Social Worker, Mental Health

Job Title

The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Social Worker provides comprehensive social work services to Veterans receiving outpatient services CVAHCS, as well as to their family members.

The PACT Social Worker performs the following duties:

• Screening/Assessment
  - In conjunction with the interdisciplinary treatment team, The PACT Social Worker screens and assesses the veteran's psychosocial needs and barriers in order to facilitate his or her discharge from the hospital.
• Treatment Planning/Goal Setting
  - From screening/assessment information, The PACT Social Worker determines realistic goals that consider such factors as the appropriate level of discharge care, the setting conducive to providing such care, the need for interventions to enhance caregiver support to allow for the least restrictive level of care, transportation options/barriers and the steps to obtaining resources that make the transition from the inpatient setting successful.
• Advance Directive Screening and completion
  - The PACT Social Worker will screen Veterans while in the outpatient setting to identify need to provide education and offer assistance with completing an advance directive.
• Referral to service providers
  - To facilitate the continuity of a veteran's recovery, the PACT Social Worker will arrange referrals to needed VA and/or community resources.
• Advocacy
  - The PACT Social Worker will advocate for the Veteran to ensure that he or she has access to all needed care and resources within VA and in the community.
• Crisis Intervention
  - The PACT Social Worker will assess and intervene in any medical or psychiatric crises presented by the veteran and participate in developing crisis management and safety plans to minimize the event of future crises.
• Supportive counseling
  - The PACT Social Worker will provide the veteran and his or her family/caregivers with time-limited, supportive counseling.
• Non-patient care responsibilities
  - The PACT Social Worker will enter all veteran/family contacts in the electronic medical record using appropriate formats and templates.
• The incumbent uses sound judgment and critical thinking and has strong teamwork and communication skills. In unusual and/or complex administrative and clinical problems, the incumbent initiates consultation with the supervisor.
• The incumbent is required to maintain current BLS certification and to remain current on all licensures. The incumbent will also be required to perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.
• The incumbent will provide case management to those who have been identified in the CCICM program.
• The incumbent will provide Whole Health education and facilitate related support groups as appropriate.
• Incumbent must possess and maintain a current valid state driver's license.

Monday
- Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm

Competitive salary and regular salary increases.

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.

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.

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

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

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