Licensed Certified Social Worker PRN

Overview

Are you ready to take your career to new heights? At Concentra, you will be a vital member of our patient care team and play a crucial role in providing exceptional care to our patients. Our mission is to improve the health of America's workforce, one patient at a time. Join us at Concentra and see how your clinical competency and compassion can make a meaningful difference in the lives of the patients you serve.

The Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) is an essential part of integrated mental health care. In cooperation with the existing medical clinic team and a LCSW, helps establish an ongoing behavioral health screening and support program for first responders. Contributes to the development, implementation and monitoring of the program. Assists with collecting and collating actionable data for program improvements. Offers therapeutic crisis intervention and emergency services as required.

Responsibilities

• Administers standardized behavioral health screening tools, interprets results, and facilitates patient treatment when appropriate
• Conducts face-to-face or virtual diagnostic interviews, charts findings in a manner compliant with all applicable standards
• Provides timely and appropriate assessment, interpretation and diagnosis of mental, social and emotional disorders in collaboration with other professionals
• Participates in the development of a network of intervention options for patients when clinically appropriate
• Provides crisis intervention as necessary
• Participates in peer reviews
• Engages productively with a colleague providing oversight under pertinent state regulations
• Collaborates with teammates and client colleagues to achieve program success
• Maintains current and accurate clinical records
• Prepares reports and documentation
• Complies with organizational, state and federal regulations and guidelines

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

Education/Credentials

Education Level: Master’s Degree

Major: Degree must be from an accredited college or university.

Education Details:

• Master's degree in social work from a CSWE accredited program
• Meets state requirements as an LCSW, including completion of 3,000 hours of supervised social work experience and 100 hours of periodic face-to-face supervision in the practice of social work under a contractual agreement form for supervision

Certifications and/or Licenses:

Job-Related Experience: Customarily has at least one year of applicable experience in the field of social work

Job-Related Skills/Competencies

• Concentra Core Competencies of Service Mentality, Attention to Detail, Sense of Urgency, Initiative and Flexibility
• Ability to make decisions or solve problems by using logic to identify key facts, explore alternatives, and propose quality solutions
• Outstanding customer service skills as well as the ability to deal with people in a manner which shows tact and professionalism
• The ability to properly handle sensitive and confidential information (including HIPAA and PHI) in accordance with federal and state laws and company policies
• Eagerness to gain knowledge within the occupational medicine field and contribute to the health of essential members of the first responder community.
• Experience administering and interpreting results of standard screening tools for common behavioral health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, active suicidality and substance use disorders.
• Experience with HIPAA/privacy issues, ideally in a setting where personal privacy must be balanced with workplace considerations such as safety.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in interactions with patients, clients and colleagues.
• Experience conducting productive in-person and virtual patient encounters within reasonable scheduled appointment timeframes.
• Independent diligence and accountability to complete tasks and meet deadlines.
• Computer skills including use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and EHRs (Electronic Health Records).
• Eagerness to learn new skills and grow professionally within a supportive organization.

Physical/Mental Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently sitting and occasionally standing and walking. May constantly utilize hands and fingers, frequently flexing or extending wrist to perform job-related tasks. Occasional stooping, kneeling, pushing, pulling, twisting, reaching, or overhead reaching, climbing, and repetitive motion in work performance. The ability to hear and understand with clarity, detect sound, and have conversations with staff, customers, management, etc. The hearing is within the acceptable range for various communications such as telephone, in-person, virtual (electronic), etc. Normal or corrected vision to acceptable levels for office work. The ability to lift/carry up to 10 pounds.

Work is performed primarily in an office/field/clinical environment. This position requires frequent communication with clients, staff, management, and customers. Must be able to resolve conflicts as they arise effectively. Can involve exposure to communicable diseases, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medicinal preparations, blood borne pathogens and other conditions common to a medical center environment.

The mental demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform this job's essential functions successfully. In this position, the employee may have imposed pressure on a routine basis to meet various deadlines. Based on the nature of the job and healthcare industry, some stressful and unpredictable situations require a person to address them with care and sensitivity as company policies and regulations require. Employees are more than likely to access confidential and sensitive information and must handle these documents with extreme care.

Travel: Minimal overnight travel up to 10% by land or air is required of employee in this position. While traveling the employee may encounter varying weather conditions, road and walking surfaces and will need to adjust to those conditions (i.e., inclement weather, slippery surfaces, wet surfaces, uneven surfaces, humid, cold, or hot temperatures, etc.). Also, while traveling the employee will need to adjust to the physical demands that may include lifting to place luggage in overhead bin(s), standing in line(s), walking, sitting for unknown periods of time, and other physical demands that traveling may impose on a person.