IAT - WH Senior Clinical Social Worker Job Wheeling area,Illinois USA,Healthcare

The Clinical Social Worker collaborates with Primary Care Providers and Collaborating Psychiatrist to provide comprehensive treatment and care management for behavioral health. Carries a caseload and routinely provides clinical interventions, completes validated assessments, offers psychoeducation, assist in treatment and diagnosis of behavioral health conditions. Displays certain leadership qualities such as:
Maintaining a positive culture, clear and effective timely communication. Understands and displays collaborative, positive, and ethical culture, is able to balance team and individual responsibilities and consistently provides support to team.

Minimum Qualifications

Masters degree in Social Work or related field.
Must possess current license as required by state board where services will be provided.
- MD
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  Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Certified Social Worker – Clinical (LCSW-C) through the Maryland Board of Social Work
- OH
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  Licensed Social Worker (LSW) or Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) through the Ohio Board of Social Work
- PA
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  Licensed Social Worker (LSW) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Pennsylvania Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors
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  Licensed Graduate Social Worker (LGSW), Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW), or Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) through the West Virginia Board of Social Work
Three (3) years of direct clinical experience with behavioral health.

Preferred Qualifications

Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) through the West Virginia Board of Social Work.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

Provides psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation.

Collaborates with all members of the multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive mental health support for designated caseload.

Monitors the patient’s progress by use of validated scales and clinical judgement; intervening as necessary and appropriate, to ensure that the plan of care and services provided are patient focused, high quality, efficient, and cost effective.

Provides appropriate brief interventions, psychoeducation, direct care management to patients and families around issues related to the patient’s diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation.

Meets with the patient and/or family to assess needs and develop an individualized care plan and to arrange resources to meet the individual’s needs in collaboration with the patient’s care team.

Formulates, develops, and implements a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan utilizing appropriate clinical social work treatments and interventions. Interventions may include crisis intervention, brief individual, marital, family and/or group therapies as well as grief and bereavement work.

Works with the multidisciplinary team to assist with screening, identification, diagnosis, management and treatment of victims of abuse, neglect, and domestic violence, rape, etc. Provides consultative services to health care team members within scope of care definitions, as needed. Maintain a working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues that impact on patient care, e.g., advance directives, child and elder abuse.

Works closely with Primary Care Provider and Collaborating Psychiatrist on identified patients to diagnose, treat and manage mental health and/or substance abuse problems in patients and family members.

Documents assessment, plan, interactions, and interventions according to departmental, hospital and/or health system guidelines and standards.

Knowledge of hospital, medical center and/or health system resources to access and provide for patient care needs.

Maintains a working knowledge of therapeutic techniques and interventions as well as awareness of resources available.

Keeps current with social work and health care developments and seeks to increase further enhancements of job related knowledge.

Provides teaching and training for…