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As a Social Worker at the VA Long Beach Community Living Center you will provide social work services to the Veteran population enrolled for extended care treatment, rehabilitation, geriatric outpatient services, and/or residing at the Community Living Center. Services include provision of high-quality case management, clinical treatment, advocacy, and coordination of linkages to other appropriate VA or community service providers and/or agencies as needed by the client.
Learn more about this agencyResponsibilities
- Assessing Veterans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team, the Veteran, family members and significant others
- Developing treatment plans with Veterans based on initial assessment
- Establishing achievable goals with Veterans /family and developing and updating the treatment plan
- Collaborating with other service providers in reassessing Veterans' needs and educating the Veterans and/or caregivers of the available services
- Making rapid assessments and developing crisis management plans for admission to mental health inpatient programs
- Providing education related to VA and community resources, entitlements, Advance Directives/Living Will
- Reviewing the progress notes from the other providers to accurately determine the strengths and limitations of each Veteran being referred for mental health services
- Providing Veterans and their caregivers with ongoing supportive counseling to help them deal with the psychosocial impact of coping with chronic/disabling illness (es), onset of a catastrophic illness
- Entering all Veteran/family contacts in the electronic record using appropriate formats and templates in a complete, confidential, and professional manner to insure information on the patient is shared with other VA staff
- Establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with employees, volunteers, consumers and stakeholders within the VA and outside community agencies
Financial Disclosure Report: Not requiredTravel Required
Not required
Supervisory status
No
Promotion Potential
11
This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/585476200. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.