Social Worker- Inpatient Mental Health

Job Title

The incumbent social worker serves in a full-time capacity within the Mental Health Service (MHS) at the John D Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit. The social worker is part of the Acute Mental Health (MH) Care Team on the Inpatient Mental Health Unit.

Duties

The duties include:

• Serving as a limited licensed independent practitioner (LLMSW) social worker as part of the Acute MH Care Services treatment team
• Performing triaging/screening as well as comprehensive psychosocial assessments, integrating input from the Veteran, their caregiver/family, VA records, and as appropriate outside records, as well as brief assessments when appropriate
• Providing case management interventions, used in the treatment of Veterans with cognitive, mood, anxiety, psychotic, trauma, substance, and other mental health, emotional and behavioral disorders
• Educating/linking Veterans and/or their caregivers about/with appropriate VA and community resources to address their needs
• Liaisoning/advocating on behalf of the treatment team and/or Veteran/caregiver between settings of care, both internal and external to the VA
• Providing patient and caregiver education, both in individual and group formats
• Providing motivational interviewing and supportive therapy, both in individual and group formats
• Providing crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint
• Coordinating family conferences
• Assessing the need for referral for more intensive and/or specialty mental health services
• Identifying high-risk patients and connecting with needed resources and services, as needed
• Consulting, collaborating, and coordinating with other staff who provide care (both inpatient and outpatient) to the Veteran
• Completing comprehensive Veteran-centered, recovery-focused treatment plans and updates as appropriate/required
• Completing clinical reminders
• Serving as an advocate for individualized treatment planning and recommendations
• Providing comprehensive and recovery-focused discharge planning services.
• Reviewing relevant data, assessing the data, developing, and implementing ideas for improvement
• Participating as a member of a treatment team on the inpatient MH unit. Collaborating with other members of the treatment team and all inpatient mental health staff.
• Assisting in providing as needed coverage of other Acute MH Section areas including but not limited to MH evaluation in the Emergency Department, intensive outpatient case management, community engagement, and high risk for suicide interventions.
• Other duties as assigned

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

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

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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)

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.

Functional Statement #: 91522-A

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized