Senior Social Worker (Women's Health)
Full-time
Senior Executive
1 week ago
Major duties include, but are not limited to: Serves as an advocate on.....
Major duties include, but are not limited to:
- Serves as an advocate on behalf of Women Veterans across Veterans Health Administration (VHA) by working closely with the Veteran Experience Office (Patient Advocate Office) to facilitate problem resolution and Women Veterans satisfaction.
- Improves care access and continuity.
- Works closely with the WVPM and WHMD to form the foundation of the Women's health team at the facility level.
- Provides expertise and guidance specific to Women Veterans for facility-wide strategic goals and objectives and executes comprehensive planning for women's health that improves the overall quality of care provided to Women Veterans and achieves program goals and outcomes.
- Assesses and actively facilitates for preventive care and health promotion.
- Promotes a safe and welcoming environment.
- Uses data sources to assess and evaluate the VAMC Women's program.
- Collaborates with fiscal, WVPM and facility leadership to advocate for resources to support programs to meet the needs of Women Veterans.
- Participates in the review of the physical environment including identifying deficiencies and opportunities for improvement and work with facility leadership, facility planner and other staff to ensure that new construction and renovations are appropriate to meet the needs of Women Veterans.
- Partners with special population coordinators and program managers to ensure the needs of Women Veterans are addressed across the health care system.
- Collaborates with various services to ensure the needs of Women Veterans are met in a comprehensive manner consistent with national policies to ensure that emergent and urgent care needs of Women Veterans are met in a comprehensive manner consistent with national policies; Medicine/Primary Care leadership and women's health primary care providers to provide programmatic consultation, mental health services and other specialty care services.
- Deals effectively with individuals or groups representing widely divergent backgrounds interests and point of view.
- Establishes and monitors production and performance priorities and standards for Women's health.
- Analyzes organizational and operational problems and develops and implements solutions that results in sound operations of the program.
- Provides direct patient care.
- Collaborates with facility leadership on cultural transformation to create a safe, secure and respectful environment for Women Veterans to receive care.
- Serves as a consultant for facility leadership across service lines.
- Participates on any required or appropriate Medical Center committee, task force, or executive body required by the position or requested by top management to promote the highest quality of health care delivery to Women Veterans.
- Maintains knowledge of VHA, network and facility's strategic goals related to the health of Women Veterans.
- Collaborates with WVPM and internal and external partners to ensure that timely access to necessary care in the community is provided.
- Collaborates with WVPM to ensure that high quality and gender-specific diagnostic services for women are available in a timely manner at all points of care and ensures processes are in place for timely patient notification and coordination of care as indicated.
- Translates management goals and objectives into well-coordinated and controlled work operations.
- Supports, develops and conducts a minimal of three outreach activities for each fiscal year.
- Enhances outreach and in-reach activities within VA and non-VA communities.
- Conducts outreach activities at the local level to increase awareness of Women Veterans' health services offered in VHA.
- Collaborates with facility and community stakeholders to develop a comprehensive outreach plan that includes increasing public awareness of services available for Women Veterans; networking to enhance community engagement with non-VA stakeholders and increasing market penetration.
- Develops and conducts education programs for Women Health providers and staff.
- Collaborates with the Education Department and/or Designated Learning Officer to identify and address training needs for facility staff specific to Women Veterans and promotes national and local educational programs for women's health providers and other staff
Work Schedule: 8:00am-4:30pm, Monday-Friday
Compressed/Flexible:Not authorized
Telework: Ad-Hoc
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 58275F
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
Starting at $97,146 Per Year (GS 12)
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