Senior Social Worker

Job Title

Social Worker

Treatment Planning/Goal Setting
- The social worker is responsible for developing the treatment planning. Resource Usage/Development
- Responsible for using the current behavioral medicine resource file of VA and community social service programs and enhancing the content to the benefit of Veterans. Advocacy
- Understands the complexity of bureaucracy and will act as an advocate when it serves the best interest of the Veteran/family. Crisis Intervention
- Provides crisis intervention, stabilization, and follow-up for Veterans and significant others including evaluation and management of suicidal/homicidal patients and other psychiatric emergencies. Education/Health promotion and prevention
- Provides education related to VA and community resources, entitlements, Coordination of non-institutional and institutional services
- Reviews the progress notes from the other providers to accurately determine the strengths and limitations of each Veteran being. Supportive counseling
- Provides the Veterans and their caregivers with ongoing supportive counseling. Content development
- Develops content for individual, marriage, family, couples and group therapy. Resource Usage/Development The social worker will refer the Veteran to needed services as determined by Veteran's needed level of care. Advocacy
- Social worker understands the complexity of bureaucracy and will act as an advocate when it serves the best interest of the Veteran/family. Crisis Intervention
- Social worker is experienced in making rapid assessments and developing crisis management plans for admission to residential and dual disorder inpatient programs and detoxification services. Education/Health promotion and prevention
- Social worker provides education related to VA and community resources, entitlements, Advance Directives/Living Will and will refer Veterans/families/couples to the appropriate service provider for identified health education needs. Coordination of non-institutional and institutional services
- The social worker will review the progress notes from the other providers to accurately determine the strengths and limitations of each Veteran being referred for SUD/Marriage/Family/Couples counseling services. The social worker will work with other disciplines to coordinate the most effective care that can be provided. Supportive counseling
- Social worker will provide the Veterans and their caregivers with ongoing supportive counseling. The purpose of such counseling is to deal with the psychosocial impact of coping with addiction, relapse, recovery, and interpersonal relationships. Content development
- Social worker will develop content for individual, marriage, family, couples and group therapy to obtain SUD goals and objectives. Content will be open for supervisory review in keeping with accepted professional standards. Therapy
- Social worker will conduct individual, family, and group therapy on an outpatient basis to deliver the needed services to the Veteran. Discharge planning and aftercare
- Social worker works with Veteran/family/couple in identifying community-based self-help groups and other resources to continue substance abuse recovery, and to strengthen marriage/family/couples' relationships. Record keeping
- Maintains records which are in keeping with VA and JCAHO standards. Service training
- Social worker trains and educates other service providers on substance abuse disorder recognition and services offered by SUD. Patient compliance
- Social worker will order drug and alcohol screens to ensure patient compliance within the SUD program.

8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Monday to Friday

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)

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)

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