Job description

Job Title: Social Worker

Location: Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Shift: 8:30am to 5pm

Duration: 3 months

Orientation:Onsite orientation is given the first week of every month.

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide concise and diagnostically accurate psychosocial evaluations for patients with serious mental illness as per CMS regulations and TJC standards

• Develop and coordinate disposition plans in conjunction with the treatment team, taking into account developmental, racial, cultural, and ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity issues that impact a patient’s aftercare needs

• Provide focused treatment through individual and group counseling

• Provide consultation and education to patients’ families and community supports, as appropriate, in order to enhance the patient’s return to the community.

• Participate in regularly scheduled morning rounds, team meetings, case conferences, and social services meetings; and attend case conferences as needed in the community.

• Represent the Department of Social Work within multidisciplinary team, attend unit leadership meetings, clinical management and other meetings as assigned

• Coordinate and facilitate treatment planning meetings and periodic reviews in an efficient and timely fashion

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of human growth and development across the lifespan.

• Knowledge of the social, emotional, and experiential causes of social and psychiatric disorders.

• Knowledge of principles and techniques to help individuals, families, groups, and communities enhance their individual and collective well-being by developing their skills and their ability to use their own resources and those of the community to resolve problems.

• Knowledge of the principals and practices of psychosocial evaluation and diagnosis, which includes knowledge of applicable interviewing techniques for individuals and their families.

• Knowledge of assessment and treatment of substance use and co-occurring disorders

• Knowledge of community resources and how to access them for patient treatment, disposition planning, and patient follow-up.

• Ability to establish and maintain professional working relationships with others, and to establish rapport and interact with people who are under stress and to handle stressful and emergent situations.

• Ability to establish and sustain therapeutic relationships.

• Ability to interpret and coordinate treatment plans among a variety of human service personnel and delivery systems.

• Familiarity and comfort working with multidisciplinary teams to analyze complex problems, build consensus and implement organizational improvements.

• Ability to effectively communicate information and ideas, both spoken and in writing.

• Ability to develop plans to accomplish work and prioritize and organize one’s own work, often in stressful situations

• Ability to work with resistant patients, handle complaints, arbitrating disputes, and resolving problems or otherwise negotiate with others.

• Ability to understand and apply relevant laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, and agency rules

• Ability to combine, evaluate and reason with information and data to make decisions and solve problems, taking into consideration the relative importance of information and choosing the best solution.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience of inpatient mental health treatment and services.

• Knowledge of terminology used specifically in an inpatient setting

• Knowledge and understanding of Federal, State, and local public entitlement programs and Medicare/Medicaid

• Knowledge of and experience applying Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission (TJC) regulations and standards

• Given the population served, bilingual or multilingual fluency

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Salary: $34.09 per hour

Medical specialties:

• Psychiatry

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Jamaica Plain, MA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

License/Certification:

• Clinical Social Worker Massachusetts Licensure (Required)
• BLS Certification (Required)

Work Location: One location

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