Senior Social Worker- HUD VASH

Department of Veterans Affairs•Grand Junction, CO

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About The Position

The incumbent in this position functions as a Case Manager for VA Western Colorado Health Care System (VAWCHCS) HUD-VASH Program. The HUD-VASH Program falls within the Care Management and Social Work Service Line. HUD-VASH is an intensive case management program for chronically homeless veterans aimed at providing psychosocial services to veterans while preparing for and residing in stable housing through HUD's Section 8 voucher system.

Responsibilities

Establishes and maintains effective working relationships and communicates with Veterans, staff, and other parties as appropriate.
Serves as a liaison between Veterans and/or their families and VA and community resources to ensure thorough delivery of services.
Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing with people from varied backgrounds.
Utilizes knowledge of community resources, makes referrals to the community and other government agencies as appropriate, and coordinates services.
Facilitates action for community placements through collaboration with Veterans and their families as well as interdisciplinary treatment team members.
Provides consultation and education to Veterans and their families regarding community resources, VA benefits, and specialty programs.
Conducts psychosocial assessments and treatment interventions to a wide variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds.
Assesses psychosocial problems often at a time when the Veteran is experiencing crisis and provide short term and long-term solution-focused counseling with Veterans and/or their families.
Completes thorough assessments to determine the presenting problem, factors impacting the situation, and obstacles to treatment and/or follow through with recommended treatments.
Implements treatment modalities, provide educational classes, and/or supportive groups for Veterans and families.
Responds to referrals that typically originate from members of the interdisciplinary team, from Veterans and/or their families coming as walk-ins to seek assistance, and from community professionals.
Provides consultation to other treatment team and staff members regarding psychosocial needs of Veterans and/or their families.
Utilizes a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities in treatment or with specialized Veteran populations, including individual, group, and/or family counseling or psychotherapy, and advanced level psychosocial and/or case management.
Conducts a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations.
Provides case management services to Veterans and their families throughout the continuum of care.
Works in the community most of the time, away from main campus, without Social Work Supervision available when traveling and/or alone with a complex Veteran.
Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnoses and treatment within approved clinical privileges.
Uses various and appropriate theories and modalities in the specialized treatment of complex physical or mental illness.
Incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses.
Provides subject matter consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in the specialty area, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
Expands clinical knowledge in the social work profession, writes policies, procedures, and/or practice guidelines pertaining to working with Veterans experiencing or at-risk of experiencing homelessness.
Teaches and mentors staff and students in the specialty area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or for specialty certifications.