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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 6 days ago
About the Role
The VA New York Harbor Healthcare system is currently recruiting one Social Worker for the Social Work service at the Brooklyn Campus location. The services provided by the social worker include direct practice, multidisciplinary practice, community practice, training, research, and student supervision.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include but are not limited to: Provide professional social work services to clients with a broad range of psychosocial and environmental problems.
- →Independently manage complex cases, exercising mature professional judgment.
- →Deliver individual, group, family, couple, and program development services for target populations.
- →Apply a variety of theories and models, integrating and adapting them to client biopsychosocial situations.
- →Participate in treatment teams, work groups, and coordination efforts.
- →Collaborate and consult with other disciplines and community agencies.
- →Engage in formal and informal conferences and team meetings to evaluate, design, and implement programming.
- →Conduct public relations, resource development, and resource coordination.
- →Develop and maintain linkages with community agencies for service coordination.
- →Outreach to Veterans who are admitted to our Contract Nursing Homes.
- →Train social work and multidisciplinary staff.
- →Supervise students and confer with Schools of Social Work regarding student progress.
- →Participate in staff development activities as both participant and presenter.
- →Engage in research as needed.
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: ca92f62c-7b57-42b5-8204-43ae6fb2f695
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