Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides psychosocial assessments as referred.
• Provide individual and couple psychotherapy sessions.
• Maintains close liaison with other care providers, especially psychiatrists involved in patient’s treatment.
• Prepares Initial Assessments, Treatment Care Plans, Treatment Care Plan Updates, daily notes, discharge notes, etc., per Agency policy, in a timely manner.
• Group supervision twice monthly. Will provide relevant information about the PCMH program including brochures, that describe the values and goals of the program to patients.
• The information disseminated will be based upon the person’s role as it relates to patient care within LISH.
• Attends necessary in-service education programs.
• Means and ability to travel between Agency buildings (as needed).
• Maintain licensing status in NYS by completing 36 hours of continuing education (CE) from a NY Department approved provider during each three-year registration period.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Necessary Skills & Abilities

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Education and/or Experience

• Master’s Degree from an accredited School of Social Work in the United States.
• Minimum 2 year’s clinical experience.
• NYS Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to sit.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Blood Borne Pathogen Classification: Category III.