Clinical Social Worker - MSW

We’re looking for a Clinical Social Worker to collaborate with Primary Care Providers and a Collaborating Psychiatrist, delivering comprehensive treatment and care management for behavioral health.

Responsibilities

• Provides psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to diagnosis, illness, treatment, and life situation.
• Collaborates with all members of the multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive mental-health support for a designated caseload.
• Monitors patient progress using validated scales and clinical judgment; intervenes as necessary to ensure the plan of care is patient-focused, high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective.
• Provides brief interventions, psychoeducation, and direct care management to patients and families around issues related to diagnosis, illness, treatment, and life situation.
• Meets with patients and/or families to assess needs, develop individualized care plans, and arrange resources in collaboration with the care team.
• Formulates, develops, and implements a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan using appropriate clinical social-work treatments and interventions (e.g., crisis intervention, brief individual, marital, family, or group therapies, grief and bereavement work).
• Assists the multidisciplinary team in screening, identifying, diagnosing, managing, and treating victims of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, rape, etc.
• Provides consultative services to healthcare team members within scope-of-care definitions.
• Maintains working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues (e.g., advance directives, child and elder abuse).
• Works closely with Primary Care Providers and Collaborating Psychiatrists to diagnose, treat, and manage mental-health and/or substance-abuse problems in patients and family members.
• Documents assessments, plans, interactions, and interventions according to departmental, hospital, and/or health-system guidelines.
• Accesses and provides hospital, medical-center, and health-system resources to meet patient-care needs.
• Maintains current knowledge of therapeutic techniques, interventions, and available resources; stays updated on social-work and healthcare developments.
• Provides teaching and training for students, staff, and faculty from social work and other disciplines.
• Contributes to the academic mission through participation in committees, conferences, publications, teaching, and research.
• Exhibits consistent professional behavior; attends and participates in staff, committee, department, and administrative meetings.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Work or related field.
• Current state license as required by the board where services will be provided:
  • Maryland: LMSW, LCSW, or LCSW-C
  • Ohio: LSW or LISW
  • Pennsylvania: LSW or LCSW
  • West Virginia: LGSW, LCSW, or LICSW
• Two years of direct clinical experience in behavioral health.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current state license at the highest clinical level where services will be provided:
  • West Virginia: LCSW or LICSW
  • Maryland: LCSW or LCSW-C

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal communication and negotiation skills with patients, families, physicians, and healthcare-team colleagues.
• Ability to work with diverse social, economic, and cultural backgrounds; flexibility, open-mindedness, and adaptability to change.
• Strong ability to prioritize multiple work assignments and manage time efficiently.
• Ability to work effectively and autonomously in a self-directed role.
• Capable of independent judgment and action regarding psychosocial needs of patients.

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week.