Advanced Clinical Psych Social Worker

Responsible for independent clinical practice, providing individual, family, and/or group psychotherapy with children, adolescents, and their parents. Provides evaluation and assessment of children/adolescents mental health needs including psychiatric diagnoses and treatment recommendations. Provides referrals for services as indicated. Provides collaborative consultation to the Attending psychiatrist regarding the child/adolescent functioning and progress.
Full time weekday position in outpatient psychiatry providing individual and family therapy with children, adolescents, and their parents.,Minimum Education
Master's Degree (Required)
Minimum Work Experience
3 years (Required)
Required Skills/Knowledge
Ability to diagnose and provide evidence based interventions to children, adolescents, and parents.
Required Licenses and Certifications
Ind. Clinical Social Worker (Required)
Functional Accountabilities
Diagnostic Assessment
Formulates diagnoses for patients with acute or chronic mental health disorders. Diagnostically interprets data obtained from psychological test results, social histories, and interviews. Provides risk assessments for dangerousness to self and others.
Individual Psychotherapy
Provides crisis stabilization and crisis management
Is able to form a therapeutic alliance with patients from a variety of diverse backgrounds
Able to use a variety of therapeutic tools and evidence based treatment modalities
Monitors and provides feeback to treatment team psychiatrist on any reported impacts of psychotropic medication on patient's functioning and mental status
Completes required electronic documentation in a clear, concise, and timely manner
Continuously updates professional knowledge of current treatment techniques and research through attendance at seminars, continuing education courses, workshops, etc
Family Psychotherapy
Utilizes a theoretical framework for the focus of the family intervention
Able to encourage positive communication among family members
Recognizes progress and obstacles towards treatment goals and appropriately intervenes
Group Psychotherapy
Able to screen potential group members for appropriateness of group therapy
Able to express the goals of the group
Utilizes a theoretical framework for the workings of the group
Recognizes individual's progress/lack of progress in the group setting and appropriately intervenes.
Crisis/Linkage Services
Able to provide crisis intervention skills to highly distressed children and families
Able to assess for safety
Knowledgeable of community resources/supports for children and families to assist in the attainment of the treatment goals.
Organizational Accountabilities
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met
Teamwork/Communication
Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
Partner with all team members to achieve goals
Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions
Performance Improvement/Problem-solving
Contribute to a positive work environment
Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment
Cost Management/Financial Responsibility
Use resources efficiently
Search for less costly ways of doing things
Safety
Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance