Social Worker - Community and Outreach Services

Allied Health Professional

Total Rewards of an Allied Health Professional Duties include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for providing independent case management throughout the continuum of care for a caseload of Veterans in the HUD-VASH program.
• Provides a full range of clinical services to include case work, individual, family and group counseling, discharge planning, case management and other services as appropriate. Incumbent independently performs case finding functions and outreach, identifying and screening Veterans for current mental health status, housing status, access to resources, and other needs.
• Provides independent evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions, including individual, family, and group psychotherapy. Incumbent can measure outcomes of these interventions.
• Provides a full range of psychological assessment services and diagnoses mental disorders, particularly for complex or unusually difficult patients, many of whom have psychiatric and medical problems.
• Assumes complete professional responsibility for their clinical assessment findings, patient care decisions, and documentation.
• Evaluates their own practice through case conferences and other organizational means. Incumbent is an active participant in the development of treatment plans in collaboration with the Veteran/family and the interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Coordinates community-based services, including information and referral for additional services from other VA programs, other government programs and community agency programs.
• Independently identifies high-risk patients. Incumbent provides complex crisis intervention, clinical assessment and case management services, seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint.
• Coordinates family conferences and serves as liaison to family members.
• Working knowledge and experience in use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities and treatment procedures. This includes acute, chronic and traumatic illnesses/injuries, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology.
• Verifies the Veteran's status, and eligibility for program participation as defined and directed by Congress.

Work Schedule:

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

Compressed/Flexible:
May be Authorized

Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (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:
May be Approved Ad-hoc (Inclement Weather Only)

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position