0SP1018 Clinical Caseworker, Senior Clinical Caseworker, LMSW, LCSW Blair 2 SORTS

This position is located at 1016 West Columbia Street in Farmington, MO at the Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center, a 348-bed Joint Commission accredited long-term care psychiatric hospital operated by the Missouri Department of Mental Health. The center provides adult inpatient mental health services and sex offender rehabilitation services, utilizing an interdisciplinary team approach.

About the role

Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center is seeking Master's Level Social Workers for licensed professional positions accountable for providing clinical casework services to persons with mental illness and/or developmental or physical disabilities. Responsibilities include compiling comprehensive case histories, participating in admission, social diagnosis, prognosis, progress review, research, community placement, and aftercare planning with an interdisciplinary team and other service agencies.

This is also a professional position assigned to a program for persons with mental illness or developmental or physical disabilities, accountable for assisting professional clinical staff by securing social and environmental information from clients and their families through interviews and home visits, and compiling case histories.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical casework services to persons with mental illness and/or developmental or physical disabilities.
• Compile comprehensive case histories concerning clients’ social, environmental, and economic backgrounds for use by medical and other professional treatment staff.
• Participate in admission, social diagnosis, prognosis, progress review, research, community placement, and aftercare planning with an interdisciplinary team and other service agencies.
• Apply a variety of techniques and methods in the areas of assessment, planning, and individual and group therapy.
• Assist professional clinical staff by securing social and environmental information from clients and their families through interviews and home visits.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the ethical considerations involved in the practice of licensed clinical social work.
• Knowledge of methods, principles, practices, and techniques of casework, group work, client-centered advocacy, community organization, research, psychotherapy, and other clinical skills as they apply to intervention programs for persons with mental illness and/or developmental or physical disabilities.
• Ability to understand medical and treatment records, progress notes, and other related information.
• Knowledge of individual, family, and group behavior; current social and economic challenges; and availability of community resources.

Qualifications

• For LCSW: Licensure as a Clinical Social Worker.
• For CCW: Bachelor’s degree (substitutions may be allowed).

Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis for denying consideration to any applicant.

Benefits

• Licensure supervision provided as part of employment.
• BSW/MSW Practicum opportunities.
• Paid Continuing Education hours.
• Paid licensure tests and renewal fees.
• Loan repayment options available.
• Flexible work scheduling opportunities.
• Regular day shift work hours with no on-call schedule.
• Defined pension plan.
• Generous amounts of leave and holiday time.
• Eligibility for health insurance coverage.

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Pay

Salary range: $50,990.40 - $78,264.00.