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Social Worker (Suicide Prevention Program)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 75 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 Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention (OMHSP) provides strategic guidance to improve mental health care for over 1.5 million Veterans.
- →The Suicide Prevention Program (SPP) leads implementation of VA's National Strategy for Preventing Veteran Suicide and the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for Assessment and Management of Patients at Risk for Suicide through a comprehensive public health approach.
- →Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Collaboration with inpatient treatment providers to support appropriate discharge planning following recommendations for treatment of patients at high risk for suicide.
- →Skills in independently conducting psychosocial assessments and treatment interventions to individuals from diversified backgrounds.
- →Assuring that all Veterans assigned to the facility high risk monitoring list are being followed for a time period of 90 day.
- →Contacting and collaborating with the Veteran's' primary therapist to coordinate monitoring activities Making recommendations for referral of Veterans to a variety of appropriate programs such as health busy, MHICM, PRRC, etc.
- →Maintaining awareness of suicide treatment options and making recommendation to the patient's provider when new options become available.
- →Maintaining and improving upon a fundamental knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures; to include the typical effects of treatment plans and medications.
- →Assuring that all high risk patients have completed and received a copy of safety plan which documents crisis prevention strategies that the Veterans identifies and agrees with.
- →Collecting and reporting data related to suicide behaviors, safety plan completion, outreach activities and high risk monitory as required by local administration, VISN, and VACO OMHSP.
- →Respond to consults from the Veterans Crisis Line.
- →Assisting with provision of ongoing gatekeeper training program (Operation SAVE) for new employees and non-clinical frontline staff such as clerks and telephone operators as needed to assure that they are aware of options for patients with whom they come in contact during crisis situations.
- →Assisting with outreach to community resources and groups to assure that they are aware of how to recognize Veterans at risk for suicide and their options for getting these Veterans assistance.
- →Establish and maintaining working relationships with the patient, family, or any external agencies used in the treatment process.
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 evaluation.
- ✓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: 04d4cddb-1dee-40ed-9509-cc4d09de7c42
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