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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 11 days ago
About the Role
The Brooklyn VA Medical Center is seeking a highly qualified full-time Social Worker to serve as a member of the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (MH-RRTP) within the Mental Health Care Line. The incumbent will help to ensure Veterans have prompt access to Substance Use Disorder (SUD) services in the program and any other required medical and mental health care at the medical center.
What You'll Do
- →Functions as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team and is responsible for providing biopsychosocial assessments, treatment planning, case management, individual, family, and group counseling, crisis intervention, discharge planning, and coordination of care.
- →Works with a wide range of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational and other diversified backgrounds who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical, and social problems.
- →Knowledgeable of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities and treatment procedures (i.e. acute, chronic and traumatic illnesses/injuries, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology) to formulate a treatment plan.
- →Provide comprehensive clinical social work services to Veterans with serious mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders, and complex psychosocial needs requiring residential psychiatric rehabilitation.
- →Services are provided utilizing recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and Veteran-centered principles designed to promote psychiatric stability, improve psychosocial functioning, foster community reintegration, and facilitate successful transition to outpatient care.
- →Provides ongoing case management services including coordination of psychiatric, medical, vocational, housing, financial, legal, and community resources throughout the Veteran's residential admission.
- →Assists Veterans in developing independent living skills, improving psychosocial functioning, strengthening community integration, and achieving individualized recovery goals through rehabilitation-focused interventions.
- →Coordinates discharge planning to promote continuity of care through timely referrals to outpatient mental health services, primary care, vocational rehabilitation, homeless programs, community providers, and other appropriate VA and community resources.
- →Collaborates with psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, peer support specialists, recreation therapists, health technicians, Whole Health staff, and other interdisciplinary team members to ensure coordinated Veteran-centered care.
- →Provides education to Veterans and family members regarding recovery, treatment recommendations, VA benefits, advance directives, wellness strategies, and available community resources.
- →Documents assessments, treatment plans, clinical interventions, case management activities, discharge planning, and other clinical services in the electronic health record in accordance with VA policy and professional practice standards.
- →Maintains professional competency through participation in mandatory education, continuing professional development, and required clinical training.
- →Additional duties as needed Work Schedule: Full-Time, 8:00am-4:30pm 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.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: f6202ce8-893a-43f7-b9bd-17ac287530be
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