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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 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 eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.
What You'll Do
- →The National Center for Warrior Independence supports the Administration by advancing programs and partnerships that strengthen Veteran resilience, promote independent living, and ensure effective delivery of services across the enterprise.
- →The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System is Seeking Highly Energetic Candidates This position plays a vital role in supporting the Center's mission to enhance Veteran independence through coordinated services, strategic outreach, and programmatic excellence.
- →Ideal candidates are motivated, adaptable, and committed to improving Veteran outcomes through collaboration, innovation, and high-quality service delivery.
- →The role involves supporting interdisciplinary teams, managing key program functions, and helping drive initiatives that empower Veterans to thrive in their communities.
- →This vacancy is a solicitation for a Hiring Fair/Onboarding Event, which will be offered on an invite-only basis once the minimum position qualifications have been verified.
- →Candidates who resides in the West Los Angeles commuting area will be required to attend in person.
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional This announcement will fill Social Worker vacancies within the Community Engagement and Reintegration Service (CERS) and Mental Health located at the Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in Los Angeles, California.
- →Job duties include, but are not limited to: CERS - Care, Treatment & Rehabilitation Service (CTRS) CTRS: is a low-barrier, harm-reduction program on the West LA campus that supplies safe shelter (tiny shelters), healthcare access, behavioral health support, meals, hygiene facilities, and housing assistance for unsheltered Veterans.
- →Its mission is to stabilize high-risk Veterans and move them toward permanent housing.
- →Mental Health - ACT Team (Assertive Community Treatment) ACT Teams: provide intensive, community-based, multidisciplinary support for Veterans with serious mental illness who struggle to engage in traditional outpatient care.
- →Staff offer psychiatry, case management, crisis intervention, medication support, and rehabilitation directly in community settings to maintain stability and reduce hospitalizations.
- →(Supported by ACT-related positions listed in enterprise data.) CERS - HCHV Street Outreach HCHV Street Outreach: teams engage unsheltered Veterans living in encampments, vehicles, streets, and other unsafe settings.
- →Outreach staff identify vulnerable Veterans, offer immediate connection to VA services, provide crisis intervention, and link Veterans to treatment, rehabilitative programs, and transitional or permanent housing pathways.
- →Mental Health - Substance Abuse Treatment: provides evidence-based outpatient care to help Veterans manage substance use and behavioral addictions, improve their quality of life, and support recovery through counseling, assessment, care coordination, and referrals.
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 evaluation.
- ✓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: a2e23766-6330-4485-8c2a-56d6ba7d3659
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