Senior Social Worker - Acute Medicine/Surgery

Department of Veterans Affairs

The Senior Social Worker is assigned to the acute medicine/surgery unit at the Gainesville VA Medical Center, located on site in Gainesville, Florida. The Senior Social Worker is responsible for providing assessment, discharge planning, and crisis intervention services to Veterans, their families/caregivers on the acute care medicine, surgery, neurology, intensive care inpatient units, emergency department and outpatient clinics.

• The Senior Social Worker is primarily responsible for providing psychosocial and mental health assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning/execution, care management, case management, crisis intervention and evidence-based psychotherapy services to Veterans, their family members and caregivers in within Acute Medicine-Surgery units. Duties for this position include but are not limited to: Receives referrals from a variety of sources to include triage, consults, walk-in visits, phone calls, and warm hand-offs from internal/external stakeholders. The Senior Social Worker is required to utilize available data sources to proactively identify patients for screening/triage, assessment, treatment planning, case management and care coordination. Provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences and serves as a liaison to family members/caregivers. The Senior Social Worker has working knowledge and experience in use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures. This includes acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses/injuries, mental health conditions, and common medical terminology. Independently conducts psychosocial and behavioral health/mental health assessments, can provide accurate diagnosis using most current version of the DSM. Measures outcomes of interventions to improve treatment services. The Senior Social Worker designs changes based on empirical/measurement-based care and other findings. Utilizes clinical knowledge in the social work profession, and writes policies, standard operating procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to the service delivery area. Proactively addresses advance directive education and facilitates completion and proper documentation and record scanning to ensure clear and accurate information regarding the Veterans' wishes are available in the electronic health record. Serves as a subject matter expert for clinical social work practice/processes within the Acute Medicine-Surgery units. Provides specialized consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients in the service delivery area, as well as role modeling effective social work practice skills. Provides orientation and training for new clinical social work staff. Provides licensure supervision for unlicensed staff to become licensed in accordance with State laws and VA policy/standard operating procedures. Teaches, mentors and coaches MSW students in specialty area and provides supervision for licensure and participates in the MSW student training program. Uses advanced practice knowledge and experience to assist with training front line staff as well as providing clinical supervision for unlicensed Social Workers. Required to travel on a regular basis to other locations of care within the North Florida / South Georgia Veterans Health System to carry out job duties/assignments, as well as, required to drive and/or travel using personal or government vehicle to other sites of care between the 2 main hospitals in Gainesville and Lake City or to community partners as necessary. Travel will be for long periods of time, up to three hours each way with traffic and expected at least 25% of work week. This position may include weekends and evening hours and requires the ability to make decisions and complete work assignments within the program area, with very limited or no direct supervision. Work Schedule: Friday to Monday 7:30am - 6:00pm (weekend shift - 4 10 hour shifts) Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not authorized Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position Functional Statement #: 51920F 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 (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. Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional

Read the full announcement on USAJOBS