Provides assessment, diagnosis, treatment and crisis intervention as needed to members who present themselves for psychiatric evaluation. Collaborates with treating physician, psychiatric and allied health professional team to plan and direct each individual member's treatment program.
Essential Functions:
- Assesses, develops and coordinates a clinical treatment program for Health Plan members with acute or chronic psychiatric disorders.
- Consults with staff regarding diagnosis, strengths and deficits of member, as needed or appropriate.
- Provides outpatient psychotherapy to individuals and groups.
- Charts member's treatments and progress in accordance with state regulations and department procedures.
- Instructs and counsels members regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens.
- Interprets psychiatric treatment to member's family and helps to reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of psychiatric care and continuation of treatment if asked to do so by member.
- Makes referrals to case manager, as appropriate, and/or refers member's family to community support services and resources.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of members.
- Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating members for psychotropic medications.
- May supervise PSW Assistants and PSW Interns, if supervision course has been completed.
- Works on-call evenings, weekends & holidays, assuming primary responsibility for emergency psychiatric care and acting as consultant to emergency department physicians and staff.
- Reports safety concerns to mandated reporting agencies.
Secondary Functions:
-Position may be subjected to relocate to other DSA sites.
-Based in the emergency department and inpatient hospital, duties consist of psychiatric assessments, evaluations and consultation, among other duties as needed.
- Duties also include the maintenance of discharged patient lists, and making appointment reminder calls to discharged patients to enhance the attendance rate of follow up appointments.
- Performs hospital consultation, crisis evaluations, individual and group therapy, case management, short-term therapy, and working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Provide case management services for adult and child patients with the persistent and/or chronic mental illness
- Conduct initial and ongoing DSM-based mental health evaluations and diagnoses
- Provide crisis intervention, family-focused treatment planning, and conflict resolution service
- Should have experience with providing group-based mental health services.
- Complete and maintain computerized documentation of treatment services - Develop treatment plans and coordinate care across various internal and external service modalities
- Participation in Department and Service Team meetings as well as educational activities as approved by Supervisor
- Maintain current licensing status and complete related continuing education and KP-defined competency training
- Evening hours and evening/weekend hospital consultation (on-call) service is required per operational need.Hours may be subject to change due to operational needs.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the members' treatment to include referral of the member and/or member's family to external resources.
- Establishes liaisons to utilize resources of public and private agencies/community organizations to meet member and program needs.
- May conduct evaluations in Medicare, Social Security, and state disability cases.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Outpatient Psychiatric Social Worker:Has experience in assessing, diagnosing and treating a broad range of psychiatric conditions.
- Master's degree in Social Work required from an accredited college or university.
- Valid Licensed Clinical Social Worker license in the State of California.
OR MFT:
- Master's degree in Applied Behavioral Science required.
- Current license as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in the State of California.
- Previous post license, paid experience as a member of a psychiatric treatment team in an outpatient setting/program under licensed supervision (usually two to four years).
- Has experience in assessing, diagnosing and treating a broad range of psychiatric conditions.
- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI) or obtain NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Must be familiar with DMS-IV-R as a means of diagnosis.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Knowledge of social service agencies, state regulations, and professional board standards as is related to member treatment, patient rights, and member/patient confidentiality.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Inpatient Psychiatric Social Worker:
- Working in an inpatient setting, a minimum of three years post licensure experience in acute inpatient psychiatric settings and with the use of psychosocial assessment and psychotherapeutic methods and measures in a hospital, clinic or agency preferred.
- Previous clinical responsibility to include crisis intervention, individual and group psychotherapy preferred.
- Previous clinical responsibility to include inpatient group treatment and crisis intervention preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Comfortable working with an ethnically and culturally diverse patient population.
- Credentialing and Privileging approval for ANT Medical Centers.
- Ability to also work with children, adolescents and their families would be beneficial, but not required.
- Bilingual/ Bi-cultural strongly encouraged to apply.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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