LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER

Position Summary:
Provide individual, family, and/or group therapy in an outpatient setting. Conduct substance abuse evaluations for patients seeking residential treatment and/or outpatient substance abuse treatment. Serves as a mental health educator to health care professionals and communities within the hospital service area.

This list of duties and responsibilities is illustrative only of the tasks performed by this position and is not all-inclusive.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Conduct intake biopsychosocial assessments for all patients.
• Create treatment plans.
• Refer client to other resources within the hospital as well as in the surrounding areas.
• Consult with the Behavioral Health Team on difficult cases.
Provide crisis intervention services to current patients as well as those who present in the Emergency Department with acute mental health crises or substance abuse issues.
• Maintain required patient records with appropriate documentation.
• Establish and maintain working relationships with various agencies/service providers (such as probation Officers, Child Protective Services, Adult Protective Services) to coordinate services.
• Familiarity with the DSM V.
• Maintain strict confidentiality.
• Perform other duties as required.