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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS) is currently seeking a social worker to join the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). Responsibilities include assessing and documenting signs of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or intimate partner violence; maintaining Veteran privacy and confidentiality per policies; and advocating with VA and community agencies to protect the best interests of Veterans and their families/caregivers.
What You'll Do
- →Performs discharge planning and other relevant services.
- →Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team as a PACT team member to coordinate services addressing homelessness, hospice, palliative care, nursing home, in-home health, VA benefits, IPV, and transportation.
- →Develops strong, effective relationships with Veterans, caregivers, agencies, and organizations, providing referrals to VA and community resources including direct admissions to VA programs such as Community Residential Care, Respite, Telehealth, and Community Nursing Homes.
- →Guides caregivers and families through complex systems and stays current on relevant legislation, serving as a liaison between VA and external agencies.
- →Educates Veterans and families on health conditions, community resources, benefits, advance directives, substance use treatment, guardianship, insurance, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and co-pays.
- →Manages complex cases by incorporating psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within scope of practice.
- →Assesses and documents at-risk Veterans, including crisis interventions for suicidality, homicidality, and safety concerns, developing safety plans as needed.
- →Formulates and implements personalized treatment plans with measurable goals, leveraging Veterans' strengths and needs.
- →Complies with all federal, state, and local policies and regulations.
- →Participates in a High Reliability Organization culture by engaging in process improvement, reporting deficiencies, and addressing program issues.
- →Commits to ongoing professional development by attending HPPAC meetings, program trainings, and staff activities, contributing to continuous quality improvement.
- →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).
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: 6e684f62-e7cf-43c2-ba92-49aaa873b96d
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