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Social Worker - Mental Health Case Manager
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 39 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
- →Duties and Responsibilities include: Interviews Clients and Family Members Interviews Veterans and their family members and is able to establish a professional rapport to create an environment conductive to securing information.
- →Leads interviews to elicit information and assemble relevant facts about the Veteran's situation that led to the referral and need for services.
- →Interprets and explains VA's treatment and benefit program.
- →Conducts Psychosocial Assessments Independently evaluates the client's situation, including presenting problems and their causes, and the impact of such problems on the Veteran's functioning and health as part of a comprehensive psychosocial assessment.
- →Reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment, identifying needs and strengths.
- →Assesses at-risk factors and develops a preliminary disposition plan, involving the Veteran and family or significant others.
- →Performs insightful assessment of serious and complicated cases involving psychiatric illness, catastrophic medical conditions, dementia and other diagnoses.
- →Plans Effective Treatment Develops psychosocial treatment plans in coordination with interdisciplinary team members, including goals for psychosocial clinical treatment.
- →Independently concludes the appropriate action, even in instances where actions can have serious impact on the life of the Veteran.
- →Evaluates his/her practice as a social worker on an on-going basis through participation in professional peer review, case conferences, research studies or other organized means.
- →Makes adjustments to the psychosocial treatment plan and interventions based on changing needs and response to interventions.
- →Initiates and effects change in methods and interventions to promote efficient practice and improve patient outcomes.
- →Participates in the assignment of Veterans to treatment teams and programs.
- →Consults with other specialists in planning treatment for Veterans with co-morbidities.
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: e3d74b1c-ac2e-44a1-8dc5-8244e7739c30
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