*** This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until January 30, 2025. The initial cutoff date for referral of eligible applications will be December 13, 2024. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as needed basis until positions are filled. ***
VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU
Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf
Social Work: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Social-Worker-Career-Flyer.pdf
- Responsible for building relationships, internally and externally, to ensure a common understanding of the COMPACT Act and how Veterans can utilize care and services through it.
- Ensures that the social work needs within each primary care clinic are met by maintaining positive working relationships with PACT teams and colleagues.
- Collaborates with community and other government agencies to provide education to Veterans about the COMPACT Act. Ensure coordination between health care providers and care managers in direct and community care provision of services related to COMPACT care.
- Conducts comprehensive transition planning from care in the community to the VA, as appropriate.
- Develops plans to support Veteran's acute mental health needs as well as a plan to address longer term needs and services.
- Conducts and completes psychosocial and behavioral health assessments in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team, the Veteran patient, caregivers, family members and significant others, as appropriate. The goal of the assessment is to highlight the Veteran's strengths, limitations, internal/external supports, and service needs to optimize the Veteran's functional status.
- Serves as an advocate for Veterans utilizing the COMPACT Act.
- Provides outreach to community and healthcare systems providing COMPACT care.
- Serves as a liaison with community agencies, assist Veterans (or caregivers) with referrals for services from community and government agencies and help coordinate these services, when appropriate.
- Serves as a singular point of contact for Veterans during episodes of COMPACT care and navigates between varying levels of care coordination and case management to ensure effective and efficient care to meet Veteran needs.
- Conducts psychosocial assessments and diagnoses mental health and psychosocial needs, making treatment planning recommendations as appropriate.
- Conducts and provides follow up care as indicated and needed.
- Monitors and tracks data related to COMPACT Act utilization and outcomes, as well as any associated performance measures or metrics that are identified .
- Develops appropriate standard operating procedures and documentation templates for the operations of COMPACT Act care across the health care system.
- Coordinates the review team for COMPACT Act clinical care reviews, to include multiple disciplines and expertise.
- Organizes workload and competing priorities.
Work Schedule: 8AM to 4:30PM Monday-Friday
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact
Michael.Campbell6@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance.
Learn more 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
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 58712-O
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Starting at $102,356 Per Year (GS 12)