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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 60 days ago
About the Role
MHICM: The clinical and program activities assumed under this position are conducted as part of ICMHR Program. MHICM RANGE clinicians execute the same duties, but with a focus on Veterans residing in more rural areas. The goal of MHICM and MHICM RANGE is to develop, implement, and assess the benefit of a behaviorally oriented program of psychosocial rehabilitation, intensive case management, and community-based treatment for chronic mentally ill Veterans.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major Duties: Provide intensive case management services to assigned Veterans and significant others, consistent with the goals and methods of ICMHR.
- →Work will be conducted in the community and in Veteran's homes.
- →Independent decision making will be required to provide treatment to Veterans diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness.
- →Utilizes knowledge of theories and modalities, such as Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) in the specialized treatment of Veterans with Severe Mental Illness (SMI).
- →Independently conducts psychosocial assessments and evidence-based treatment interventions to a wide variety of Veterans from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, education and other diversified backgrounds.
- →Independently implements a variety of evidence-based treatment modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical, and social problems to achieve treatment goals.
- →Provides consultation services to new social workers, social work graduate students, and other staff about the psychosocial needs of Veterans and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and compliance with treatment.
- →Independently assesses the psychosocial functioning and needs of Veterans and their family members, identifying the Veteran's strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and psychosocial acuity.
- →In collaboration with the Veteran, family/caregiver, and interdisciplinary treatment team, the social worker facilitates the delivery of health care services.
- →Provides professional, independent social work services to Veterans with Severe Mental Illnesses.
- →Provides case management and care coordination to facilitate appropriate delivery of health care services, incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of Veterans, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
- →Provides a range of interventions and evidence-based treatment modalities to include individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy.
- →Incumbent will complete required clinical forms for monitoring service delivery and outcomes as determined by the ICMHR Program Director as well as staff at the Northeast Program Evaluation Center (NEPEC).
- →Supports CARF and Measurement Based care by administering measures that will assist with tracking progress of Veteran treatment and goals.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
Job ID: f6364fb6-fe4f-487f-b1d3-ba90826492f2
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