Description: Job Summary:
Provides supervised clinical social work services to adults, children and families with emotional and/or social problems utilizing established psychotherapeutic techniques in both inpatient and outpatient settings; consults and collaborates with members of the patients family and other health care professionals.
Essential Responsibilities:
•Under supervision and referring to and utilizing licensed staff for appropriate decisions when necessary conducts initial interviews with member by eliciting and understanding the psychological and social meaning of complaints, symptoms, current and past history, to determine the nature and urgency of members need.
•Provides member with a professional understanding of his/her presentation, recommends a course of action such as beginning therapy or counseling, or a specific action plan that member can carry out without additional professional guidance or consultation.
•Provides clinical case management services to adults, adolescents and children; selects and uses appropriate treatment modality in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
•Renders appropriate immediate guidance and therapeutic services to help individuals and families cope with emotional crisis or psychiatric emergencies.
•Maintains a written record of therapy or counseling sessions; prepares reports and letters concerning patient; phones, writes and visits, with clients signed written permission, social agencies schools, relatives, friends, etc., to obtain pertinent information.
•Provides telephone counseling, resource information, and referral services.
•Participates in departmental/ locational project assignments and activities such as CQI activity and OD duty.
•Provides psycho-education for members in context of a prescribed treatment.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
N/A Education Master of Social Work degree, or Master's degree in a related Behavioral Health field from an accredited College or University setting.
License, Certification, Registration Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker (California) OR Associate Professional Clinical Counselor Registration (California) Additional Requirements: Once hired as an Associate, an employee will be offered and must work a schedule that would accumulate at least half of the required supervisory hours annually.
Upon completion of supervised hours, the employee must obtain state licensure within two and one-half (2.5) years.
If hired as a license-eligible employee (i.e.
has completed all clinical hours), the employee has two and one-half (2.5) years from their date of hire to complete state licensure.
Notes: Will need to work weekends and two (2) evening per week.
Will provide treatment to lifespan.
Primary Location: California,Laguna Hills,Laguna Hills Mental Health
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Working Hours Start: 07:00 AM
Working Hours End: 07:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B11-PSC|NUHW|NUHW Psych Social Chapter
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: Laguna Hills Office - Mental Hlth/Psychiatry-RegClin - 0806
Pay Range: $40.37 - $49.1 / year The ranges posted above reflect the location in the job posting.
The salary range may vary if you reside in a different location or state than the location posted.
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home.
Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.
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