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Social Worker
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
About the Role
The incumbent is a professional clinical social worker providing direct services to individuals and families, including work with individuals and in groups. The incumbent is assigned to the 4 East Unit (Med/Surg) and to the Urgent Care Unit. The incumbent may have collateral duties and programs as assigned. The incumbent will provide coverage to Outpatient SW, CLC, and HBPC during periods of absence of co-workers and as needed.
What You'll Do
- →Position requires the ability to independently conduct psychosocial assessments of a wide variety of individuals from various socioeconomic, lifestyle, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds.
- →Position requires knowledge of human development and behavior (physical and psychological), and the differential influences of the environment, society, and lifestyle.
- →Incumbent possesses the skills to offer psychosocial interventions and measures outcomes to interventions.
- →Independently caries inpatient and outpatient care activities in full accordance with the broad program goals of the VA health care system.
- →Within these broad categorizations, the incumbent must tailor patient care/support services to meet the needs of individual patients.
- →This includes responsibility for assessment of each patient's needs, and delivery of services, which are responsive to the concerns of individual patients to the extent possible.
- →Incumbent possesses the advanced practice skills to independently make a psychosocial diagnosis and offer psychosocial interventions and then measures outcomes to interventions.
- →The social worker participates in daily interdisciplinary care planning meetings.
- →Ongoing assessments and updating treatment plans are done on a daily basis based on changing needs as health status changes.
- →The social worker will address the unique needs of homebound, frail, disabled/chronic and/or dying Veterans.
- →Independently works with patients and families who are experiencing emotional, medical, and social problems.
- →Assesses the psychosocial functioning and needs of patients and their family members, and formulates and implements a treatment plan, identifying the patient's problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and assistance needed.
- →Independently performs case finding functions and outreach, identifying, and screening patients for psychosocial needs.
- →Incumbent possesses the basic knowledge and ability to implement psychosocial treatment modalities.
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.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical 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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: f8ccef0c-97b2-4650-b134-327b66d7f4d2
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