About the position
Ignite your career with passion and purpose as a full-time Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) at JWCH! Immerse yourself in the heart of Southern California, covering one or more of our Primary Care Clinics. As an LCSW, you'll provide critical behavioral health services, including crisis intervention, counseling, case management, and connecting patients with social services and housing resources. Your work will play a key role in improving both health and educational outcomes for our communities. Join a team where excellence is the norm - adhere to all JWCH and BBS behavioral health requirements, drive staff productivity, and champion patient satisfaction. Elevate your impact by offering supervision for ASWs on their licensure journey, contributing to the growth and success of the next generation of professionals. But that's not all, successful candidates will be eligible for exciting tuition repayment programs as JWCH is recognized as an FQCH.
Responsibilities
- Work at a Federally Qualified Health Center multidisciplinary team to ensure that the patient's clinical treatment goals and behavioral management needs are met by attending case conferences, chronic disease management meetings, staff consultation, and individual meetings with staff to ensure quality of care.
- Conduct functional and strength-based assessment along with comprehensive diagnosis for mental health, substance abuse, trauma, and psychosocial needs.
- Develop student care plans that are coordinated and integrated with a comprehensive range of medical and psychosocial services to address social, emotional, and practical needs.
- Provide in-person and remotely (via HIPAA Compliant software) psychotherapy, counseling, medical case management and psycho-education utilizing individual, family, and group modalities using evidence-based interventions for patients and their significant others.
- Utilize both short-term and intensive longer-term interventions, as approved by funding source that target trauma, mental health symptoms, increase psychosocial functioning and reduction of substance use.
- Consult with primary care providers to enhance understanding of the patient, provide support for treatment approaches that incorporate behavioral health needs, and assist with implementation of bio-psychosocial treatment and care plans.
- Work with ECM Case Management staff to coordinate care and provide referrals, coordinate services and reduce barriers.
- Participate in weekly case conferences to assist in problem solving related to patients and to ensure that professional guidance and high-quality case management services are being provided.
- Participate in community meetings pertaining to the needs of JWCH patients.
- Participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings that are held weekly in the clinics.
- Be available as assigned to provide after-hours emergency psychiatric assistance.
- Provide phone consultation as needed.
- Productivity goal is to average 8-10 patients per day.
- Complete all charting as required by JWCH, including assessments, progress notes, care plans, and billing documentation.
- Assist with provider education for integrated behavioral and primary care services.
- Participate in behavioral health quality assurance/improvement activities to maintain and strengthen standards of care.
Requirements
- Master's degree in social work, social welfare from an accredited college or university.
- LCSW with current California BBS license.
- Demonstrated understanding of the impact of trauma on behavioral and medical conditions.
- Knowledgeable of evidence-based treatments (sand and play therapy, DBT, CBT, Seeking Safety, Motivational Interviewing).
- Knowledge of principles, procedures, methods and techniques of mental health emergency procedures such as: 5150, CPS reporting, APS reporting, and Tarasoff reporting.
- Experience working with substance abuse disorders preferred.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) ability needed.
- All JWCH, Wesley Health Centers workforce members are recommended to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Benefits
- One-time bonus of $7,500 after one year of service, contingent upon successful performance evaluations.
- Generous educational loan repayment program(s).
- Monthly allowance to help cover medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees working 30 hours per week or more.
- Sick leave, vacation time, and 13 paid holidays each year.
- 401(k) Safe Harbor Profit Sharing plan.
- Mileage reimbursement.
- Short-term and long-term disability plans.
- Life insurance.
