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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 39 days ago
About the Role
The Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS) is currently seeking a social worker to join the Acute Care Coordination (CC) team. The inpatient medicine setting offers a dynamic and fast-paced work environment, where interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to accomplish time-sensitive tasks. Ensuring the safe, timely, and efficient discharge of inpatient Veterans is a critical component of SAVAHCS operations.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional As a member of the inpatient/acute care team, the CC SW performs social work and case management duties aligned with professional standards.
- →Key responsibilities include conducting biopsychosocial assessments, health screenings, advance directives, goals of care, crisis and risk assessments, safety planning, abuse reporting, psychoeducation, discharge planning, and other relevant services.
- →Report patient safety concerns, including suicide and abuse/neglect, promptly to appropriate parties.
- →Develop safe, timely discharge plans, collaborating with patients, their decision-makers, the multidisciplinary team, and community resources to ensure continuity of care.
- →Facilitate patient self-determination through advocacy, education, and counseling; coordinate discharge to home or necessary facilities.
- →Provide education on health management, VA and community resources, entitlements, advance directives, guardianship, insurance, and co-pays; refer veterans and families to suitable VA and community services.
- →Maintain professional relationships with medical center staff, subject matter experts, veteran support systems, leadership, and community agencies to ensure safe, effective, patient-centered care.
- →Stay current on whole health, culturally sensitive approaches, and evidence-based practices tailored to patient needs.
- →Document social work activities accurately, timely, and comprehensively, per policies.
- →Provide training and consultation to VA staff on social work practices and resources, and ensure compliance with all regulations, policies, and accreditation standards.
- →Engage in quality improvement initiatives, participate in organizational processes, and communicate pertinent activities to supervisors.
- →Pursue ongoing professional development, attend meetings and huddles, and, when appropriate, supervise students or less experienced social workers, seeking supervision from licensed clinical staff as needed.
- →Contribute to the hospital's mission through committee work, workgroups, special projects, and other duties that support program goals and VA priorities.
- →Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 07:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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/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
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