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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 33 days ago
About the Role
This Social Worker position is in the Mental Health services at the VA Providence Healthcare System, located at the Providence VA Medical Center in Providence, RI. Incumbent will be expected to travel to the various servicing Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC's). This position is a full-time at 40 hours per week.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The social worker performs outreach and facilitates eligibility determination by securing military discharge papers when necessary and facilitates enrollment for care with VA eligibility staff.
- →In addition, the social worker will determine Health Care for Homeless Veterans (HCHV) eligibility in accordance with 38 U.S.C. 2002(1) and The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended by S. 896 The Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009.
- →The social worker conducts psychosocial assessments; develops plans of care in collaboration with the Veteran/family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team.
- →The social worker possesses the knowledge and skills to implement treatment modalities and provide counseling for individuals, families, and groups.
- →The social worker possesses the skills to perform psychosocial interventions and measure outcome results.
- →Major duties include, but are not limited to: Coordinates and engages in community-based services, including information and referral for additional services from other VA programs, other government programs and community agency programs.
- →Maintains a caseload of Veterans served, to include those who are actively unhoused as well as those working toward permanent housing (to include as part of enrollment in the HUD-VASH program).
- →Identifies high risk patients and provides case management services.
- →Provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as presenting complaint, engaging family and other support systems as appropriate.
- →Responsible for landlord engagement to help build and maintain a housing stock for veterans served.
- →Function as a liaison between landlord/management company and tenant (i.e., veteran) to help problem solve landlord-tenant concerns and maintain tenancy.
- →Functions independently with patients and families who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical and social problems, utilizing individual, group and family counseling and therapy skills.
- →Provides consultation services to other VA staff regarding the psychosocial needs of homeless Veterans, the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and adherence to treatment plans.
- →Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing, with people from varied backgrounds.
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.
- ✓A current, valid state-issued Driver's License is required for this position.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 00b5cfbe-e41b-447f-a3c3-069735822c0b
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