Social Worker

Social Worker

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 healthcare providers in addressing Veteran homelessness. Under the supervision of a licensed clinician, the Social Worker duties include and are not limited to:

• Provide HUD-VASH case management to Veterans and families in the HUD-VASH program. Case management is defined as the provision of services by VA clinical staff to homeless Veterans and includes all activities to provide appropriate treatment and maintain Veterans in stable housing.
• Perform regular home visits of HUD-VASH apartments to ensure that Veterans reside in environments that foster independence and safety in the community.
• Verify the Veteran's status, eligibility for VA medical care, and eligibility of program participation.
• Provide a full range of services within commonly accepted standards of practice with includes case work, individual, family and group counseling, discharge planning, case management and other services as appropriate.
• Conduct psychosocial assessments to determine needs of Veterans and family members.
• Coordinate care including serving as an advocate on behalf of the Veterans to ensure comprehensive service delivery. The Social Worker links and refers Veterans to the VA Medical Center, VA Regional Offices, and/or community agencies.
• Provide consultation/education to Veterans and families on community resources, Advance Directives and VA benefits
• Provide wellness/prevention education and facilitates Veteran/family support groups as appropriate.
• Provide psychoeducation on activities of daily living, budgeting, recovery goals to sustain housing.
• Responsible for reviewing agreements between landlords, Public Housing Authorities, and the VA in establishing appropriate referral sites for HUD-VASH placements. She/He works closely with property managers and/or Landlords and communicates needs or issues when they arise if the Veteran provides consent to release private information.
• Collaborate with VA Medical Center multi-disciplinary teams and community agencies to strive for developing more effective and efficient ways of delivering healthcare services to Veterans in the HUD-VASH Program through coordination of treatment and communication.
• Acts as a consultant to other team/staff members and takes a lead clinical role with case consultation.
• Responsible for collecting and submitting HUD-VASH Program participant data as outlined by CERS and Homeless Operational Management and Evaluation System (HOMES) policies.
• Comply with criminal conflict of interest laws and Executive Branch Standards of conduct to avoid conflicts of interest. The Social Worker fulfills ethical responsibilities to Veterans, colleagues, and VA in accordance with relevant discipline Code of Ethics, VHA Code of Ethics, and local Ethics policies, which includes but is not limited to compliance with all laws and regulations related to confidentiality and release of information and protecting Veterans' personal identifying information.
• Responsible for following local policy and Standard Operating Procedures for the HUD- VASH Program. This includes following policies and documentation requirements as required for CARF and Joint Commission accreditation.
• Must be able to operate a government furnished vehicle for the purposes of assisting Veterans with obtaining and maintaining housing

Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday. 8 am-4:30 pm

Telework: Ad hoc. May be available after 90 days of employment

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

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