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Social Worker (Primary Care Clinic)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 40 days ago
About the Role
This Social Worker (Primary Care Clinic) position is located within the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center Primary Care Clinic and surrounding community-based outpatient clinics (CBOCs). The incumbent will serve as back up to the Emergency Department, Acute Medicine and Community Living Center wards when deemed necessary and when patient care needs are identified. The incumbent must use a high level of skill in assessing and treating the complicated psychosocial problems of Veterans.
What You'll Do
- →Duties may include, but are not limited to: Independently work with Veterans and their families who are experiencing a wide range of complicated medical, psychiatric, emotional, behavioral, and psychosocial problems.
- →Independently complete thorough psychosocial assessments to determine the psychosocial functioning and needs of Veterans and/or their families.
- →Actively participate as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team and actively participate through collaboration with Veterans and family as well as interdisciplinary treatment team members in the development and implementation of treatment goals and interventions.
- →Facilitate actions for community placements through collaboration with Veterans and their families as well as interdisciplinary treatment team members to ensure that appropriate community placements are completed in a timely manner.
- →Serve as a liaison between Veterans and/or their families and VA and community resources in order to ensure thorough delivery of services.
- →Provide consultation and education to Veterans and their families regarding community resources, VA benefits and specialty programs, and advance directives.
- →Provide consultation to other treatment team and staff members regarding psychosocial needs of Veterans and/or their families and the impact of the identified psychosocial problems on the Veteran's health care planning and compliance with treatment.
- →Maintain knowledge of Veteran's benefits and services, community resources, and process for making appropriate referrals to community and other governmental programs or agencies.
- →Appropriately utilize principles of human growth and development over the life span and will be able to assist Veterans in coping with the loss and grief experiences from disability and terminal illness.
- →Serve on committees, work groups, and task forces at the facility as deemed appropriate by the supervisor and Chief of Social Work Service.
- →Provide assistance with the orientation and learning of less experienced social workers and, to serve as a preceptor/task supervisor/field educator for social work students and/or non licensed social workers.
- →Demonstrate knowledge and skill in the use of software applications for drafting documents and data management as well as other computer systems in use by the VHA.
- →Maintain a level of productivity and quality consistent with the complexity of the assignment and consistent with Social Work standards, Joint Commission standards, and facility standards.
- →Cross train to assist and provide cross coverage when needed within Social Work Service as well as collaborative duties as assigned, including care at CBOCs.
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 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.
- ✓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: 09aebe2f-3fa8-4cc1-9124-3a86cbe840e6
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