Social Worker (Patient Aligned Care Team)

Ativesite; Effingham, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Parental leave

Federal benefits

Telework possible

Job summary

The Department of Veterans Affairs' Marion VA Medical Center in Illinois is seeking a Social Worker for the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) to provide clinical services in the Primary Care Clinic and Community Based Outpatient Clinics.

The Social Worker will assess and treat psychosocial needs, participate in an interdisciplinary team, and coordinate care across the continuum for Veterans and their families, including group education and case management.

Qualifications

• Assess and treat complex psychosocial needs of Veterans and their families.
• Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with Veterans and their families.
• Provide psychosocial assessments to determine needs across the continuum of care.

Responsibilities

• Serve on the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) within primary care.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to develop and implement treatment goals.
• Provide case management and group education for Veterans and families.

Job description

Social Worker (Patient Aligned Care Team)

• Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

The Marion, Illinois VA Medical Center is seeking a Social Worker to serve on the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT). The PACT Social Worker provides clinical services in the Primary Care Clinic at the VA Medical Center and Community Based Outpatient Clinics.

Key Responsibilities

VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU The Patient Aligned Care Team is a comprehensive team that delivers primary care to Veterans in a longitudinal rather than episodic manner, with a focus on prevention, health promotion, care coordination, and chronic disease management.

Within this Veteran-centric model, the social worker often serves as a care coordinator for a panel of Veterans, ensuring that health care services align with the needs and preferences defined by each Veteran. Social workers are uniquely suited for this role through their education, training, and experience, which equip them to understand the person‑in‑environment perspective and the influence of family and community factors on Veterans' health care needs.

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include but not limited to: Assesses and treats complex psychosocial needs of Veterans and their families or significant others. Establishes and maintains effective therapeutic relationships with Veterans in the Primary Care Clinic and/or their families. Completes comprehensive psychosocial assessments to determine psychosocial functioning and identify the needs of Veterans and/or their families.

Actively participates as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team and collaborates with Veterans, their families, and team members in developing and implementing treatment goals and interventions. Understands and applies medical and mental health diagnoses, terminology, disability definitions, and treatment procedures, including those related to acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses; substance use disorders; and common medications and their effects or side effects.

Facilitates community placements by collaborating with Veterans, their families, and interdisciplinary treatment team members to ensure appropriate and timely placement. Independently implements treatment modalities and provides educational classes and/or supportive groups for Veterans and families, including shared medical appointments.

Provides consultation to other treatment team and staff members regarding the psychosocial needs of Veterans and/or their families and the impact of identified psychosocial issues on health care planning and treatment adherence. Provides case management services to Veterans and their families throughout the continuum of care. Adjusts tour of duty as necessary to accommodate the needs of Veteran patients.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

• Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience. Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
• Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement).
• Telework: Position may be eligible for ad-hoc Telework, at managers discretion.
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Requirements & Education

Grandfather Provision. The following is the standard grandfathering policy for all title38 hybrid qualification standards. Please carefully review the qualification standard to determine the specific education and/or licensure/certification/registration requirements that apply to this occupation.

All persons employed in VHA in this occupation on the effective date of this qualification standard are considered to have met all qualification requirements for the title, series and grade held, including positive education and licensure or certification that are part of the basic requirements of the occupation.

For employees who do not meet all of the basic requirements in this standard, but who met the qualifications applicable to the position at the time they were appointed to it, the following provisions apply: Such employees in an occupation that requires a licensure or certification, may be reassigned, promoted up to and including the full performance (journey) level, or changed to lower grade within the occupation, but may not be promoted beyond the journey level or placed in supervisory or managerial positions.

Employees who are appointed on a temporary basis prior to the effective date of the qualification standard may not have their temporary appointment extended or be reappointed, on a temporary or permanent basis, until they fully meet the basic requirements of the standard.

Employees initially grandfathered into this occupation, who subsequently obtain additional education and/or licensure/certification/registration that meet all of the basic requirements of this qualification standard must maintain the required credentials as a condition of employment in the occupation. If an employee who was retained in an occupation listed in 38 U.S.C.

§ 7401(3) under this provision leaves that occupation, the employee loses protected status and must meet the full VA qualification standard requirements in effect at the time of reentry to the occupation.

Physical Requirements: Light lifting (under 15 pounds); light carrying (under 15 pounds); straight pulling (1 hour); pushing (1 hour); walking (2 hours); standing (2 hours); ability for rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously; far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and in the other to 20/40; hearing (hearing aid permitted); working closely with others; working alone. Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.

Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.

For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $68018 – $106990/yr.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-10-05.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.