Master's Social Worker

Medical University of South Carolina•Charleston, SC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Master's Social Worker for Pediatric Partial/IOP reports to the Program Coordinator. This role is responsible for providing individual, group, and family psychotherapeutic treatment to patients and their families. The position involves a wide variety of direct social worker services in an outpatient psychiatric setting for a complex caseload of patients, including psychological assessment, active treatment, discharge planning, case management, and related documentation in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary treatment team. The Master's Social Worker will provide therapy, case management services, and linkages to community agencies to meet patients' social and emotional needs. This includes identifying and assessing client/patient cases, anticipating needs related to illness, hospitalization, finances, education, and home or community services, and serving as a liaison between healthcare facilities, community resources, and government agencies. The role involves providing individual and group therapy to children and adolescent patients in an outpatient community psychiatry treatment clinic within an academic medical center. Responsibilities include interviewing patients, families, and other providers to assess the patient's level of functioning, strengths, deficits, and emotional status, developing a comprehensive picture of the patient’s treatment needs, and serving as a member of the treatment team in diagnostic evaluation and identification of treatment objectives. Specific duties include providing evidenced-based treatment for patients at CDT, offering group, Family-Based Treatment, and individual treatment, providing therapeutic support, developing treatment plans, monitoring and documenting progress, and facilitating discharge planning to meet compliance and billing requirements and ensure successful return to community resources. Program therapists work within a multidisciplinary team of therapists, medical providers, and families to ensure comprehensive treatment and participate in weekly clinical team meetings.

Requirements

Master's degree in a social work or social welfare program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
MSW licensure by the South Carolina Board of Social Work Examiners.

Nice To Haves

Certification in case management preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide individual, group, and family psychotherapeutic treatment to patients and their families.
Provide a wide variety of direct social worker services in an outpatient psychiatric setting for a complex caseload of patients.
Conduct psychological assessment, active treatment, discharge planning, and case management.
Complete related documentation in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary treatment team.
Provide therapy, case management services, and linkages to community agencies to meet patients' social and emotional needs.
Identify and assess client/patient cases and anticipate their needs related to illness, hospitalization, finances, education, and home or community services.
Serve as a liaison between health care facilities, community resources, and government agencies.
Provide individual and group therapy to children and adolescent patients in an outpatient community psychiatry treatment clinic.
Interview patient, family, and any other providers to assess the patient's level of functioning, strengths and deficits, and emotional status.
Develop a comprehensive picture of the patient’s treatment needs.
Serve as a member of the treatment team in the diagnostic evaluation of patients and the identification of treatment objectives.
Provide evidenced-based treatment for patients at CDT.
Provide group, Family-Based Treatment, and individual treatment.
Provide therapeutic support.
Develop treatment plans, monitor and document progress, and facilitate discharge planning to meet compliance and billing requirements and successfully return the patient to community resources.
Work within a multidisciplinary team of therapists, medical providers, and families to ensure comprehensive treatment.
Participate in weekly clinical team meetings with a multi-disciplinary team of medical providers and therapists.