About This Role
This role involves providing direct assessment, diagnosis formulation, treatment planning, treatment intervention, and psycho-education to members and/or family members as part of an interdisciplinary team. The Psychiatric Social Worker must be familiar with all aspects of psychopathology and recognize the appropriate and timely clinical treatment intervention needed, working primarily in direct patient care.
Responsibilities
- Provide timely and appropriate assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and treatment intervention for members
- Select appropriate treatment modality for members' presenting problems
- Communicate clinical material effectively to members and clinical staff
- Provide high internal and external customer/patient satisfaction
- Demonstrate expertise in a variety of treatment methodologies
- Provide appropriate and timely documentation of clinical encounters in members' charts
- Be knowledgeable of KP and community resources
- Adhere to all mandated guidelines for patients' clinical care and license
- Maintain license
- Conduct initial interviews with members by eliciting and interpreting the psychological and social meaning of complaints
- Determine urgency of members' needs
- Provide a professional interpretation of members' presentation and recommend a course of therapeutic action, selecting appropriate treatment modality
- Provide treatment to adults, adolescents, and children
- Render appropriate and immediate guidance and therapy for members in crisis or in need of clinical services
- Maintain written records of therapy, prepare reports and letters
- Phone, write, and visit (with member permission) social agencies, schools, relatives, and friends to obtain pertinent information
- Provide clinical consultation in an integrated health care environment regarding family interactions, sociocultural determinants, and community resources
- Provide telephone assessment, counseling, resource information, and referrals
- Be proficient in identifying and treating the span of developmental stages
- Be proficient in various treatment modalities including, but not limited to, individual, group, family, and child therapy
- Comply with organizational, departmental, state/federal guidelines, and all regulatory agency policies and procedures
- Participate in QM and CQI activities
Requirements
- Two (2) years of post-graduate mental health therapy experience within the last five (5) years
- Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, or other field related to behavioral health
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California)
