LCSW I, Psychiatric Services, Part-Time, (36 Hour Week), Variable Shifts

About Marinhealth

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) I provides inpatient and outpatient comprehensive clinical social work practice to all patients with psychosocial and psychiatric needs. The role involves psychotherapeutic intervention, psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, evidence-based practice, group and individual therapy, and other clinical interventions and treatments as per physician order or per protocol. The LCSW I also provides discharge planning and utilization review to ensure appropriate benefits and best clinical and discharge outcomes.

Job Specifications

• Education: Master's degree from an accredited school of social work or social welfare required.
• Experience: Prior work experience in a health care environment is required. Acute care hospital experience preferred.
• Licenses and Certifications: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) required at hire. Basic Life Support (BLS) and Integrative Agitation Management (IAMTAC) required within 90 and 30 days of hire, respectively.
• Prerequisite Skills: Knowledge of psychosocial aspects of illness, age-specific theories of human development, social work theory and practice, and applicable community resources and legal aspects of care for varying populations and assigned hospital units. Significant independent judgment, analytical, problem-solving, and collaborative skills.
• Specific Knowledge: Demonstrates expertise and knowledge of DSM V, reporting laws, and government and private insurance benefits relevant to specific populations served.
• Skills: Demonstrates knowledge and willingness to engage in continuous learning about various ethnic, spiritual, and culturally diverse backgrounds. Adheres to professional ethics, practice, and values as delineated by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics.

Job Requirements, Prerequisites and Essential Functions

• Education: Master's degree from an accredited school of social work or social welfare required.
• Experience: Prior work experience in a health care environment is required. Acute care hospital experience preferred.
• Licenses and Certifications: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) required at hire. Basic Life Support (BLS) and Integrative Agitation Management (IAMTAC) required within 90 and 30 days of hire, respectively.
• Prerequisite Skills: Knowledge of psychosocial aspects of illness, age-specific theories of human development, social work theory and practice, and applicable community resources and legal aspects of care for varying populations and assigned hospital units. Significant independent judgment, analytical, problem-solving, and collaborative skills.
• Specific Knowledge: Demonstrates expertise and knowledge of DSM V, reporting laws, and government and private insurance benefits relevant to specific populations served.
• Skills: Demonstrates knowledge and willingness to engage in continuous learning about various ethnic, spiritual, and culturally diverse backgrounds. Adheres to professional ethics, practice, and values as delineated by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provides psychosocial assessments and treatment to patients and or families related to adjustment to illness and discharge planning.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide cultural, spiritual and age specific care by obtaining specific care information and assessing relevant information needed to identify each patient’s unique treatment and discharge planning needs.
• Maintains effective communications with staff and attending physicians related to patient’s psychosocial and psychiatric needs.
• Maintains open communication and positive working relationships with all hospital departments as well as adheres to hospital chain of command.
• Maintains and provides current information and referral services to patients, caretakers and families related to appropriate community resources and agencies.
• Maintains positive working relationships with community agencies.
• May provide clinical supervision to master’s level associate clinical social workers or graduate level MSW interns.
• Participates in meetings and committees relevant to specific treatment area/department/program and represents MarinHealth Medical Center at relevant community meetings and committees.
• Discharge Planning:
• Maintains and provides current information and referral services to patients, caretakers and families related to appropriate community resources and agencies.
• Independently case finds, coordinates and implements discharge plans for all patients with psychosocial needs.
• Maintains knowledge of current eligibility criteria for a wide array of community resources.
• Initiates contact with state, county and private resources, including family, to facilitate discharge to the least restrictive level of care.
• Provides advocacy for clients in accessing appropriate community based resources.
• Interprets and cites applicable laws and regulations to staff and physicians pertinent to individual patient needs.
• Documentation:
• Provides accurate, clear, concise, relevant and timely documentation in patient’s charts accordingly to individual units/departments/programs documentation system and their adherence to specific CMS and State regulations and in accordance with policy and procedure.
• Maintains consistent and clear documentation on daily assessment of patients related to care plan.
• Documents timely initial psychosocial assessment according to unit/department/program’s standard of care.
• Documents all collateral contracts.
• Documents all screening and clinical interventions (i.e. SBIRT, AUDIT, DAST, CAGE, C-SSRS, ITSS).
• Documents all discharge planning efforts, including timely insurance reviews.
• Documents treatment planning according to each units/departments/program standards by using each unit/departments/programs specific forms.
• Maintains confidentiality of privileged communication with patients and families adhering to Clinical Social Work Practice.

Accommodation

Qualified applicants with disabilities may request reasonable accommodation during the application process by contacting Human Resources at 415-925-7040 or TalentAcquisition@mymarinhealth.org.

C.A.R.E.S. Standards

MarinHealth seeks candidates ready to model our C.A.R.E.S. standards—Communication, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, Safety—which foster a healing, trust-based environment for patients and colleagues.

Health & Immunizations

To protect employees, patients, and our community, MarinHealth requires measles, mumps, varicella, and annual influenza immunizations as a condition of employment (and annually thereafter). COVID-19 vaccination/booster remains strongly recommended.

Equal Employment

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Compensation

The posted pay range complies with applicable law and reflects what we reasonably expect to pay for this role. Individual pay is set by skills, experience, qualifications, and internal/market equity, consistent with MarinHealth’s compensation philosophy. Positions covered by collective bargaining agreements are governed by those agreements.