Senior Social Worker

Job Title

Allied Health Professional

Duties

Total Rewards of an Allied Health Professional Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide psychosocial assessment and intervention for each inpatient admission
• Coordinate care for patients with multiple disabilities, health conditions, and clinical needs including extended hospitalizations, new SCI/D injuries, and acute illnesses
• Individual and family counseling for SCI/D veterans who often have poly-traumatic injuries, traumatic brain injuries, and post-traumatic stress disorder
• Conduct interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings on a weekly basis, which consist of physicians, registered nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, recreational therapists, prosthetics, psychologists, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists
• Coordinate complex discharge plans including multiple disciplines, community agencies, spoke sites, support programs, and caregivers for fragile and dependent patients with complex medical needs
• Initiate consults, placement or community agency applications, and secure specialized treatment facilities for often very complicated medical conditions (total care, vent/trach care, extended wound care, amputation, quadriplegia, paraplegia, urological care, bowel care, respiratory care, rehabilitation)
• Provide social work expertise with specialized programs such as, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, Bridge to Home, Bridge to Independence, and Sub-Acute Rehab

Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m.- 3:30 p.m.

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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).

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.

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.

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

Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

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This is not a virtual position.

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