Social Worker
- Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the HUD-VASH program. - Performs site visits of HUD-VASH apartments to ensure that Veterans reside in safe environments in compliance with local housing codes. - Verifies the Veteran's status, eligibility for VA medical care, and eligibility of program participation. - Responsible for establishing a process for referrals and admissions to the HUD-VASH Program, ensuring that homeless Veterans are considered as primary participants for program acceptance. - Responsible for collecting and submitting HUD-VASH Program participant data as outlined by NEPEC evaluation procedures. - Responsible for providing oversight of HUD-VASH case management. Case management is defined as the provision of services by VA clinical staff to homeless Veterans and includes all activities to provide appropriate treatment and maintain Veterans in HUD approved stable housing. - Coordinates care including serving as an advocate on behalf of the Veterans to ensure comprehensive service delivery, and linking and referring Veterans to the VA Medical Center, VA Regional Offices and/or community agencies. - Complies with criminal conflict of interest laws and Executive Branch Standards of conduct so as to avoid conflicts of interest while serving as the HUD-VASH Case Manager. - Participates in the HUD-VASH Program conference calls and attends training offered by the HUD-VASH. - Responsible for developing and administering local policy and SOP for the HUDVASH Program. This includes maintaining policies and documentation as required for CARF and JCAHO accreditation. - Participates in program planning and development, advising the supervisor of shifting trends with caseloads and identifying the need for and making recommendations on program procedure or policy changes based upon work experiences. - Participates in the orientation/teaching of graduate social work/nursing students, students of other disciplines, and Medical Center personnel on the biopsychosocial aspects of homelessness. - Performs accountability functions:
1) document all contacts with patients/families in the medical charts; 2) completes statistical, administrative, staffing studies and other reports in accordance with VA Medical Center and respective professional discipline service policies. - Works with VA Medical Center multi-disciplinary teams and community agencies to strive for developing more effective and efficient ways of delivering healthcare services to HUD-VASH Program Veterans. Responsible for completing the following duties/
Responsibilities:
- Conducts psychosocial assessments to determine needs of Veterans and family members. - Is an active participant in the treatment planning process with other disciplines. - Participates in discharge planning with other disciplines and will be responsible for ensuring that discharge plans are executed in a manner that is timely and appropriate. - Provides individual, family and group counseling as appropriate. - Provides consultation/education to Veterans and families on community resources, advance directives and VA benefits. - Acts as a consultant to other team/staff members. - Provides consultation/education to medical residents on social work practice and VA policy and procedure. - Acts as liaison between VA and community resources, to include marketing and public relation duties as needed. - Provides case management to Veterans and families, as needed, throughout the continuum of care. - Provides a full range of social work services within commonly accepted standards of social work practice which includes case work, individual, family and group counseling, discharge planning, case management and other services as appropriate. - Addresses Advance Directives and Organ Donation in accordance with the standards of their work area. - Provides wellness/prevention education and facilitate Patient/family support groups as appropriate. - Supervise the practice of social work students, or a less experienced social worker. - Coordinates treatment and communicate with the care lines to facilitate continuity of care for Veterans. - Participates in committee assignments, as deemed necessary by the service manager. - Maintain data and statistical compilations to comply with JCAHO, CARF, VA and medical center policy and procedures. - Assist patients and their significant others with coping and dealing with the loss and grief experiences in disability, terminal illness and death. - Participates in a rotation of on-call social workers, including modification of tour of duty to accommodate patient care needs on weekends. - Participates in assessing all Veterans who present through the Walk-in Center for evaluation to the HCHV Program. - All other duties as assigned. Physical Requirements:
Physical Demands of the work are generally minor. The work is primarily sedentary, although the stress involved in dealing continually with persons in emotional distress and who may be uncooperative and occasionally violent makes this work notably more demanding than most sedentary jobs. For additional information on Physical Standards please see VA Directive and Handbook 5019. http:
//www.va.gov/vapubs/ Basic
Qualifications:
Citizenship. Be a citizen of the United States. Education. Have a master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Graduates of schools of social work that are in candidacy status do not meet this requirement until the school of social work is fully accredited. A doctoral degree in social work may not be substituted for the master's degree in social work. Licensure. Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS-185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the master's degree level. English Language Proficiency. Social workers must be proficient in spoken and written English. Preferred
Experience:
The incumbent for the Senior Social Worker position must have good organizational skills with the ability to manage diverse case management responsibilities. Grade Determination:
GS-12 Senior Social Worker Experience/Education. The candidate must have at least two years of experience post advanced practice clinical licensure and should be in a specialized area of social work practice of which, one year must be equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Senior social workers have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment. Senior social workers are experts in their specialized area of practice. Senior social workers may have certification or other post-masters training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship or equivalent supervised professional experience in a specialty. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 1. Advanced knowledge of and mastery of theories and modalities used in the specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness. Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice. Ability to determine priority for services and provide specialized treatment services. 2. Advanced and expert skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations. This includes individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial and/or case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with polytraumatic injuries, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, visual impairment, post-traumatic stress disorder, etc. 3. Advanced knowledge and expert skill in developing and implementing methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in the specialty area, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services. Ability to coordinate the delivery of specialized psychosocial services and programs. Ability to design system changes based on empirical findings. 4. Ability to provide subject matter consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in the specialty area, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills. Ability to teach and mentor staff and students in the specialty area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or for specialty certifications. 5. Ability to expand clinical knowledge in the profession, demonstrating innovation in the creation of new models of psychosocial assessment or intervention to identify and address specialized clinical needs. Ability to write policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the specialty population or specialty treatment program. Tour of Duty:
Monday - Friday 8:
00 am - 4:
30pm References:
VA Handbook 5005, Chapter II, Appendix G39. This standard is available in the Human Resources Liaison Office for review Telework:
May be available to highly qualified candidate, according to local policy Virtual:
This position is not virtual Recruitment/Relocation Incentive:
May be authorized for highly qualified candidates Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required Note:
These positions are covered by the bargaining unit
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
1) document all contacts with patients/families in the medical charts; 2) completes statistical, administrative, staffing studies and other reports in accordance with VA Medical Center and respective professional discipline service policies. - Works with VA Medical Center multi-disciplinary teams and community agencies to strive for developing more effective and efficient ways of delivering healthcare services to HUD-VASH Program Veterans. Responsible for completing the following duties/
Responsibilities:
- Conducts psychosocial assessments to determine needs of Veterans and family members. - Is an active participant in the treatment planning process with other disciplines. - Participates in discharge planning with other disciplines and will be responsible for ensuring that discharge plans are executed in a manner that is timely and appropriate. - Provides individual, family and group counseling as appropriate. - Provides consultation/education to Veterans and families on community resources, advance directives and VA benefits. - Acts as a consultant to other team/staff members. - Provides consultation/education to medical residents on social work practice and VA policy and procedure. - Acts as liaison between VA and community resources, to include marketing and public relation duties as needed. - Provides case management to Veterans and families, as needed, throughout the continuum of care. - Provides a full range of social work services within commonly accepted standards of social work practice which includes case work, individual, family and group counseling, discharge planning, case management and other services as appropriate. - Addresses Advance Directives and Organ Donation in accordance with the standards of their work area. - Provides wellness/prevention education and facilitate Patient/family support groups as appropriate. - Supervise the practice of social work students, or a less experienced social worker. - Coordinates treatment and communicate with the care lines to facilitate continuity of care for Veterans. - Participates in committee assignments, as deemed necessary by the service manager. - Maintain data and statistical compilations to comply with JCAHO, CARF, VA and medical center policy and procedures. - Assist patients and their significant others with coping and dealing with the loss and grief experiences in disability, terminal illness and death. - Participates in a rotation of on-call social workers, including modification of tour of duty to accommodate patient care needs on weekends. - Participates in assessing all Veterans who present through the Walk-in Center for evaluation to the HCHV Program. - All other duties as assigned. Physical Requirements:
Physical Demands of the work are generally minor. The work is primarily sedentary, although the stress involved in dealing continually with persons in emotional distress and who may be uncooperative and occasionally violent makes this work notably more demanding than most sedentary jobs. For additional information on Physical Standards please see VA Directive and Handbook 5019. http:
//www.va.gov/vapubs/ Basic
Qualifications:
Citizenship. Be a citizen of the United States. Education. Have a master's degree in social work from a school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Graduates of schools of social work that are in candidacy status do not meet this requirement until the school of social work is fully accredited. A doctoral degree in social work may not be substituted for the master's degree in social work. Licensure. Persons hired or reassigned to social worker positions in the GS-185 series in VHA must be licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the master's degree level. English Language Proficiency. Social workers must be proficient in spoken and written English. Preferred
Experience:
The incumbent for the Senior Social Worker position must have good organizational skills with the ability to manage diverse case management responsibilities. Grade Determination:
GS-12 Senior Social Worker Experience/Education. The candidate must have at least two years of experience post advanced practice clinical licensure and should be in a specialized area of social work practice of which, one year must be equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Senior social workers have experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment. Senior social workers are experts in their specialized area of practice. Senior social workers may have certification or other post-masters training from a nationally recognized professional organization or university that includes a defined curriculum/course of study and internship or equivalent supervised professional experience in a specialty. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 1. Advanced knowledge of and mastery of theories and modalities used in the specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness. Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice. Ability to determine priority for services and provide specialized treatment services. 2. Advanced and expert skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations. This includes individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial and/or case management interventions used in the treatment of veterans with polytraumatic injuries, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, visual impairment, post-traumatic stress disorder, etc. 3. Advanced knowledge and expert skill in developing and implementing methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in the specialty area, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services. Ability to coordinate the delivery of specialized psychosocial services and programs. Ability to design system changes based on empirical findings. 4. Ability to provide subject matter consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in the specialty area, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills. Ability to teach and mentor staff and students in the specialty area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or for specialty certifications. 5. Ability to expand clinical knowledge in the profession, demonstrating innovation in the creation of new models of psychosocial assessment or intervention to identify and address specialized clinical needs. Ability to write policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the specialty population or specialty treatment program. Tour of Duty:
Monday - Friday 8:
00 am - 4:
30pm References:
VA Handbook 5005, Chapter II, Appendix G39. This standard is available in the Human Resources Liaison Office for review Telework:
May be available to highly qualified candidate, according to local policy Virtual:
This position is not virtual Recruitment/Relocation Incentive:
May be authorized for highly qualified candidates Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required Note:
These positions are covered by the bargaining unit
- Department:
0185 Social Work - Salary Range:
$76,721 to $99,741 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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