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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 6 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
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The Senior Social Worker has specialized knowledge of practice related to homeless, at-risk, and justice-involved Veterans.
- →The incumbent in this position functions as a Social Worker for VAPAHCS's Health Care for Homeless Veterans (HCHV) Program.
- →The incumbent is responsible for identifying, engaging, and working directly with veterans in a variety of settings, both within the VA Divisions and outpatient clinics and in the community in shelters, drop-in centers, and community housing settings.
- →The HCHV Social Worker will work to engage the veteran and link him/her to needed services with the goal of psychosocial stabilization and increased residential stability.
- →The HCHV Social Worker partners with community agencies through informal outreach agreements and more formalized contracts and agreements.
- →GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNED DUTIES INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO: Outreach & Direct Services: Providing outreach services at the full extent of their relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scope of practice, elements of practice, certification, functional statement, position description, or other VHA or local facility-approved documentation of competency.
- →Participating in team performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and outreach services for Veterans.
- →Performing community-based outreach activities to engage homeless Veterans.
- →Case Management: Includes responsibility to conduct psychosocial assessments and develop treatment plans in collaboration with the veteran/family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team, and possesses the skills to offer psychosocial interventions.
- →Incumbent develops psychosocial treatment plans, actively involving the veteran and their family or significant others, in coordination with interdisciplinary team members, based on the psychosocial assessments, including goals for clinical treatment.
- →Incumbent effectively provides case management services while utilizing professional skill, objectivity, insight, advanced clinical training, and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options, recognizing potential high-risk factors, acuity, and needs for services.
- →Consults: The incumbent may serve as a responder for the National Call Center and Homeless Consults for HCHV.
- →Evaluation, Education, Supervision, Coaching, and Mentoring: The incumbent actively participates in the HCHV conference calls and attends training offered by the HCHV Program.
- →Incumbent displays accountability and responsibility for improving professional skills, participating in planning and executing specific staff development projects, attending seminars and institutes, and participating in training programs of other disciplines as requested.
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 the 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: 3e0d5aa1-fc1c-48b9-9121-a68133469230
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