Senior Social Worker

4 weeks ago


Gainesville, Florida, United States Veterans Health Administration Full time
Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Social Work:


The incumbent is primarily responsible for providing assessment, discharge planning, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and discharge planning services to Veterans and their families in the emergency department.

Over days, nights and weekend hours, the incumbent will cover the Gainesville Emergency Department as well as the Lake City VAMC Emergency Department.

The Lake City location is covered by virtual care technology. The incumbent is part of a team of licensed clinical social workers who cover the Emergency Department on site.
Based on staffing and coverage needs, incumbent will be cross trained to cover Acute Psychiatry and Acute Medicine/Surgery. Work entails working with patients presenting with psychosocial, mental health and medical needs.

Work requires a high level of skill in assessing, developing treatment/discharge plans and use of crisis intervention skills for highly complex psychosocial, medical, and mental health needs of Veterans presenting to the Emergency Department and admitted to the acute care settings.


The social worker will exercise mature professional judgment and use a wide range of clinical skills in independently providing clinical psychosocial, case management, and mental health services to Veterans and their family members/caregivers.

The social worker requires knowledge of a broad range of psychosocial, medical, and mental health issues. The incumbent must ensure appropriate protocol is followed for VA suicide risk assessment interventions. The incumbent must be familiar with the latest version of DSM and understand how to appropriately diagnosis. The social worker may provide psychosocial education, group and individual counseling,/psychotherapy appropriate to level of licensure.

This work may occur in the Emergency Department or on other units, to include Acute Psychiatry and Acute Medicine/Surgery within the medical center.

The incumbent works with an interdisciplinary team. It is important the incumbent is a team player with excellent communication and documentation skills.

It is important the incumbent is highly flexible as the work can vary day to day due to the nature of the Emergency Department and Acute Care Units.

Office space is shared among multiple staff members.

The incumbent will provide coverage as needed for co-workers, which may include providing social work coverage through virtual care options to other locations of the health system.

The social worker may also participate in the student training program as approved by supervisor, as well as, serve on facility, VISN, and national committees and workgroups.

Tours of Duty include evenings and weekends, but generally include 4- 10 hour days.

Other duties include but are not limited to:

Patient Care Referrals
Assessment/Diagnosis/Treatment
Care Coordination and Case Management
Advance Directives/End of Life Planning
Community Resource/Referrals
Process Improvement

Work Schedule
:

Thursday to Sunday 11am-9:
30pm OR Saturday to Tuesday 1:
30pm to 12:
00am

Compressed/Flexible
:

Yes, as listed here

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus):

Not authorized

Telework
:

Not available

Virtual:

This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #
:
51921F

Additional Benefits
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)

Pay:

Competitive salary and regular salary increases

Paid Time Off:

37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year 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.



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