Licensed Clinical Social Worker

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_Position Overview_

Under general supervision, this exempt position is responsible for identifying, triaging, and managing patients with medical and behavioral health problems within the primary care setting in addition to performing a variety of assessments, treatment planning, counseling, education, and service coordination. Reports to the Director of Behavioral Health.

__Key Responsibilities__

• Conducts the initial face-to-face assessment, documents the face-to-face clinical supervision and review in the patients record; reviews medical, educational, and psychological information to form behavioral and cognitive interventions; develops an intervention plan and implements this plan with the provider, patient, and family/caregivers; and communicates directly with psychiatrist and PCP regarding patient’s progress towards goals.
• Maintains updated and accurate caseload based upon the volume of patients; verifies patient’s statements, completes evaluations and review sheets, sets up records and files; establishes plans for patients in self-sufficiency goals for the Providers on-going consultation on cases in real time; providing supportive services and establishing solutions for participation barriers; and possesses knowledge of basic human behavior with a working knowledge of practices of public service organizations.
• Identifies, enrolls, and tracks patients enrolled in the substance use collaborative care program, per department protocols and policies; identifies patients with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder who have not demonstrated improvement in their PHQ-9 scores and works to enroll them in the Collaborative Care program; provides assessments in real time, while the patient is in the office, seeing the primary care provider or psychiatrist as appropriate; and screens for substance use disorders and refers to appropriate agencies as appropriate.
• Provides short term intervention and treatment using evidence-based practices; provides verbal and written consultation to referring physicians/providers and other clinical staff on behalf of their patients; promotes early identification and intervention, and improve motivation for disease management (i.e. obesity, diabetes, hypertension); and works with physician and support staff to develop a common treatment plan for the patient.
• Develops and recommends either internal or external Behavioral Health options; plans, organizes, implements, and evaluates organizational risk control plans to minimize adverse impacts to the organization’s strategic goals; and develops, supports, and implements improvements to the departmental organizational climate, leadership development, and strategic initiatives.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with others in a positive and tactful manner under sometimes stressful situations; and exercises sound judgment, discretion, tact and resourcefulness in solving problems and drawing logical conclusions.
• Performs administrative support work such as word processing, creating spreadsheets, data entry and retrieval; orders, monitors and distributes program supplies/resources; and other information to ensure accuracy and conformance to established procedures and policies; and counsels patients regarding patient responsibilities and rights; adheres to patient confidentiality guidelines.
• Performs other duties as assigned.