Social Worker

Social Worker Duties

Under the supervision of a licensed clinician, the Social Worker duties include working with a multidisciplinary team and interacting with Veterans, family members, significant others, community agencies, VA and non-VA providers in addressing Veteran homelessness. Under the supervision of a licensed clinician, the social Worker duties include and are not limited to:

• Provide a wide range of services, including assessments, referrals, short-term case management, advocacy, service coordination, and linkage with VA and community resources.
• Provide a full range of social work services within commonly accepted standards of social work practice and with clinical supervision, which includes case work, individual family and group counseling, discharge, planning, case management and other services as appropriate.
• Evaluate and assess veterans at risk of danger to self and/or others and utilize the appropriate emergency channels within the VA system or local community dispatch agents to address the crisis.
• Provide consultation services to other VA staff regarding the psychological needs of homeless Veterans and the impact of psychosocial needs of homeless Veterans and the impact of psychosocial problems on healthcare, adherence to treatment, and housing plans.
• Maintain a level of productivity and quality consistent with the complexity of the assignment and consistent with Social Work standards, Joint Commission Standards, and VA professional standards.
• Perform timely accountability functions: 1) document all contacts with veterans in the electronic health records charts; 2)complete statistical and other reports in accordance with VA CERS and respective professional discipline service policies.
• Assist with, develop, and/or facilitate development and implementation of site-specific social work programming.
• Participate in conducting team conferences to promote professional development, training, and coordination of service delivery.
• Complete mandatory service line related trainings as assigned or offered.
• Complete National Call Center for Homeless Veteran hotline calls and document in the patient's clinical record utilizing CPRS.
• Support the mission, policies, and procedures of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the appropriate Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN), and the facility.
• Participates in acquiring clinical supervision by receiving supervision from a Licensed Clinical Social worker and will meet the time frame required for licensure. Once licensed in California, provide clinical supervisions to unlicensed social workers.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 7:30 am-4:00 pm

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases

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)

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: Ad hoc, may be available after 90 days of employment

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 00000