Senior Social Worker - HUD VASH

Job Title

Duties

Establishes and maintains effective working relationships and communicates with Veterans, staff, and other parties as appropriate.

Serves as a liaison between Veterans and/or their families and VA and community resources to ensure thorough delivery of services.

Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing with people from varied backgrounds.

Utilizes knowledge of community resources, makes referrals to the community and other government agencies as appropriate, and coordinates services.

Facilitates action for community placements through collaboration with Veterans and their families as well as interdisciplinary treatment team members.

Provides consultation and education to Veterans and their families regarding community resources, VA benefits, and specialty programs.

Conducts psychosocial assessments and treatment interventions to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds.

Assesses psychosocial problems often at a time when the Veteran is experiencing crisis and provide short term and long-term solution-focused counseling with Veterans and/or their families.

Completes thorough assessments to determine the presenting problem, factors impacting the situation, and obstacles to treatment and/or follow through with recommended treatments.

Implements treatment modalities, provide educational classes, and/or supportive groups for Veterans and families.

Responds to referrals that typically originate from members of the interdisciplinary team, from Veterans and/or their families coming as walk-ins to seek assistance, and from community professionals.

Provides consultation to other treatment team and staff members regarding psychosocial needs of Veterans and/or their families.

Utilizes a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities in treatment or with specialized Veteran populations, including individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy, and advanced level psychosocial and/or case management.

Conducts a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations.

Provides case management services to Veterans and their families throughout the continuum of care.

Works in the community most of the time, away from main campus, without Social Work Supervision available when traveling and/or alone with a complex Veteran.

Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnoses and treatment within approved clinical privileges.

Uses various and appropriate theories and modalities in the specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness.

Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses.

Provides 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.

Expands clinical knowledge in the social work profession, writes policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to working with Veterans experiencing or at-risk of experiencing homelessness.

Teaches and mentors staff and students in the specialty area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or for specialty certifications.

Work Schedule:

Monday-Friday; 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).

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:
Ad-hoc May Be Available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 57895A

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized