Clinical Social Worker Jobs in New Jersey by City

Skills Needed: Experience:
Clinical Psychologist
• You must have at least one year of experience within a three-year period.
• You must have experience in the evaluation and treatment of patients who have pain, psychological factors affecting their physical condition, or difficulty coping with medical problems.
• You must have a minimum of one-year experience as a licensed clinical psychologist.

Clinical Social Worker
• You must have at last one year of experience within a three-year period.
• You must have experience in the evaluation and treatment of patients who have pain, psychological factors affecting their physical condition, or difficulty coping with medical problems.
• You must have a minimum of two (2) years’ experience within the past five (5) years, in the independent practice of clinical social work in a mental health setting, working with an adult population, or with children and teens, if specifically working with that population.


Knowledge:
Clinical Psychologist
• You must have at least 12 months of direct hands-on experience in the last 24 months with computer operations, basic word processing, data entry, and use of an automated medical record system.  

Clinical Social Worker
• You must have at least 12 months of direct hands-on experience in the last 24 months with computer operations, basic word processing, data entry, and use of an automated medical record system.  

Education:
Clinical Psychologist
• You must possess a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree in clinical or counseling psychology from an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited psychology program or a program acceptable to the Office of the Surgeon General, USAF.  
• You must complete an APA-accredited internship/residency in professional psychology or an internship/residency acceptable to the Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Air Force.

Clinical Social Worker
• You must hold a Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) degree from a graduate school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).


Licensure:
Clinical Psychologist
• You must have and maintain a current license to practice psychology in any one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Clinical Social Worker
• You must maintain a current, unrestricted clinical license to independently practice social work in any one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Skills Needed: Specific Tasks:

Clinical Psychologist
• You shall participate in and successfully completes Air Force care facilitator training. Demonstrates core competency skills to CF independent practice within 240 days of starting.  The 240-day threshold for demonstration of core competency skills will be extended if the Air Force is unable to provide training opportunities within 240 days.
• Care facilitator training is an interactive computer-based training that is approximately three days in length. You must complete all CF training requirements before engaging in CF patient care services.  
• You shall contact referred patients to assess medication treatment adnce for depression, anxiety, and PTSD disorders.
• You shall use validated brief symptom inventories to assess current symptom severity.
• You shall assess barriers to treatment adnce and help patient problem-solve solutions to barriers.
• You shall provide patients with education regarding their behavioral health condition and treatment regimen.
• You shall maintain patient information in a patient registry.  
• You shall maintain accurate and current notes in the electronic medical records of all patients contacted for review by the managing physician.  
• You shall perform case management functions.

Clinical Social Worker
• You shall participate in and successfully completes Air Force care facilitator training. Demonstrates core competency skills to CF independent practice within 240 days of starting.  The 240-day threshold for demonstration of core competency skills will be extended if the Air Force is unable to provide training opportunities within 240 days.
• Care facilitator training is an interactive computer-based training that is approximately three days in length. You must complete all CF training requirements before engaging in CF patient care services.
• You shall contact referred patients to assess medication treatment adnce for depression, anxiety, and PTSD disorders.  
• You shall use validated brief symptom inventories to assess current symptom severity.
• You shall assess barriers to treatment adnce and help patient problem-solve solutions to barriers.
• You shall provide patients with education regarding their behavioral health condition and treatment regimen.
• You shall maintain patient information in a patient registry.      
• You shall maintain accurate and current notes in the electronic medical records of all patients contacted for review by the managing physician.  
• You shall perform case management functions.      
• You shall attend and participate in meetings during normal duty hours and professional staff conferences and other appropriate professional activities such as, but not limited to the following: quality improvement meeting, professional staff meetings, commander's staff meetings, primary care staff meetings, and others required by applicable regulations, MTF guidance, or as directed by supervisor.

Experience:
Clinical Psychologist
• You must have at least one year of experience within a three-year period.
• You must have experience in the evaluation and treatment of patients who have pain, psychological factors affecting their physical condition, or difficulty coping with medical problems.
• You must have a minimum of one-year experience as a licensed clinical psychologist.

Clinical Social Worker
• You must have at last one year of experience within a three-year period.
• You must have experience in the evaluation and treatment of patients who have pain, psychological factors affecting their physical condition, or difficulty coping with medical problems.
• You must have a minimum of two (2) years’ experience within the past five (5) years, in the independent practice of clinical social work in a mental health setting, working with an adult population, or with children and teens, if specifically working with that population.

Knowledge:
Clinical Psychologist
• You must have at least 12 months of direct hands-on experience in the last 24 months with computer operations, basic word processing, data entry, and use of an automated medical record system.  

Clinical Social Worker
• You must have at least 12 months of direct hands-on experience in the last 24 months with computer operations, basic word processing, data entry, and use of an automated medical record system.  


Education:
Clinical Psychologist
• You must possess a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree in clinical or counseling psychology from an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited psychology program or a program acceptable to the Office of the Surgeon General, USAF.  
• You must complete an APA-accredited internship/residency in professional psychology or an internship/residency acceptable to the Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Air Force.

Clinical Social Worker
• You must hold a Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) degree from a graduate school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

Licensure:
Clinical Psychologist
• You must have and maintain a current license to practice psychology in any one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Clinical Social Worker
• You must maintain a current, unrestricted clinical license to independently practice social work in any one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Skills Needed: Qualifications:
• You shall have at least 2 years of full-time experience in care coordination, discharge planning or case management in medical (military or civilian) setting within the last 5 years.
• You shall have current certification in American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) (Course C) or the American Red Cross CPR/BLS Course.
• You shall be able to communicate in the English language at the intermediate level as exemplified in your written and verbal skills in the performance of your duties.

Education:
• Nurse Applicants must possess a Baccalaureate Degree program in nursing (BSN) accredited by a National Nursing accrediting agency recognized by the US Department of Education.  
• Social Worker applicants must possess a Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) degree from a graduate school of social work fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

License:
• Nurse applicants must possess a valid, unrestricted license to practice as a Registered Nurse (RN) from one of the 50 states, and/or the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or territories of the United States.
• Social Worker applicants are not required to possess a license to apply.

Skills/Abilities:
• You must have knowledge and skills to effectively apply SNC functions: a) Assessment: Identification of patients that need special medical and education needs/management; comprehensive collection of patient information and medical status; and continued evaluation of an established plan of care; b) Planning: Collaboration with the patient, family/caregiver, primary provider and other members of the health care team for developing an effective plan of care; c) Facilitation: Care coordination and communication among all involved parties; d) Advocacy: Support for the patient and family/caregivers to ensure identified education and appropriate, timely care coordination is received.
• Mastery of theories, principles, and methodologies underlying psychosocial practice.
• You must have knowledge and understanding of developmental growth; dynamics of human behavior, family, and other social systems; and impact of illness and disability on social functioning.
• You must have the ability in program planning, implementation, and evaluation, and in conducting individual, family, group, and community assessments.
• You must have strong capability to work with service members and/or veterans and their families who are experiencing a wide range of complicated mental, emotional, behavioral, physical, psychosocial, and environmental problems.
• You must have working knowledge of medical privacy and confidentiality (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]), and accreditation standards of Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and The Joint Commission (TJC).
• You must have a working knowledge of computer applications/software to include Microsoft Office programs, MS Outlook (e- mail), and internet familiarity is required. The ability to input, extract and format data from established databases is desired.
• You must demonstrate ability to communicate effectively both orally and written.
• You must be skillful and tactful in communicating with people who may be physically or mentally ill, uncooperative, fearful, emotionally distraught, and potentially agitated.
• You must demonstrate the ability to apply critical thinking skills and expertise in resolving complicated healthcare, social, interpersonal and financial patient situations.
• You must possess organization, problem-solving and communication skills to articulate medical requirements to patients, families/care givers, medical and non-medical staff in a professional and courteous way.