Social Worker (LCSW) (Outpatient)

Adventist Health • Portland, OR

2d • $35 - $52

About The Position

Provides psychosocial assessments, diagnosis, and treatment, along with discharge planning and consultation for patients and families. Helps patients, families, and the health care team cope with hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, treatment, and life situations, including emotional, mental, and substance abuse disorders. Functions in a supervisory role as a team leader.

The role includes assessing psychosocial strengths and problems, developing and implementing treatment plans, providing individual, marital, family, and group therapies, and participating in multidisciplinary health care teams. The Social Worker documents assessments, plans, interactions, and interventions in accordance with applicable guidelines and standards.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in social work.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of practice.
• All required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply.

Nice To Haves

• Three years of experience with clinical responsibility, including crisis intervention and individual and group psychotherapy.
• Experience working with behavioral health clients, providing direct assessment, diagnosis formulation, treatment planning, treatment intervention, and education to members and/or family members.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to diagnosis, illness, treatment, or life situation.
• Formulate, develop, and implement comprehensive psychosocial treatment plans using appropriate clinical social work treatments and interventions.
• Provide crisis intervention; brief and long-term individual, marital, family, and/or group therapies; and grief and bereavement work.
• Participate in multidisciplinary health care teams and provide leadership by representing the clinical social work perspective and liaising with patients and families.
• Document assessments, plans, interactions, and interventions according to departmental, hospital, and/or health system guidelines and standards.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
• Function in a supervisory role as a team leader.
• Provide discharge planning and consultation to patients, families, and the health care team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time