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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 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 Social Worker is assigned as a member of the CBOC Mental Health Services at the WNC VA Health Care System in Franklin, NC.
- →The Social Worker provides Veterans in the Charles George VA Medical Center Community Based Outpatient Clinic with high quality, clinical treatment consisting of individual and group psychotherapy.
- →These services also include case management, advocacy, and coordination with appropriate VA and community service providers / agencies as needed by the client.
- →Duties and Responsibilities: The social worker will develop an assessment of the Veteran in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team, the Veteran, family members and significant others, whenever possible.
- →It is the responsibility of the social worker, working within the interdisciplinary treatment team, to develop a treatment plan with the Veteran based on this assessment.
- →Social worker will provide the Veteran with individual and group psychotherapy uniquely tailored to meet the needs of the Veteran.
- →The social worker is responsible for developing the treatment plan, and setting achievable treatment goals with the Veteran/family in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team members.
- →The social worker is the subject matter expert on VA and/or community resources.
- →The social worker will collaborate with other service providers in reassessing the Veteran's needs for non-institutional, institutional services/programs and entitlements.
- →The social worker is responsible for developing a resource file of VA and community social service programs and will refer the Veteran to needed services.
- →The social worker is responsible for making rapid assessments and developing crisis management plans to maintain patient in the home, for admission to acute, short term and/or long term placements.
- →Social worker will provide education related to VA and community resources, entitlements, Advance Directives/Living Will and will refer Veteran/families to the appropriate interdisciplinary team member for identified health education needs.
- →Social worker is responsible for the coordination of the referrals of non-institutional services such as ADHC/CADHC, inpatient hospice, home hospice, skilled and nonskilled homecare services in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team members.
- →The social worker is also responsible for the coordination of the referrals of institutional placements in Adult Homes, Assisted Living Programs, CNH or VA-CLC.
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: 82a666cb-0038-4c3a-af58-fb2aeb3ee4d1
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