The Senior Social Worker provides crisis-focused psychosocial and mental health assessments in the Emergency Department, ensuring warm handoffs to appropriate levels of care. Duties include multidisciplinary treatment planning, individual and family counseling, crisis intervention, and evidence-based group treatment. The position also supports Acute Psychiatry coverage and reports onsite to the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center.
VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU The clinical duties of this position include providing discharge planning, crisis intervention, and short-term evidence-based, solution-focused interventions to Veterans and their family members, significant others, and caregivers within the Emergency Department. Additionally, the position provides coverage and delivers evidence-based group treatment interventions on the Acute Psychiatry Unit.
Major duties include, but are not limited to: Independently conduct psychosocial/mental health assessments of Veterans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, the Veteran, family members, caregivers, and/or significant others. The goal of the assessment is to identify needs and formulate a treatment/discharge plan to meet those needs.
Develop discharge plans through collaboration with the Veteran, family members/caregiver, and collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. Establish plans, goals and evaluates outcomes of interventions for a wide variety of individuals from various socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds.
Complete crisis assessments, develop and execute crisis management plans in a timely, effective and efficient manner, to include the VA Suicide Risk ID processes and reporting of abuse, neglect and/or exploitation to appropriate State agency. Educate the Veteran, their family members, significant others and/or caregiver of all the options available to them to live in the least restrictive environment of care.
Provide individual and group evidence-based therapies and treatment appropriate to level of licensure to Veterans and their families/caregivers. Therapeutic interventions are reviewed regularly. As appropriate, act as a consultant to other VA interdisciplinary team members and medical residents regarding psychosocial and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) concerns on social work practice, VA policy, and procedures.
Provide education regarding VA/community programs and resources. Provide referrals for Veterans as needed. Document all Veterans, family contacts and encounters in the electronic medical record using appropriate formats and templates within the designated timeframe according to policy. Establish and maintain positive, professional working relationships with employees, volunteers, consumers, internal and external stakeholders, and community partnerships.
Work Schedule: 1:30pm - 12am, Saturday through Tuesday Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 50675F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
thomas.ellis4@va.gov · 713-791-1414 X149983
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $100090 – $130120/yr.
This position requires a Other security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-11-16.
This position is open under the 'Fed Competitive' hiring path.
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