Psychiatric Social Worker II

County of Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Performs a wide variety of professional social work services for persons suffering from severe mental and emotional disturbances; and assists patients and their families in understanding and finding solutions to complex problems that lead to and result from mental illness and severe emotional disturbances. The County of Los Angeles is currently offering up to a 20% bonus for full-time Psychiatric Social Worker II positions hired by Correctional Health Services and working on-site in a designated facility to meet critical healthcare needs for the uniquely underserved jail population. This position is with the Los Angeles County's Department of Health Services, which is the second largest municipal health system in the nation. Through its coordinated system of 25 health centers and four acute hospitals and expanded network of community partner clinics – DHS annually provides direct care for 600,000 outstanding patients, employs over 23,000 staff, and has an annual budget of over $6.9 billion. Through academic affiliations with UCLA, USC, and CDU, DHS hospitals are training sites for physicians completing their Graduate Medical Education in nearly every medical specialty and subspecialty. In addition to its direct clinical services, DHS also runs the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency and the County's 911 emergency response system, as well as Housing for Health and the Office of Diversion and Re-entry, each with a meaningful role in connecting vulnerable populations, including those released from correctional and institutional settings, to supportive housing.

Requirements

• A valid and active license as a License Clinical Social Worker issued by the California Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Behavioral Sciences.
• A valid California Class C Driver License or the ability to use an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job related essential functions.
• All required licenses must be active and unrestricted or your application will not be accepted.

Nice To Haves

• Additional points will be awarded to candidates who have post licensure experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Responsibilities

• Interviews individuals and/or their families to obtain a family, social work, medical, and mental health treatment history.
• Makes an assessment of the patient's functioning in their environmental setting.
• Establishes a treatment plan designed to resolve or cope with the mental or emotional problem. The treatment plan may include individual, group, family or conjoint therapy, and/or referral to another treatment source such as a psychologist, vocational or rehabilitation counselor, psychiatrist for medication or another agency.
• Provides psychotherapy to individuals, groups, families, and significant others.
• Determines the duration of the therapy, the priorities of the problems to be dealt with, the therapy methods, and the need for changes in the treatment goals at successive intervals during treatment process.
• Interviews persons seeking psychiatric assistance on an emergency basis and utilizes crisis intervention techniques to prevent hospitalization and to aid the person in dealing with the emotional crisis.
• Assists clients, families, and significant others in understanding the mental health problem and their reactions to the problems, accepting the need for treatment, working toward the solution of the problem and stresses interfering with treatment or social functioning, modifying unrealistic attitudes and strengthening patients and families and significant others toward gaining their acceptance of and participation in treatment recommendations.

Benefits

• Flexible Benefit Plans - Benefits may be purchased using tax-free County contribution of an additional 14.5%-17% of the employee's monthly salary.
• Robust Retirement Packages - Contributory-defined benefit plan; optional tax-deferred income plans that may include a County matching contribution up to 4% of employee's salary.
• Generous Parental and Family Leave Benefits
• Ridesharing, Parking, and Transit Benefits
• 13 paid holidays per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level