Social Worker-Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program; BHIP

Job Title

BHIP Social Worker

The BHIP Social Worker interviews Veterans and their family members/significant others to establish facts about the Veteran's situation, presenting problems and their causes, and the impact of such problems on the Veteran's functioning and health as part of a comprehensive psychosocial assessment. Interprets and explains VA's treatment and benefit programs. Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• The incumbent reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment identifying needs and strengths.
• Effectively uses professional skill, objectivity, and insight.
• Uses advanced clinical training, insight, and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options.
• Assesses high risk factors, acuity, and need for services.
• The incumbent has the ability to serve Veterans who tend to have frequent and severe crises, lack family or an adequate community support network, be poor at self-monitoring, and frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, or have significant deficits in coping skills and require continuing professional psychosocial support.
• The incumbent provides referral to VA medical and mental health treatment and to other VA services including VA benefits, as well as community-based social services and other non-VA entitlement programs.

Work Schedule:

Monday through Friday, 08:00am - 04:30pm

Telework:
Ad-hoc/Situational-Occasional, Non-routine

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position

Functional Statement #: 81610F, 82509F