Clinical Social Service Director

FREEDOM BEHAVIORAL IS NOW PROVIDING SERVICES IN BUNKIE, LA

We are excited to extend services in this area to those in need! The Freedom Team puts patient care first by driving processes to ensure quality and compliance. We have an energetic, motivated leadership team implementing exciting new changes. Our team strives to nurture and elevate the talents of all employees. If you want to be a part of a growing team impacting the lives of others, We are looking forward to adding members to our team!

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The Clinical Social Service Director assumes responsibility for the functioning and communication within the social service department. The Clinical Social Worker participates as an integral professional member of a multi-discipline supervision of social service interventions to patients. The Clinical Social Worker oversees the implementation of interventions performed by other disciplines with the social service department. These other disciplines, include the Discharge Planner, Case Manager, and Activity Therapist, along with other social service employees.

The Clinical Social Worker works in collaboration with other clinical departments through consultation with the medical staff, DON, and nursing staff. The Clinical Social Worker works to facilitates resolution of concerns in the patient population identified and ensures that services, programing and patient’s social needs meet the highest quality of care. The Clinical Social Worker demonstrates understanding and interpretation of facility policies to ensure that policies are adhere to.

Furthermore, The Clinical Social Worker demonstrates a strong knowledgeable of a wide range of disorders; cognitive, emotional, and developmental, social and behavioral. Additional duties include, performs crisis intervention, special case conferences, family communication, and takes a lead role in the treatment team process. In addition, maintains performance improvement activities within the department and participates QM activities. The Clinical Social worker adheres to the highest ethical standards regarding patient care and rights.

The Clinical Social Worker facilitates communication to outside agencies to ensure that these patient rights, care, and needs are met. The Clinical Social Worker assists with formulating the budgetary needs with the social service department.

Work environment characteristics are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally be exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment may be moderate to high.

The work environment may include chemicals used for cleaning, and have dust, mist, and stream generated in housekeeping tasks. This is a smoke-free workplace. Work requires spending approximately 75% or more of the time inside a building that offers protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The employee must provide documentation of a tuberculosis test during new-hire orientation and annually thereafter.

Must be able to stand on feet for moderate periods of time, standing could be as high as 60-80% per working shift per day. Must be able to sit for extended periods of time, at least 4 hours. A certain amount of walking and standing are often necessary to carry out job duties. Lifting/carrying may exceed 10 pounds. Additional work environment characteristics may include performing repetitive tasks/motion, and hearing alarms,…