Senior Social Worker

Allied Health Professional Duties

Responsible for data collection, administrative record keeping and monitoring patient or program clinical indicators, thresholds, and performance measurements.

Develops working relationships and agreements with other organizations and directly coordinates with the designated Public Housing Authorities (PHA) regarding housing voucher application and award process for each veteran.

Responsible to review the agreements between Section 8 landlords, PHAs, and the VA to establish appropriate referral sites for placements.

Establishes, implements, and maintains referral and screening procedures for potential HUD-VASH veteran participants that meet national policy as well as the needs of medical center mental health services and residential programs.

Recognizes program eligibility, prioritization of subsets of the homeless veteran population, requirements of the PHAs, and other policy, regulation, or law pertaining to program administration.

Develops the screening procedures to involve a multidisciplinary team approach and is responsible to ensure criteria and procedures are maintained.

Provides referral to VA medical and mental health inpatient and outpatient treatment and to other VA services including VA benefits, as well as community-based social services and other non-VA entitlement programs.

Provides referrals or consults, or in some cases direct admission of the Veterans prior to HUD-VASH participation, from other VA programs including community-based residential treatment.

Establishes procedures and coordinates the screening and admission process for the HUD-VASH program by developing and maintaining criteria that recognizes program eligibility, prioritization for program acceptance, and requirements of the PHAs.

Develops psychosocial treatment plans, actively involving the Veteran and their family or significant others, in coordination with interdisciplinary team members, based on the psychosocial including goals for clinical treatment using known resources.

Assists Veterans in maintaining appointments at VA medical centers and other community agencies for medical, psychiatric, substance abuse, vocational and other services consistent with veteran's goals associated with healthy independent living.

Refers Veterans to appropriate VA and other government/community services- Including local shelters, food banks, employment services, veteran's and social security applications.

Provides direct mental health and substance abuse services for Veterans and family members or significant others in support of the veteran's treatment.

Maintains treatment plans based on clinical assessment for each veteran which are reviewed quarterly with updates as needed.

Receives and completes consults requesting services from interdisciplinary team members and from other mental health professional on complex, difficult cases using advanced practice skills and expertise.

Establishes a continuing relationship with the veteran, evaluating progress towards goals and adjusting the treatment plan as appropriate.

Directs/coordinates clinical and psychosocial services and is accountable for the overall effectiveness of the services provided.

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

Compressed/Flexible: Authorized

Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (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). 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: Available; Ad-hoc

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 25491-F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized