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Social Worker (Program Coordinator)-Tele-Mental Health Program
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 51 days ago
About the Role
The purpose of the Social Worker Program Coordinator of the Tele-mental Health program is to provide independent clinical service delivery and administration of the Tele-mental Health Program within the Mental Health Service, as well as providing oversight and work assignments to the interdisciplinary staff working in the Program. The Social Worker Program Coordinator would be responsible for the administrative supervision of multiple interdisciplinary staff members.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties for this position include, but are not limited to: Clinical Responsibilities: Uses tele-mental health modalities to provide a wide range of assessment and diagnostic services for Veterans with a wide range of psychiatric disorders.
- →Provides motivational enhancement activities to prepare Veterans to participate in clinically appropriate care.
- →Provides expert evidence-based psychotherapy services for Veterans including individual and group therapy, family/relationship counseling, and psychoeducation.
- →Provides consultation to providers in the area of evidence-based interventions.
- →Promotes communication/interactions between medical team members, Veterans, and their families to facilitate the medical treatment process.
- →Administrative, Supervisory and other Significant Responsibilities: Develop and coordinates services offered to Veterans and their families enrolled in the tele-mental health program.
- →Services include assessment, medication management, crisis intervention, educational, individual, family, and group treatment, case management and measurement-based care.
- →Formulates, interprets, and implements policies and procedures pertaining to quality mental health care to assure compliance with internal and external performance standards.
- →Directs and guides various disciplines within the mental health service to assure efficiency, including the scheduling of activities, the redesign of workloads, daily monitoring of the operations of the program, and feedback to other Coordinators about staff performance.
- →Evaluates current program services in a systematic manner, including the collection, tabulation, and presentation of program statistics, trends, and outcome measures.
- →Interfaces with other program Coordinators, the Mental Health Leadership, and VA personnel regarding relevant programmatic issues with recommendations for improvement in service delivery and budgetary requests.
- →Serve as a member of the Mental Health Total Quality Improvement Team.
- →Maintains productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including but not limited to: VHA, VISN, Medical Center staff, labor partners, Veterans, and state organizations.
- →Adjust staffing levels or work procedures within the tele-mental health program to accommodate resource allocation decisions.
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.
- ✓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: 9183bf38-e1cc-45ac-a4c4-d7a94f19ccdf
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