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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 39 days ago
About the Role
The New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System (NMVAHCS) is seeking a social worker for the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). The role provides primary, longitudinal care focused on prevention, health promotion, coordination, and chronic disease management. In this Veteran-centric approach, social workers serve as care coordinators for a panel of veterans, ensuring healthcare aligns with their needs.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The social worker is assigned to the Primary Care-PACT.
- →The goal is to support veterans' stability and well-being through comprehensive, collaborative interventions.
- →They must expertly assess and treat Veterans' complex psychosocial issues affecting health and care.
- →Responsibilities include evaluating stressors such as medical adjustments, mental health or substance abuse, economic hardship, legal problems, and housing or transportation barriers.
- →Referrals come from the interdisciplinary team, Veterans, families, or community professionals.
- →The incumbent conducts thorough assessments, identifies root causes, and promotes understanding of contributing factors.
- →They collaborate with patients and families to explore treatment options, encouraging lasting positive changes.
- →Coordination with VA staff and community agencies is essential to problem-solving and service delivery.
- →Case management involves working with the outpatient team to facilitate access to services like transportation, advance directives, financial aid, housing, and resources to address functional decline.
- →Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 08:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- →Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
- →When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
- →Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
- →Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
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
Job ID: 1334278b-0fdc-4b58-ac8a-5e581506e1fb
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