Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Crisis & Triage Management - Hybrid

Company Description

CCG Talent Management is not only a business solutions company but a company that believes success starts with the individual. CCG Business Solutions has been consulting and providing talent placement services since 2007. Our team understands the principles of connecting purpose to business. We are currently recruiting for a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Job Description

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker will provide ambulatory behavioral health services including evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning, case management, and psychotherapeutic intervention to individuals, families, groups, and/or Intensive Outpatient Programs.

Responsibilities

• Assists with administration, development, implementation, and evaluation of social work programs and policies.
• Work as part of a team in the Call Center Advice Line, to provide telephonic triage and assessment for members requesting behavioral health services to facilitate the appropriate level of care.
• Provide telephonic crisis management for members seeking behavioral health services.
• Coordinate admissions and discharges for members requiring psychiatric admissions.
• Provide telephonic follow-up for post-hospital and ER discharges.
• Conducts clinical social work consultation. Performs clinical diagnosis, risk assessments, and crisis interventions.
• Provides psychotherapy and counseling for individuals, families, groups, and/or Intensive Outpatient Programs. Utilizes a wide range of evidence-based interventions and modalities. Provides services such as crisis intervention, brief therapy, cognitive and behavioral therapies, skills training, supportive therapy, stress management, and family therapy.
• Interview members and evaluate their psychological and mental status. Utilizes the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to diagnose patients. Determines if the member is in crisis, at-risk, or suicidal/homicidal. Refers members in need of immediate or urgent care to the appropriate level of services.
• Assesses urgent or high-risk clinical situations and makes appropriate interventions. Coordinates referral of the patient to a psychiatrist or other clinician. Assists with admission to hospital or other specialized facilities. Plans and provides services at the appropriate level of care. Assesses needs for mental health treatment and makes appropriate referrals as needed. Performs case management, coordination, and monitoring of social work service plans in areas of personal, social, or economic resources, conditions, or problems.
• Assesses treatment and prevention of psychosocial dysfunction, disability, or impairment, including emotional and mental disorders. Conducts preparation and evaluation of psychosocial assessments and development of social work service plans.
• Helps patients enhance or restore their capacities for personal and social functioning and preventing and controlling social problems.
• Gathers information and identifies resource and referral services for patient care. Educates the client regarding behavioral health services. Assists members in using services.
• Participates in or assists with therapeutic and educational group programs. Evaluates outcomes and effects of treatment for individual patients and programs.
• Researches, collects and records data and information relating to the identification and treatment of behavioral and interpersonal problems of patients. Proposes alternatives for interventions and approaches for resolutions.
• Collaborates and consults with physicians and other interdisciplinary clinical team members to support assessments and decision-making. Review difficult cases or quality assurance concerns with the clinical team. Acts as a consultant to team members and others in the organization.
• Maintains a high level of clinical expertise. Is knowledgeable of current clinical conditions, methods, medications, theoretical frameworks, and interventions. Utilizes best practices in the delivery of behavioral health services in accordance with professional and clinical guidelines. Utilizes evidence-based interventions and modalities with a sound theoretical base.
• Maintaining clinical records by documenting clinical assessments, treatment plans, interventions, and all pertinent information in patient medical records according to Regional and departmental guidelines.
• Participates in clinical team meetings, departmental planning, and quality management activities.
• Assesses patients in Emergency Departments on an after-hours and as-needed basis in service areas where there are privileges to provide mental health assessments and crisis intervention.
• Other clinical duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education
Masters Degree in social work from an accredited college or university, passing score on the clinical level national board examination, and supervised clinical social work training, as required by Hawaii Revised Statues (HRS) 467E-7.

License, Certification, Registration

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Hawaii)
• Basic Life Support required at hire from American Heart Association
• National Provider Identifier required at hire

Additional Requirements

• Knowledge and experience in conducting assessments and diagnostic evaluations using the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
• Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in adaptability, change management, conflict resolution, decision making, group process facilitation, influence, interpersonal relations, oral communication, problem-solving, quality management, teamwork, and written communication.
• Taxonomy code required at time of hire.
• Requires successful completion of the credentialing process upon hire.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in providing behavioral health services in a primary care setting.
• Experience in providing services to patients with addiction issues.
• Experience in providing Consultation/liaison Services to emergency departments.
• Experience in providing evidence-based treatment including conducting individual, and group therapy, intensive outpatient treatment, and/or partial hospitalization programs for children, and/or adults, including people with serious/chronic mental illness.
• Experience in writing treatment plans.
• The position requires working over the phone in highly stressful situations and with interruptions.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skill in documentation according to national accreditation guidelines.
• HHW-Integrated Behavioral Health Services & IP Medical Social Workers bargaining unit represented position.

Additional Information

Salary - $45.89 + 10,000 Sign on Bonus

Hybrid - Two days remote three days in the office

Travle - Yes, 50%

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.