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Social Worker - Substance Abuse Treatment Team
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 46 days ago
About the Role
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
What You'll Do
- →The Substance Abuse Treatment Team (SATT) Social Worker provides clinical psychosocial, mental health, and case management services to eligible Veterans who have problems with substance abuse or dependence and may include work with family members and the Veteran as part of the treatment plan.
- →Their health care, mental healthcare, psychosocial problems, and needs are complex and require a high degree of clinical oversight and creative problem-solving.
- →This position is located in Jacksonville.
- →The Substance Abuse Treatment Team (SATT) Social Worker facilitates efficient and appropriate delivery of services across episodes of care, which may encompass discharge issues from inpatient detoxification, ambulatory detoxification, outpatient treatment, and residential treatment within the VA or under contract in community care programs.
- →The SATT social worker coordinates care with other services provided within the Medical Center, including Vocational Rehabilitation, Health Care for Homeless Veterans Program, the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team, and other Mental Health Services, along with community partners.
- →Interprets and explains the 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.
- →Assesses high risk factors, acuity and need for services.
- →Has the ability to serve Veterans who tend to have frequent and severe crises, lack family or an adequate community support network, be poor at self-monitoring, frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, have significant deficits in coping skills, and require continuing professional psychological support.
- →Other assigned duties may include but are not limited to: Makes Psychosocial/Mental Health Diagnoses Plans Effective Treatment Implements Treatment Plans Provides education to Patient, Stakeholders, and Staff Other duties will be performed as assigned.
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00AM to 4:30PM Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 55606F / 50626F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized EDRP Authorized: May be authorized to highly qualified candidates.
- →Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive.
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: 1683ff1c-7389-4e03-bd59-ca4a992ede39
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