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Social Worker (Patient Align Care Team)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 13 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent is a medical Social Worker in the Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System (TVCBHCS) assigned to an Outpatient Clinic. The incumbent, under social work supervision, addresses barriers to care, reduces unnecessary walk-ins in PACT and Specialty Pact clinics and/or Urgent care visits by providing coordination of care and psychosocial aspects of the medical illness and adjustment process.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include but not limited to: Independently performs case finding functions and outreach, identifying and screening patients for psychosocial needs.
- →Incumbent must possess the knowledge and ability to independently implement treatment modalities, provide counseling or psychotherapy for individuals, families and groups.
- →Independently conducts psychosocial assessments.
- →Develop treatment plans in collaboration with the veteran/family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team.
- →Incumbent possesses the skills to offer psychosocial interventions and measures outcomes to interventions.
- →Incumbent is able to coordinates community-based services, including information and referral for additional services from other VA programs, other government programs and community agency programs.
- →Independently identify high-risk patients and provides case management services.
- →Incumbent provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences and serves as liaison to family members.
- →Has working knowledge and experience in use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities and treatment procedures.
- →This includes acute, chronic and traumatic illnesses/injuries, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology.
- →Establish and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with veterans and their families.
- →Independently work with patients and families who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical and social problems utilizing individual, group and family counseling and counseling skills.
- →Independently provides consultation services to other staff regarding the psychosocial needs of veterans and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and adherence to treatment plan.
- →Evaluate incumbents own practice through professional peer review, case conferences and other organizational means.
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.
- ✓A current, unrestricted, valid state-issued Driver's License is required for this position.
- ✓Operation of a motor vehicle is required for this position.
- ✓A pre-employment examination will be required to validate your ability to operate a motor vehicle.
- ✓A full physical will not be required.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 68634c98-dade-4b85-8ff6-1c7cb86b4b60
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