Senior Social Worker - Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' Trauma and Resilience Center

UTHealth Houston's Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' Trauma and Resilience Center is hiring a Senior Social Worker! The UTHealth Houston Trauma and Resilience Center (TRC) is a multidisciplinary treatment, research, and education center offering exclusively evidence-based, trauma-focused care for patients struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma-related behavioral health conditions such as depression, insomnia, and substance abuse related to the traumatic event.

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.

Once you join us you won t want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Position Summary:

Independently provides advanced professional social work services to address medical, psychiatric and social concerns by using a Biopsychosocial perspective to asses, evaluate, implement, monitor, advocate and implement services for patients.

Position

Key Accountabilities:

• Conducts comprehensive assessment to interprets patients social, emotional, environmental and financial needs.
• Plans course of treatment or refers cases to appropriate professionals, institutions or agencies to ensure that patients receive appropriate treatment or referral.
• Obtains data from patients and/or relatives in the best interest of their problems to assist in the development of a number of significant teaching endeavors, programs, and social services.
• With the objective of meeting total patient care, assesses patients and/or relatives to gain understanding of the individual s problems and needs. Collaborates with the physician and other members of the multi-disciplinary team to coordinate care, enhance the patient experience and achieve collaborative goals. Collaboratively develops patient goals, monitors progress, addresses barriers to goal achievement, and evaluates outcomes of individualized care plans.
  
  Conducts individual and or group counseling.
• Prepares detailed reports for review with coworkers or a faculty member.
• Responds to emergency situations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/

Skills:

• Knowledge of DSM-5 Criteria.
• Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) by State of Texas required or
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) by State of Texas required

Minimum Education:

Master s Degree in Social Work from a school approved by the Council on Social Work required

Minimum Experience:

4 years of social work experience required, with at least 1 year of experience providing evidence-based, client-centered counseling (group or independent) required

Physical Requirements:

Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.

Security Sensitive:

This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be…