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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
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
- →VAPORHCS is a multi-site medical system that includes a major medical facility in Portland, Oregon, outpatient and residential facilities in Vancouver, Washington, and 10 Community Based Outpatient Clinics.
- →VAPORHCS is an academic medical facility with significant teaching and research programs.
- →The Women Gender Diverse Mental Health Program (WGDMH) Social Worker will provide Mental Health services to the Woman and Gender Diverse Veteran population at a location of the VA Portland Health Care System.
- →Clinical services include provision of high-quality psychosocial assessment, psychotherapy, advocacy, and coordination of linkages to other appropriate VA or community service providers/agencies as needed by the Veteran.
- →This is accomplished in collaboration with other members of the Mental Health Division or other interdisciplinary treatment teams as appropriate.
- →FUNCTIONS OR SCOPE OF ASSIGNED DUTIES Screening/Assessment - Under supervision, the social worker will develop an assessment of the Veteran in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team, the Veteran, family members, and significant others.
- →The goal of the assessment is to highlight the Veteran's strengths, limitations, and internal/external supports and service needs to optimize the Veteran's functional status.
- →The biopsychosocial assessment will include clinical interview, administration of psychiatric test instruments, and/or collateral information.
- →Some programs will require the use of breathalyzers and drugs screens.
- →Based on the biopsychosocial assessment, the mental health social worker uses professional judgment and beginning practice skills to make a diagnosis using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
- →The social worker provides treatment planning, evaluation, and intervention with serious and complicated, highly diverse cases involving substance abuse and psychiatric illness.
- →He/she demonstrates an understanding of current techniques to the treatment of this Veteran population related to their physical limitations, psychological needs, psychiatric conditions, environmental needs and age associated illnesses and conditions.
- →Treatment Planning/Goal Setting - Under supervision, the social worker develops or contributes to the development of the mental health treatment plan and then setting achievable treatment goals with the Veteran and/or family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team.
- →The social worker provides consultation and makes recommendations to the interdisciplinary team on course of treatment.
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: 5691310b-9ec3-493c-8fab-08ffcefac07f
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