Social Worker or Counselor - Park City Clinic

Responsibilities

• Provides immediate response and crisis treatment to crisis victims, their families and departments requesting assistance.
• Completes diagnostic patient assessments, outlines and implements therapeutic strategies, mobilizes and convenes support systems, acquires specialized medical consultation as needed and arranges appropriate follow-up or referral for each crisis case.
• Collaborates with on-call psychiatric residents to arrange voluntary or involuntary admissions to the inpatient unit, ensuring all legal procedures are followed and involuntarily detained patients are informed of their civil rights within 24 hours of their admission.
• Completes clinical documentation of the patients' assessment and services in the proper hospital record, and maintains files on all crisis patients.
• Educates families and/or patients regarding disease or injury processes, hospital and agency routines and legal procedures.
• May participate in case conferences, patient care planning meetings and with community health agencies to facilitate continuity of care and coordination of services.
• Responds to on-call requests from police, health and service agencies, media, families and patients to provide consultation as needed.
• Plans and participates in staff development conferences for crisis staff; may assist in training psychiatric residents and graduate students.
• Assists with community outreach activities, i.e., professional counseling, lectures, in-service training and preventive education programs.
• Collects and analyzes utilization data to evaluate program effectiveness, quality assurance, program planning and contracted service.
• May serve in rotational assignments to cover weekend hospital Social Work services, EAP counselor duty, and, if qualified, serve as a Designated Examiner at Civil Psychiatric Commitment Hearings.

Qualifications

• Licenses Required: Current RQI Healthcare Provider eCredential through the University of Utah Health RQI system. The eCredential is to be obtained within 30 days of hire. Current license to practice as an Associate Clinic Mental Health Counselor in the State of Utah. Additional license requirements as determined by the hiring department.