Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Geneva
- Bethesda, MD
- $62,100-85,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provides behavioral health (BH) screenings, assessment, and direct care, specialty referral and longitudinal BH care management
- Provides thorough assessment of clients, issues, and situations to design and develop a comprehensive treatment plan for the resolution of complex social, economic and psychosocial problems
- Conducts psychosocial evaluations and provides therapeutic interventions including crisis counseling to individuals, groups and families as needed to facilitate case management and optimize care
- Evaluates the impact of diagnosis or lack of diagnosis with unexplained chronic symptoms on individual and family system as well as assess patient's functioning within work, family and on a daily basis and identify areas needing continued support and resources in order to assist patient in treatment
- Provides services to high-risk populations including service members pending medical discharge due to physical and or behavioral health illnesses
- Develops, implements, and maintains in partnership with clients and other health care providers and community resources as applicable, an optimum, comprehensive care plan
- Coordinates services for those clients who move out of region to ensure continuity of care
- Advocate for clients as needed, and assist with negotiating systems to acquire resources and services, including assisting with paperwork completion, while consistently demonstrating a caring attitude that exceeds the client's expectations for services
- Educates clients, their families, commanders and health care staff on community resources including information and referral for financial, housing, educational, employment and childcare resources as required by client's needs assessment
- Performs various administrative duties in support of the services provided, e.g. conducting seminars and training programs for out-patient, and community clientele
- Attends and participates in patient care conferences, team conferences, professional staff conferences and any other appropriate professional activities
- Serves as trainer/mentor to lower graded social workers or students and other behavioral/psychological specialists trainees, providing advice and guidance on less complex cases or cases of limited scope
- Performs on-call behavioral health services and provides crisis intervention when appropriate
- Reviews and evaluates professional records to ensure compliance IAW hospital and Departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Cognizant of and adhere to all applicable regulations and guidelines
- Performs development duties that assist current programs managed or developed to help insure work efforts are successful
- May serve as subject matter expert to the research team and provide guidance on the preparation of technical progress reports
- Master’s degree in Social Work or related field required
- Ph.D. or Psy.D. in Counseling or Clinical Psychology is a PLUS
- Independent Clinical Social Work license or Professional Counselor license *(must have a passing score on both the National Clinical Mental Health Examination (NCMHCE) and National Counselor Exam (NCE))*
- 3-5 years’ experience in social work preferred
- 3-5 years’ non-profit, research, or healthcare experience desired
- 1-3 years’ experience in staff or project management
- Demonstrate competence in oral and written communication
- Must be organized, attentive to detail, and possess a positive, friendly and professional demeanor
- Must be flexible with changing priorities and able to communicate in a diplomatic and professional manner
- Ability to exercise independent judgment in fast-paced, high-pressured environment with strict deadlines and to manage multiple projects
- Computer skills including at least intermediate level experience with Excel and other Microsoft Office Software