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Social Worker - Home Based Primary Care (HBPC)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
About the Role
The HBPC Social Worker is a member of a multidisciplinary team providing interdisciplinary primary care in the homes of Veterans with serious medical & psychosocial behavioral conditions for whom routine clinic based care is not effective or may not be possible. They provide intensive case management & caregiver support. They also collaborate with community partners & other professional agencies in care coordination & mobilization of tailored services for the Veteran or caregiver.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include: Performs comprehensive initial and follow-up assessments to meet the psychosocial needs of the patient and their support systems.
- →Independently uses evidence-based screening tools and assessments.
- →Develops the psychosocial plan of care, following advanced assessment and screening, to improve the patient's ability to achieve optimal psychosocial functioning.
- →Partners with the interdisciplinary team to enhance the Veteran's psychosocial treatment plan, experience, and progress toward treatment goals.
- →Responsible for crisis intervention and/or suicide prevention in home environments & functions without additional staff support or supervision in patient homes.
- →Performs rapid assessments and develops crisis management plans.
- →Assess for suicidality and self-harm, perform appropriate interventions, and create a safety plan for the Veteran.
- →Assist with admission to inpatient programs as needed.
- →Provides case management services to Veterans and facilitates integration of varied services for the treatment of complex medical, psychosocial, rehabilitative, behavioral, or palliative care needs.
- →Supports the Veteran and caregiver in coping with all aspects of chronic disease.
- →Assess and intervenes to address caregiver burden.
- →Completes documentation in accordance with applicable policy and standards.
- →Provides Veterans with evidence-based individual, family, and group psychotherapy.
- →Coordinates the delivery of psychosocial services and provides psychotherapy to assist Veterans in coping with complex and chronic illness, functional decline, changes in condition, adjustment, caregiver burden, and bereavement.
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/examination.
- ✓(Driver's License Requirement) 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: b9b6af7d-2c6c-410f-94fd-83222d3baf12
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