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Social Worker Program Coordinator (HUD/VASH)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 54 days ago
About the Role
HUD-VASH is an intensive case management program for chronically homeless Veterans aimed at providing psychosocial services to Veterans while residing in stable housing through HUD's Section 8 voucher system. The HUD-VASH Case Manager is a social worker with experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment.
What You'll Do
- →Interprets and explains VA's treatment and benefit programs.
- →Reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment identifying needs and strengths.
- →Serves Veterans who tend to have frequent and severe crises, lack family or an adequate community support network, be poor at self-monitoring, and frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, or have significant deficits in coping skills and require continuing professional psychosocial support.
- →Evaluates the client's situation, including the Veteran's reaction and ability to deal with it, and arrives at a reasoned conclusion.
- →Assesses at-risk factors and develops a preliminary disposition plan involving the Veteran and family or significant others.
- →Develops psychosocial treatment plans in coordination with interdisciplinary team members, including goals for psychosocial clinical treatment.
- →Determines the appropriate course of action, even in instances where actions can have serious impact on the life of the Veteran.
- →Responsible for clinical Social Work practice in the area or program to which assigned, including promotion of Social Work services as a key component of treatment.
- →Adjusts psychosocial treatment plan and interventions based on changing needs and response to interventions.
- →Participates in the assignment of Veterans to treatment teams and programs.
- →Consults with other specialists in planning treatment for Veterans and with co-morbidities.
- →Provides individual, family and group counseling services, including psychotherapy in some settings (if appropriately trained and certified in certain modalities).
- →Organizes community services on behalf of beneficiaries, developing and coordinating procedures for use of these services by related staff.
- →Develops working relationships and agreements with other organizations having responsibilities for the same patient population.
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: 8dcaf0be-3375-4f8c-a859-0f64f5a32b48
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