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Social Worker (Program Coordinator)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 49 days ago
About the Role
The Samuel S. Stratton VA Medical Center has 1 vacancy for a Supervisory Social Worker (Program Coordinator) at the Albany VAMC. The incumbent serves as program coordinator at the GS-12 grade to assist in the implementation of policies and procedures from the National Recovery Coordinator and to facilitate implementation of recovery-oriented services in Mental Health Care programs as outlined in the VHA Uniform Mental Health Services Handbook and VHA Directive 1163.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU VA Careers - Licensed Clinical Social Worker: https://youtube.com/embed/U_xC25QsN0w Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major duties include but are not limited to: Clinical Patient Care: Psychosocial Assessments: Performs finding functions and outreach, identifies and screens patients for psychosocial needs.
- →Interviews Veterans and their family members/significant others to establish facts about the Veteran's situation, 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.
- →Interprets and explains VA's treatment and benefit programs.
- →Reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment, identifying needs and strengths.
- →Effectively uses professional skill, objectivity and insight.
- →Provides education with recovery-oriented core principles to patients, family members, and significant others.
- →Supervises assigned staff in the area of psychosocial assessment.
- →Psychosocial Treatment: Provides evidenced-based psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, groups, families and eligible caregivers in outpatient treatment and prevention-oriented domains.
- →Possesses the knowledge and ability to independently implement treatment modalities and provide psychotherapy for individuals, families and groups at the appropriate level of licensure and within current scope of practice.
- →Possesses general knowledge of Veterans' benefits and services relating to special programs to include service-connected compensation and non service connected pension and social security disability and facilitates referrals based on Veterans' needs and eligibility.
- →Responsible for clinical practice in the areas under the incumbent's supervision.
- →Coordination of Care: Independently provides consultation services to other staff members regarding the psychosocial needs of veterans and provides consultation on the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and adherence to treatment plans.
- →Responsible for clinical practice and treatment coordination in the areas under the incumbent's supervision.
- →Actively involved to ensure continuity of psychosocial treatment and services across clinical settings.
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.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
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