Social Worker (Inpatient Medicine)

Inpatient Medicine Social Worker

The Inpatient Medicine social worker delivers timely, comprehensive clinical social work and case management services for Veterans in inpatient medicine, surgery, and the ICU. Working as part of an interdisciplinary team, they coordinate care with other health professionals and provide psychosocial interventions and referrals to support effective discharge planning. The incumbent is responsible for a variety of duties, including but not limited to, the following:

• Completing timely admission screening/health behavior assessments.
• Providing education on advance directive planning and assisting with completion of advanced directives.
• Formulating a treatment plan and goal setting for discharge planning.
• Supporting the highest level of functioning of the Veteran including discharge to independent living, when possible, or long-term care facility when a Veteran requires skilled nursing facility.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients, staff, and representatives of community agencies.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with people from varied backgrounds.
• Develops working relationships and agreements with other organizations having responsibilities for the same patient population. Maintains a current and productive network of referral resources. Make provision for referral services from other agencies, community resources (i.e., transition or halfway houses, shelters, etc.), and other Governmental agencies to resolve problems.
• Knowledge of community resources, how to make appropriate referrals to community and other governmental agencies for services, and ability to coordinate services.
• Implementing a variety of different treatment modalities when working with individuals, families and groups to achieve treatment goals.
• Completing timely documentation and approved methods for management of records (paper, electronic, electronic systems).
• Providing consultation services to new social workers, social work graduate students and other staff about the psychosocial needs of patients and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and compliance with treatment.
• Providing case management and care coordination to facilitate appropriate delivery of health care services, incorporating complex multiple causations in differential diagnosis and treatment of Veterans, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnostic impressions within scope.
• Assist with coverage and overseeing Veteran's care of peers on leave, as well as other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm or 8:00am - 4:30pm

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): 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

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: Adhoc Only

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 55822F/55823F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized