact with the literally homeless and at-risk Veterans.
- →Serving as the entry point for Homeless services, and thus, provides VA a way to provide outreach, assist, and offer homeless Veterans an "open door" to the continuum of VA services.
- →Providing outreach services as a key and essential element of the HCHV program, designed to reduce homelessness among Veterans by directly contacting those who are of the most vulnerable and underserved and engaging them in supportive and rehabilitative services.
- →Working in the community to provide outreach services to homeless veterans at shelters, soup kitchens, and other agencies in the community serving the homeless.
- →Performing triaging/screening as well as comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments, integrating input from the Veteran, their caregiver/family, VA records, as well as brief assessments when appropriate.
- →Completing diagnostic tools including the Homeless Operations Management and Evaluation System (HOMES) assessment to ensure appropriate housing resources and additional treatment services are received.
- →Educating/linking Veterans and/or their caregivers about/with appropriate VA and community resources to address their needs, both in individual and group formats.
- →Providing crisis intervention services and referral to appropriate resources both within the VA and community.
- →Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm; additional tours of duty may be required based on needs of the agency Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive.
- →Contact VISN10HRCCOE@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance.
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.
- ✓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: 22af7997-a018-42d7-9ea0-9bcd2d400fa5
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