Social Worker (Residential Care Section Program)

Job Title

High-level duties and responsibilities include:

• Develops and implements screening and psychosocial assessments for veterans requesting or admitted to residential care.
• Provides special attention to veterans referred through intensive services needing specialized case management to prevent return to inadequate housing, financial instability, resource insufficiency, and lack of productive community activity.
• Evaluates treatment assignments to determine progress and revise goals as needed in the patient's treatment plan.
• Coordinates discharge planning, initiates placements and referrals critical to maintaining stable post-residential care functioning.
• Focuses on problems likely to result in patient deterioration, rehospitalization, or return to inadequate housing and/or unemployment.

Total Rewards of an Allied Health Professional

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

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: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized