Job Description

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.

In Lieu Of

N/A

Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses

• Licensed Master Social Worker LMSW OR
• Licensed Social Worker CP LISW-CP OR
• Licensed Social Worker LISW-AP OR
• Licensed Professional Counselor LPC or LPCA OR
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist LMFT

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Assessment skills
• Discharge planning skills
• Computer skills

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Location

Marshall Pickens Hospital

Facility

Marshall I Pickens Hospital

Department

Day Treatment

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