Social Worker-Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply. PRINCIPALES MISSIONS : Social Worker is assigned to the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC). The PRRC provides contemporary psychiatric programs and services, training and education, collaboration, and advocacy, with system-wide impact. The center provides comprehensive and intensive services to the seriously mentally ill (SMI) Veteran population and their families. The patient caseload is complex based on the severity of the mental illness, co morbidities, and resistance to standard treatments. Treatment interventions are innovative and highly individualized. The PRRC Social Worker will work with the interdisciplinary team and provides evaluation/consultation, psychosocial assessments, and referrals to various community agencies and hospital services to patients enrolled in the PRRC. The PRRC Social Worker will meet with participants to assist them in identifying and developing their goals. Working collaboratively with the participant, they will establish an Individual Recovery Plan (IRP) to attain these goals. The PRRC Social Worker will be required to demonstrate teaching and group facilitation skills such as motivation-based strategies, interactive teaching, and cognitive-behavioral techniques. Performs insightful assessment of serious and complicated cases involving psychiatric illness and substance use. Makes professional decisions and recommendations for treatment. The social worker is experienced in making rapid assessments and developing crisis management plans. The social worker is also skilled in communication techniques to de-escalate or bring comfort to Veterans in crisis. Social worker will have knowledge of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures. This includes acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses/injuries; common medications and their effects/side effects; and medical terminology. Consults with other specialists in planning treatment for Veterans and with co-morbidities, and those who may be treated in other specialized programs. Provides psychosocial treatment to a wide variety of individuals from various socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, educational, and other diversified backgrounds. This requires knowledge of human development and behavior (physical and psychological), and the differential influences of the environment, society, and culture. Actively participate as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team which includes working with the Veteran/family in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team members to develop and implement a recovery plan. Demonstrates acceptance, interest, encouragement, and selective use of questioning, explanation, and guidance in working with veterans to help them explore their problems. Employs Social Work methods and techniques to maintain a therapeutic relationship that will help the veteran work toward the best way of dealing with his/her problems. Exercises professional control over the therapeutic relationship so the patient may constructively express feelings yet retains maximum use of his/her capacities for responsible self-direction. Demonstrates ability to assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of patients and their family members, and to formulate and implement a treatment plan, identifying the patient's problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and assistance needed. Provides clinical services to Veterans and family members/significant others in support of the Veteran's treatment Facilita

Salaire : $83,023 – $107,936/Per Year | Avantages : http://www.vacareers.va.gov/why-choose-va/benefits/index.asp

The VA Orlando Healthcare System provides you with outstanding health care, trains America's future health care providers, and conducts important medical research. We provide you with health care services at 12 locations serving east central Florida. Facilities include our Orlando VA Medical Center and 11 community-based outpatient clinics in Clermont, Daytona Beach, Deltona, Kissimmee, Orlando, Palm Bay, Port Orange, Tavares, Viera, and Winter Park. We also have a mobile care unit that is based at our Winter Park VA Clinic for Veterans who are unable to visit our hospital or outpatient clinics. To learn more about the services each location offers, visit the VA Orlando health services page. The VA Orlando Healthcare System is one of the leading health care systems serving Veterans in the VA Sunshine Health Care Network. We're an innovative care center within Health Service Area (HSA) 2.3. At Orlando VA Medical Center, we conduct research to discover knowledge, develop VA scientists an