Clinical Social Worker (D)

Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital is seeking a qualified Senior Clinical Social Worker (D) to cover the Director of Clinical Social Work as needed, participate in hospital wide committees, provide administrative oversight to units / staff, clinical support / coverage for each unit, and clinical supervision for the Clinical Social Work C and A/B staff. Provides direct clinical care to patients, which includes completing timely initial assessments, participating in treatment team planning, providing individual / family therapy, co-leading hospital wide and milieu groups, and developing / coordinating discharge plans with forensic evaluators, court liaisons / clinicians, probation officers, and community services with includes case managers, outpatient psychiatric treatment agencies / providers, substance abuse programs, and primary care agencies / providers.

Please Note\: This is a full-time, 40-hour position. The hours are 8\:30 a.m. – 5\:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, with Saturday and Sunday as the days off.

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive)\:

• Provides highly skilled clinical services to patients and families including psychosocial assessments, diagnosis and current psychosocial histories. This involves conducting clinical interviews with patients, their families and significant others.

• Initiates a clinical leadership role in the interdisciplinary treatment team for the purpose of developing, implementing and revising patient treatment plans.

• Implements treatment by providing a flexible array of highly skilled interventions including individual, family and group therapy as designated in the current treatment plan.

• Assumes a leadership role in planning, developing, and coordinating the patient’s discharge plans in collaboration with the treatment team and case manager.

• Documents initial psychosocial history and/or update, progress notes and aftercare treatment plan in the patient’s record according to the Dept. of Clinical Social Work and DMH standards and time frames.

• Assesses patient’s eligibility for entitlements and assists patients in making applications.

• Initiates leadership in identifying, developing and implementing the therapeutic milieu of the ward.

• Provides clinical supervision to clinical social workers and graduate students as assigned by the Chief of Clinical Social Work.

• Provides highly skilled clinical social work consultation and training to other disciplines and community agencies as assigned by Chief of Clinical Social Work.

• Participates in supervision, ward and discipline meetings.

• Assists in department and hospital committees as assigned by the supervisor/ Director of Social Work