Description
Job Summary:
Under the Supervision of a licensed mental health professional or other licensed medical professional, the Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), provides services to patients within Wayne Memorial Community Health Center's clinic primary care settings. The LCSW functions as an integral member of a team delivering a variety of services to patients referred by a primary care provider.
The LCSW engages in population-based education, prevention and early intervention with patients, and participates in chronic disease management, including psychosocial assessments to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their, illness, treatment, and or life situation.
Minimum Requirements
Required License, Education:
- Must be a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Pennsylvania. No related or equivalent credentials will be considered.
- Master’s Degree from an accredited school.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work effectively in a fast-paced primary care environment.
- Displays exceptional interpersonal skills as part of a multi-disciplinary personnel team.
- Provides clinical assessment, patient care planning and effective treatment implementation to children, adults and families.
- Complete brief diagnostic assessments for mental health and other co-occurring addictive or medical disorders.
- Monitors and coordinates the delivery of health services for patients as related to behavioral care, including linking with other treatment providers not only within the primary care setting but, with the patient’s permission, outside it as well.
- Provides patients with self-management skills and educational information needed so they can be full participants in their own treatment.
- Provide and communicate recommendations for interventions.
- Prepare and maintain complex treatment and progress reports and document patient medical charts as needed which include diagnostic and treatment recommendations, discharge planning and follow-up services.