Senior Social Worker- Home Based Primary Care

This senior social worker is assigned to HBPC with responsibility to provide direct services for adult and geriatric veterans and their families. Due to the frontier nature of the service area and level of staffing the HBPC Senior Social Worker works in the community, traveling some distance alone to meet with Veterans enrolled in HBPC program. PRINCIPALES MISSIONS : VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU -Receives and completes consults from interdisciplinary teams and other social workers on complex, difficult cases, using advanced practice skills and expertise. Incumbent also provides consultation to referral sources and is responsible for developing and maintaining professional standards of practice and educating others regarding such. -Completes psychosocial assessments; interviews veteran and family members and/or significant others to establish facts about the veteran's unique situation. -Develops an assessment of the veteran in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment teams, the veteran, family members and significant others, whenever possible. -Develops psychosocial treatment plans in collaboration with the HBPC interdisciplinary team, including goals for psychosocial clinical treatment. The social worker uses known available resources and the initial assessment of the veteran's likelihood to accept differing types of assistance to make initial and continuing decisions regarding use of VA and non-VA services and referrals. -Provides independent consultation and makes recommendations to the interdisciplinary team regarding the course of treatment. -Provides the patient, caregivers, and/or family members with ongoing supportive counseling. -Participates in discharge planning with other disciplines and will be responsible for ensuring that discharge plans are executed in a manner that is timely and appropriate. -Provides individual, family and group counseling as appropriate. -Provides consultation/education to veterans and families on community resources, advance directives and VA benefits. -Acts as a consultant to other team/staff members. -Provides consultation/education to medical residents on social work practice and VA policy and procedure. -Acts as liaison between VA and community resources, to include marketing and public relation duties as needed. -Provides case management to veterans and families, as needed, throughout the continuation of care. -Provides a full range of social work services within commonly accepted standards of social work practice which includes case work, individual, family and group counseling, discharge planning, case management and other services as appropriate. -Provides wellness/prevention education and facilitate Patient/family support groups as appropriate. -Coordinates treatment and communicate with the care lines to facilitate continuity of care for veterans. -Participates in committee assignments, as deemed necessary by the service manager. -Maintains data and statistical compilations to comply with JCAHO, VA and medical center policy and procedures. -Assists patients and their significant others with coping and dealing with the loss and grief experiences in disability, terminal illness and death. -Documents social work interventions and activities in patient's clinical record utilizing CPRS and ensure appropriate hand off when transferring of patient care. -Completes Suicide Risk assessments and assists Veterans with developing Suicide Safety Plans, consults with and keeps the Suicide prevention Office informed as appropriate for Veterans considered at risk for Suicide. -Acts as an advocate when it serves the best interest of the veteran/family. -Experienced in making rapid assessments and developing crisis management plans to maintain the veteran in a medical foster home. In the event of an alleged abuse case, medical or psychiatric emergency, the medical center policy will be followed. -Ensures the interdisciplinary team is kept informed of any

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OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise - "To care for him who shall have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans? Interested in a career that offers a true work-life balance? Look no further! The Sheridan VA Medical Center offers a balance of professional and clinical complexity that stimulates growth yet, it also allows the professional an opportunity to enjoy life outside of work. If you are interested in a career that offers an integrated patient-centered approach while providing compassionate and state of the art care to Veterans, we welcome you to apply. The VA is located on the historic 296 acres of Fort Mackenzie, within the city of Sheridan, serving as the halfway mark between Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore. The area offers outdoor recreation to include horseback, ba