Social Worker -HUD VASH

Allied Health Professional

Total Rewards Duties will vary by grade, but at the GS-11 level:

• Engages homeless Veterans, especially those who are chronically homeless and are highly vulnerable to homelessness, verifying a Veteran's status, eligibility for VHA health care through the eligibility office, family income, and clinical need for program participation.
• Conducts clinical assessments to ensure appropriateness of placement into the program:
  Assessing Veterans through comprehensive bio-psychosocial evaluations to determine acuity status.
• Facilitates and provides access to appropriate treatment and supportive case management services to Veterans in HUD-VASH by coordinating Veteran-centered care across service providers, including VHA and non-VHA providers (individually or in groups).
• Provides informational / educational groups based on need or specific areas of focus, such as understanding the Public Housing Authority (PHA), the housing search process, tenancy rights and responsibilities, developing interpersonal skills, budgeting, and maintaining sobriety and/or harm reduction strategies.
• Assisting the Veteran with housing placement, beginning with the process of obtaining a HUD-VASH voucher from the PHA through the lease up process.
• Conducts regular home visits, based on the acuity level of the Veteran, to assess their housing stability, social and community integration, and recovery process.
• Obtains all required safety training, including training related to suicide risk reduction and working safely with high-risk Veterans, in both office and community settings, such as but not limited to those with severe mental illness and substance use disorder (SUD), those with a history of violence, and those with an involvement with the justice system.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary HCHV team, supporting holistic and recovery-based treatment.
• Provides interventions in reducing psychosocial stressors to lessen suicide risk and assist with safety planning in support of VHA mission and goal to reduce suicide for our Veterans.

Work Schedule:

Monday thru Friday 8:00am-4:30pm.

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus):
Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance):
Not Authorized.

EDRP Authorized:
Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact VHA.ELRSProgram

Support, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more.

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).

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience.

Parental Leave:
After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy:
After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement:
Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.

Insurance:
Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework:
Not Authorized.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

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Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized.