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Social Worker-Inpatient Medical/Surgical
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
Provides social work services to the inpatient medical/surgical and MICU units. Responsible for management, coordination, and provision of social work services to Veterans and their families. Services include the provision of direct patient services, collaboration/consultation with the Interdisciplinary Treatment Team, case management, supportive counseling, advocacy, discharge planning, and coordination of other VA or community service providers and/or agencies as needed by the Veteran.
What You'll Do
- →Duties may include but are not limited to: Use a high level of skill in assessing and treating the complicated psychosocial problems of Veterans.
- →Responsibilities include the assessment of psychosocial problems often at a time when the Veteran is experiencing or in crisis.
- →Completes thorough psychosocial assessments to determine the presenting problem, in-home factors impacting the problem, and obstacles to treatment and/or follow through with recommended treatments.
- →Collaboration and consultation with the Interdisciplinary Treatment Team is provided to coordinate a collaborative effort to facilitate a safe discharge and to meet the agreed upon goals for a Veteran's treatment needs and include liaison with community professionals regarding needed services for Veterans and/or their families.
- →Services include but are not limited to nursing home placement, facilitating hospice services, home health services, financial resources, community linkage and referral, VA benefits, and transportation services.
- →Independently conducts psychosocial assessments as appropriate for treatment planning.
- →Assessment is to highlight the Veteran's strengths, limitations, internal and external supports, and service needs to optimize functional status.
- →Identifies the psychosocial complications that can be caused due to a sudden onset of an acute or chronic illness.
- →Independently provides crisis intervention services if needed, seeking to address cause, as well as the presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences, and serves as liaison to family members.
- →Effectively manages crises and can effectively use his/her problem-solving skills in an independent manner to assist the Veteran, family, staff, and community providers in solving problems.
- →Provides case management services to Veterans and families, as needed, throughout the continuum of care.
- →Participates in discharge planning with interdisciplinary team members and will be responsible for ensuring that discharge plans are executed in a manner that is timely and appropriate.
- →Provides treatment intervention in collaboration with the Veteran and family, guardian, caregiver, interdisciplinary treatment team, and community members.
- →Understands the range of treatment and skills for adult patients related to illness or chronic medical conditions, psychological needs, and age-associated conditions.
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: 372a3b47-db5b-483f-9ed8-cf67e653bfc5
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