On Call Licensed Social Worker - Mental Health 169

Preferred

• Previous experience with population to be served and/or work in a similar program setting
• Two (2) years of post-licensure experience in order to provide clinical supervision to license eligible staff

• Essential functions
• Demonstrates the Telecare mission, purpose, values, and beliefs in everyday language and contact with internal and external stakeholders
• Conducts psychosocial assessments, treatment planning, group and individual clinical service, case coordination, and documentation
• Independently completes clinical assessments
• Establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with members served
• Ensures provision of needed clinical services to assigned members served
• Coordinates ongoing treatment within the program and with outside agencies
• Provides individual and group therapy
• Documents all treatment provided in a thorough and consistent manner
• Collaborates with other staff in the discharge planning process and makes linkages to community services for members served
• Actively participates in multidisciplinary team meetings and recovery planning meetings
• Demonstrates knowledge of de-escalation techniques and crisis communication and management
• Serves as a clinical consultant to recovery team members
• If employed at Inpatient program, must assist with restraint of members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training
• If employed at Outpatient program, must evade members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training

Duties and Responsibilities

may be added, deleted, and/or changed at the discretion of management.

• SKILLS
• Ability to complete social histories, risk assessments, mental health status exams, and plans of care
• Ability to work collaboratively with physicians, nurses, and rehabilitation therapists
• Ability to form a therapeutic alliance with members served and families
• Sufficient medical knowledge to assess the needs of members served
• Skills in conducting group therapy
• Ability to advocate for the members served in other health delivery systems

Physical demands

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee is occasionally required to sit, stand, walk, bend, push, pull, squat, kneel, and lift and carry items weighing 25 pounds or less as well as to frequently reach, twist, and do simple and power grasping. The position requires manual deviation, repetition and dexterity.

EOE AA M/F/V/Disability

Acute LVN on call - Behavioral Health 169