What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Social Worker II position at Compunnel?
Job Summary :
• The role involves managing cases with complex social needs for long-term placements and providing treatment to adults, adolescents, and children.
Key Responsibilities :
• Conduct initial interviews with members by eliciting and interpreting the psychological and social meaning of complaints.
• Determine urgency of members' needs.
• Provide a professional interpretation of members' presentations and recommend a course of therapeutic action, selecting appropriate treatment modalities.
• Render appropriate and immediate guidance and therapy for members in crisis or in need of clinical services.
• Maintain written records of therapy, prepare reports and letters; contact social agencies, schools, relatives, and friends (with member permission) to obtain pertinent information.
• Provide clinical consultation in an integrated health care environment regarding family interactions, sociocultural determinants, and community resources.
• Provide telephone assessment, counseling, resource information, and referrals.
• Demonstrate expertise in a variety of treatment methodologies.
• Provide appropriate and timely documentation of clinical encounters in members' charts.
• Adhere to all mandated guidelines for patients' clinical care and license.
• Maintain license.
• Participate in QM & CQI activities.
Required Qualifications :
• LCSW with 2 years of experience.
• Knowledge and ability to identify community resources available.
• Experience managing cases with complex social needs for long-term placements.
• Competencies in timely and appropriate assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment intervention of members.
• Effective communication of clinical material to members and clinical staff.
• High internal and external customer / patient satisfaction.
• Proficient in identifying and treating the span of developmental stages.
• Proficient in various treatment modalities including, but not limited to, individual, group, family, and child therapy.
• Knowledgeable of KP and community resources.
• Compliance with organizational, departmental, state / federal guidelines, and all regulatory agency policies and procedures.
Certifications : • BLS required.
• COVID Certificate with booster dose required.
Certification : Basic Life Support
