Senior Clinical Caseworker, CCA/LMSW/LCSW RSM program APS

Job Location

This position will be located at 1010 West Columbia Street, Farmington, MO.

About the Role

Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center is seeking a Senior Clinical Caseworker for their Adult Psychiatric Services. This is an advanced professional position accountable for providing clinical casework services to persons with mental illness and/or development or physical disabilities. The position involves 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. Knowledge of social work practices, techniques, and ethics, as well as medical and psychiatric diagnoses and implications for treatment prognosis, is required. The ability to evaluate care and services provided to a client in terms of needs, functioning level, progress, and adherence to facility, state, or federal guidelines and regulations is essential.

Responsibilities

• Secures social and environmental information from clients and their families through interviews and home visits.
• Compiles case histories concerning the clients’ social, environmental, and economic backgrounds for use by medical and other professional treatment staff.
• Participates in admission, social diagnosis, prognosis, progress review, research, community placement, and aftercare planning with an interdisciplinary team and other service agencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 2 years of experience (substitutions may be allowed).

Qualifications

• Licensure as a Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).

Skills

• Knowledge of individual, family, and group behavior.
• Understanding of medical and treatment records, progress notes, and other related information.
• Knowledge of social work practices, techniques, and ethics.
• Knowledge of medical and psychiatric diagnoses and implications for treatment prognosis.
• Ability to evaluate the care and services provided to a client in terms of needs, functioning level, progress, and adherence to facility, state, or federal guidelines and regulations.
• 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 apply a variety of techniques and methods in the areas of assessment, planning, and individual and group therapy.

Benefits

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for the State of Missouri, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator.

Pay

$50,990.40 - $78,264.00

Schedule

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