Job Title

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

Job Summary

Provides psychosocial evaluations, psychotherapeutic interventions, case management and discharge planning services for patients and/or their families. Provides and acts as a liaison for physician, patient and/or family between the hospital, community agencies and facilities.

Essential Functions

• All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

• Performs intake assessment/evaluation of family dynamics and treatment needs, including creation of treatment plan.

• Prepares case history of patient's personal, social, and emotional development.

• Assists patients to evaluate both their strengths and symptoms, and facilitate patients setting their own goals, and plan for appropriate services.

• Provides therapeutic intervention with patient family including individual, marital, parental, family and group therapies.

• Interprets nature of illness and prescribed course of treatment to patient and families. Communicates family issues to other staff members.

• Helps patients develop social skills, interests, and leisure time activities to provide a sense of participation and personal worth, including opportunities for age appropriate, culturally appropriate activities.

• Assists patients to identify appropriate employment opportunities and vocational rehabilitation services. Functions as Designated Examiner which involves the commitment process, designated exam, provide testimony for probate courts.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities

• This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director or executive.

Minimum Requirements

• Education - Master's degree in Social Work or Counseling, Psychology or related field of study.

• Experience - Two (2) years post-graduate behavioral health/counseling experience. Inpatient psychiatric hospital experience, clinical assessments and case management experience preferred.

Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses

• Medical Social Worker MSW OR

• Licensed Social Worker CP LISW-CP OR

• Licensed Social Worker LISW-AP OR

• Licensed Professional Counselor LPC or LPCA

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Assessment skills

• Discharge planning skills

• Computer skills

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Location

Marshall Pickens Hospital

Facility

1007 Marshall I Pickens Hospital

Department

10077503 Social Work

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