Social Worker (PACT)

About the role

The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Social Worker is part of a comprehensive team delivering primary care to Veteran patients in a longitudinal rather than episodic fashion. The focus is on prevention, health promotion, coordination, and chronic disease management. The social worker often functions as a care coordinator with a panel of veterans to ensure healthcare meets the needs as defined by the veteran.

Responsibilities

• Utilize a Veteran-centric approach when providing interventions and counseling for Veterans, their family members, caregivers, and survivors.
• Assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of Veterans and their family members, and formulate and implement a treatment plan, identifying problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and assistance needed.
• Implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups to achieve treatment goals, requiring judgment and skill in utilizing supportive, problem-solving, or crisis intervention techniques.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships and communicate with clients, staff, and representatives of community agencies.
• Show fundamental knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures, including acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology.
• Independently conduct psychosocial assessments and treatment interventions to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds.
• Independently implement different treatment modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical, and social problems to achieve treatment goals.
• Provide 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.
• Serve as a liaison between Veterans and/or their families and VA and community resources to ensure thorough delivery of services.

Requirements

Basic Requirements:

• Citizenship: United States Citizen
• Education: Master's degree in social work from a CSWE-accredited school
• Licensure: Licensed or certified by a state to independently practice social work at the master's degree level

Qualifications

• Experience: One year of post-MSW experience equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the field of health care or other social work-related settings (VA or non-VA experience)
• Education: Doctoral degree in social work from a school of social work may be substituted for the required one year of professional social work experience in a clinical setting

Skills

• Ability to utilize a Veteran-centric approach when providing interventions and counseling for Veterans, their family members, caregivers, and survivors.
• Ability to assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of Veterans and their family members, and to formulate and implement a treatment plan, identifying the Veterans' problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and assistance needed.
• Ability to implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups to achieve treatment goals, requiring judgment and skill in utilizing supportive, problem-solving, or crisis intervention techniques.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and communicate with clients, staff, and representatives of community agencies.
• Fundamental knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures, including acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology.
• Independently conduct psychosocial assessments and treatment interventions to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds.
• Independently implement different treatment modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical, and social problems to achieve treatment goals.
• Provide 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.
• Serve as a liaison between Veterans and/or their families and VA and community resources to ensure thorough delivery of services.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-11. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is in the range of GS-9 to GS-11.

Schedule

Full-Time - Monday-Friday 7:30am to 4:00pm