- Provides comprehensive social work coverage and direct patient care services to multiple inpatient and outpatient medical programs at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto Division.
- Works independently as an advanced practice senior social worker, licensed at the advanced practice level.
- Works in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team on a fast paced acute medical/surgical unit to develop timely and appropriate treatment and discharge plans.
- Provides services to Veterans with highly complex health and/or mental health problems who may be in medical or mental health crisis.
- Provides social work triage assessment, crisis intervention, brief counseling, and rapid referrals to VA and community resources.
- Provides discharge planning interventions including to homeless shelters or to return to origin.
- Coordinates with VA and community travel resources and is the liaison to on-site lodging including Defender's Lodge and Fisher House.
- Involved with decisions regarding hospital admission for Veterans with complex psychosocial needs.
- Provides and/or arranges for the delivery of services for Oncology and Hematology Clinics and several additional specialty outpatient clinics (i.e., Allergy, Andrology, Diagnostic Radiology Center, ENT, General Surgery, GU Oncology, Hematology, Interventional Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, and Urology).
- Evaluates and provides complex, multiple services to individuals and families with a variety of social, emotional and health problems related to their oncologic treatment.
- Works as a part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Provides and/or arranges for the delivery of services to include the following: Inpatient Critical Care (i.e. SMICU, MSICU and SIICU), Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Outpatient Surgery Service (OSS) and Outpatient Pain, Neurology, Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Cardiology and GI clinics.
- Provides social work triage assessment, crisis intervention, brief counseling, bereavement support, referrals to VA and community resources, and discharge planning.
- Provides comprehensive psychosocial assessments and facilitates advance directive discussions and long-term care discussions.
- Engages in program activities to improve quality of care, assure appropriate utilization, and policy and program development.
- Demonstrates the ability to design changes based on empirical findings.
- Maintains accurate statistics and prepares reports within specified deadlines as required, including length of stay, admitting diagnoses, psychosocial issues delaying discharges, disposition, etc. to track trends.
- Provide clinical supervision to medical social workers as well as guidance and consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients in medical settings, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills in acute care medicine.
- Demonstrates a high degree of responsibility and accountability, including knowledge of VA directives and policies and outside survey compliance.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
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Senior Social Worker - Palo Alto, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs
Description
Summary
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
Duties
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm
Telework: Available - Ad-hoc
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 000000
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized to highly qualified candidates
EDRP Authorized: Contact , the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Incumbent provides direct care social work services to Veterans with complex medical and mental health needs, who are inpatients or outpatients, when the primary social worker in that area of the medical section of social work is on leave, during periods of vacancy, or during periods of high demand for social work services. Incumbent is responsible for reviewing social work coverage needs on a daily basis and providing coverage as needed. Incumbent also serves as a consultant and subject matter expert for social work colleagues who are providing services to Veterans hospitalized in diverse acute care settings or being seen as outpatients in multiple specialty clinics. Manages the daily operations of social work services within the Medicine Section of Social Work Service, develops policies and procedures for program operation and prepares reports and statistics for facility, VISN, and national use. The incumbent manages and controls the use of data related to these programs regarding day-to-day functioning, process improvement and program evaluation. Incumbent coordinates closely with the supervisory social worker for the Medicine Section of Social Work Service, the Utilization Management and Review Program, the DCOS for Acute Care Medicine, nursing case management, and the Office of Quality, Safety and Value.
Duties of the position include, but are not limited to:
