Social Worker - Community Nursing Home Program (CNH)

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Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Establishes and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with veterans in the CNH program, as well as, with the facility staff and veteran's families.
• Completes independently a thorough psychosocial assessments to determine the psychosocial functioning and needs of Veterans and/or their families.
• Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team by collaborating with treatment team members in the mental health clinic, primary care clinic, and inpatient units when veterans are readmitted to the medical center for stabilization of psychiatric or medical conditions.
• Possess a working knowledge and experience in use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures, including acute, chronic and traumatic illnesses, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology.
• Facilitates discharge planning through collaboration with veterans and their families, as well as, facility staff and interdisciplinary treatment team members when veterans in the CNH Program are identified as needing alternative placement or when veterans request return to independent community living.
• Provides consultation and education to Veterans, their families, and residential care sponsors regarding community resources, VA benefits and specialty programs, and advance directives.
• Provides consultation to other treatment team and staff members as well as residential care sponsors regarding psychosocial needs of Veterans and/or their families and the impact of the identified psychosocial problems on the Veteran's health care planning, compliance with treatment, discharge planning, and ongoing adjustment to the residential care setting.
• Possess and demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing with people from varied backgrounds.
• Serves on committees, work groups, and task forces at the facility as deemed appropriate by the Nurse Manager of the office of community care and Chief of Social Work Services.

• Knowledge of community resources, how to make appropriate referrals to community and other governmental agencies for services, and ability to coordinate services.
• Ability to independently assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of patients and their family members and to formulate and implement a treatment plan, identifying the patient's problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills and assistance needed, in collaboration with the patient, family and interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Ability to independently conduct psychosocial assessments and provide psychosocial treatment to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational and other diversified backgrounds.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities and treatment procedures.
• Knowledge of psychosocial treatment and ability to independently implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical and social problems to achieve treatment goals.
• Ability to independently provide counseling and/or psychotherapy services to individuals, groups and families. Social workers must practice within the bounds of their license or certification.
• Ability to provide consultation services to other staff about the psychosocial needs of patients and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and compliance with treatment.
• Ability to independently evaluate his/her own practice through participation in professional peer review case conferences, research studies, or other organized means.

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm EST.

Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized

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