About The Position
Join the team at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) BMT Mental Health Therapist. This full-time, first shift (Monday-Friday 8:00-4:30) position is located in the APH Outpatient Oncology Clinic. The role involves working with patients to promote optimum mental and emotional health, including completing pre-transplant psychosocial evaluations, high-risk screening for factors impacting transplant outcomes, establishing therapeutic relationships, and developing post-transplant plans. Responsibilities also include facilitating family meetings, bridging communication with the care team, providing crisis interventions, and utilizing knowledge of community resources. Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, located on the downtown Orlando campus, has provided compassionate care for over 30 years, boasting 156 licensed beds and expertise in over 30 pediatric specialties. It has consistently earned recognition from U.S. News & World Report and The Leapfrog Group, holds Magnet® Recognition for nursing excellence, and is a pediatric Level I Trauma Center. The hospital is part of the broader Orlando Health system, committed to professional and compassionate care and offering extensive benefits and career development opportunities.
Requirements
- Master’s degree.
- Maintains Florida state (Chapter 491 Florida Statutes) licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
- Handle with Care (HWC) Certification required for Behavioral Health Unit.
- Two (2) years of direct clinical experience, preferably in a health or mental health setting, with an emphasis on the population to be served in the assigned area.
Responsibilities
- Develops comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and clinical impressions responsive to age-appropriate patients/family’s needs and concerns.
- Provides differential diagnosis of mental/emotional disorders using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
- Diagnoses biopsychosocial functioning, disability, and impairment for the age-appropriate patients/families.
- Develops treatment intervention plans with clinical impressions. The plan is diagnostically driven and outcomes-focused with the patient/family and healthcare team.
- Develops an effective working relationship with patients/families to engage, collaborate, advocate, and problem-solve in order to support and enhance their mental health strengths and functioning ability.
- Utilizes differential diagnostic skills and employs various clinical treatment interventions, included but are not limited to crisis intervention, solution focused therapy, individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy, grief and bereavement counseling, play therapy, sand tray therapy, EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mental status exams.
- Initiates Baker Act.
- Facilitates Marchman Act when appropriate.
- Facilitates patient’s psychosocial adjustment along the continuum of care and transition to the next level of care.
- Provides mental health education, information, consultation, and professional support regarding patient/family needs to the healthcare team members and colleagues within the department.
- Demonstrates initiative and leadership in developing mental health services that respond to patient care demands.
- Identifies practice based on continuous quality improvement.
- Maintains an up-to-date, accurate, and appropriate record of mental health activities in patients’ medical chart, which does not violate confidentiality.
- Meets department/hospital expectations of growth goals set forth by coaching plans.
- Performs independently and provides clinical practice in a health care setting.
- Supervises and participates in teaching within the department, hospital, and community.
- When appropriate for the clinical setting, has subspecialty credentialing (i.e., sexual abuse, EMDR, CAP, CBT).
- Coordinates care and related functions appropriate for the patient population.
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
- Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional growth and advancement using a clinical ladder.
- Supportive and collaborative work environment.
- Continuing education and professional development opportunities.
- Retirement Savings Plan with up to 5% match.
- Financial savings accounts and Health Savings Accounts.
- Nearly 5 weeks of PTO in your 1st year of employment.
- Employer paid life insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability.
- Career-growing FREE education programs and well-being services to support you and your family through every stage of life.
- Benefits on day one.
- Flexibility wherever possible.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
