Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Company Description

Siter-Neubauer & Associates is currently conducting a search for Clinical Social Worker

Job Description

Specific Duties 

• Practice as an interdependent member of the health team and provide important components of primary health care through direct social work services, consultation, collaboration, referral, teaching, and advocacy. 
• Provide direct and indirect services to both inpatients and outpatients in accordance with social work standards of practice. 
• Assess and treat outpatients in individual, group, couples, and family modalities exercising professional judgment and using a wide range of social work skills to include individual and family counseling to assist patients and their families in dealing with chronic and acute diseases/injuries. 
• Conduct psychosocial assessments to determine patient needs and resources (both family and community support). Provide counseling to patient and family in matters directly related to patient limitations, adjustment to medical condition, and ongoing treatment. Develop and implement discharge plans, follow-up care, and transfers to other health care facilities (e.g., nursing homes, rehabilitation hospitals, and VA facilities). 
• Plan and maintain referral and coordination services with civilian health and social service agencies to provide optimal patient care. 
• Provide consultation services to medical, nursing, and ancillary hospital staff regarding psychosocial issues, discharge plans, and follow-up care for patients and families. 
• Provide crisis intervention services. 
• Respond independently, and with various media, to appropriate military and community requests for lectures and presentations. Take the initiative in seeking out opportunities to present programs to meet the needs of service members and their families. 
• Develop and maintain working relationships with community resources. Coordinate with teachers, lawyers, physicians, and representatives of their service disciplines for the benefit of the service member and families. Take initiative in identifying and assessing the needs of the military community, and organize responses to address those needs. 
• Provide concise documentation of care and recommendations in patient’s medical record in no less than 24 hours after the patient is seen. 
• Not exceed approximately 16 sessions per day to include individual and group appointments. 
• Participate in group medical appointments including Shared Medical Appointments (SMA) and Drop in Group Medical Appointments (DIGMA) as requested by the PCM. 
• Provide technical direction and clinical insight into relevant projects being conducted at the site of service. 
• Letters of Recommendation: Provide two letters of recommendation written within the preceding two years from practicing providers, supervisors or program administrators attesting to the HCW’s professional skills, competencies, patient rapport, training abilities, etc. Recommendation letters must include; name, title, phone number, date of recommendation, address and signature of the individual providing the recommendation. 

Work Schedule 

• Provide services Monday through Friday, excluding the day of observance of federal holidays, between the hours of 0700 and 1800. 
• The HCWs shall be assigned an 8.5-hour shift, to include an uncompensated 30-minute meal break. 
• The HCWs shall be on duty for 40 hours each week, except during periods of approved leave and holidays. 
• In no instance will the HCWs be required to provide services in excess of 80 hours per 2-week period. 
• The specific schedule for each HCW for each 2-week period will be scheduled 1 month in advance by the supervisor. 

Special Requirements/Skills 

• Must be comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. 
• Must be able and willing to reprioritize on short notice and work on multiple simultaneous projects. 
• Flexible and able to work with various personalities. 
• Team work skills required. 
• Time management skills required. The ability to meet deadlines in a deadline intensive environment is essential. 
• High level of adaptability and willingness to embrace change in a fast-paced, demanding environment. 
• SNA does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or veteran status in provision of services or employment opportunities and benefits. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Qualifications

• Possess a master’s degree in social work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). 
• Possess a current, unrestricted license to practice independently as a Clinical Social Worker in any one of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands. 
• Possess one year of experience within the last four years in the evaluation and treatment of patients who have pain, psychological factors affecting their physical condition, or difficulty coping with medical problems.