Social Worker - BHIP Care Coordinator

Allied Health Professional

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Conducts brief assessments that may include assessing high risk factors, including suicidal and homicidal ideation, acute needs for VHA or community-based services, and to determine care coordination and treatment needs of Veterans.
• Provides consultation/education to Veterans and families on VA resources (including self management tools), community resources, Advance Directives, VA benefits, and options for community care as appropriate.
• Serves as the mental health treatment coordinator for their assigned BHIP team, thereby serving as the primary clinical resource/point-of-contact for Veterans and other team/staff members.
• Coordinates care including serving as an advocate on behalf of the Veterans on BHIP teams, including serving as an effective liaison between VA and community resources (including education and bidirectional communication) to ensure timely delivery of comprehensive and seamless mental health services.
• Completes comprehensive Veteran-centered, recovery-focused treatment plans and updates as appropriate/required.
• Participates in program planning and development, advising the supervisor of shifting trends with care coordination needs and caseloads and identifying the need for making recommendations on program procedures and/or policy changes based upon work experiences.
• Monitors the efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness, quality of services offered within the program area.
• Reviews relevant data, assesses the data, develops, and implement ideas for improvement.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule:

Monday - 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 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 Available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 92637-A

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized