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Social Worker - Intensive Community Mental Health Recovery
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 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
- →The Clinical Social Worker provides services in Tuskegee VA Medical Center's Intensive Community Mental Health Recovery (ICMHR).
- →The primary responsibility of this position is to provide intensive case management services, continuous quality improvement activities, evaluation/consultation, psychosocial assessments, patient groups, individual therapy, placement services, and referrals to various community agencies and hospital services to ICMHR patients.
- →GS-9 Social worker will use professional judgment and close supervision to make decisions about services and treatment provided to Veterans and their significant others/family members.
- →The Social Worker seek regular and ongoing clinical supervision and consultation needed or at least monthly.
- →The social worker plays an integral member of the multidisciplinary team providing mental health services to patients in the ICMHR team.
- →The ICMHRS RANGE Program Social Worker provides clinical psychosocial and case management services to eligible veterans and significant others consistent with the goals and methods of ICMHRS and with all relevant medical center policies and procedures under the supervision of a fully licensed Master Social Worker.
- →With close supervision, provide comprehensive outpatient treatment, with major emphasis on case management for psychiatric patients who are chronic users of inpatient resources.
- →The incumbent is required to provide clinical support and/or treatment to an adult or geriatric patient population on a regular basis Intensive case management services will be provided to assigned patients and significant others, consistent with the goals of the ICMHRS Program Outreach and linkage with community agencies and groups will be maintained.
- →Utilize individual, family and group therapies and educational programs to provide psychosocial treatment and evaluation with documentation.
- →Target population encompasses a wide variety of individuals and families from various socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds.
- →Participate in team staffing regarding patient selection, determination of treatment plans and goals, progress evaluations, discharge planning, and aftercare.
- →GS-11 The Clinical Social Worker's caseload is complex based on the severity of the mental illness, co morbidities, and resistance to standard treatments.
- →Treatment interventions are innovative and highly individualized.
- →Patients are referred to the ICMHR program from the outpatient psychiatry clinics and the inpatient psychiatric unit.
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: 771abb63-604f-4fbf-8531-818003a78264
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