Mental Health Therapist/ Social Worker, LCSW, LMSW, or MSW
Job Number: 1098005
Piedmont Macon Medical Center - Macon, Georgia
Shift/Schedule: Full-time
Description
POSITION SUMMARY:
Provide Psychiatric and/or Chemical Dependency counseling services to the patients admitted to Coliseum Center for Behavioral Health inpatient units.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Provides individual, group, and marital/ family therapy/ counseling in a variety of psychiatric settings
2. Performs Psychosocial Assessments
3. Provides treatment planning
4. Provides discharge planning including linkage to community resources, referral sources and post discharge care providers
5. Provides referrals for extended treatment or outpatient follow up
6. Conducts psychoeducational groups and classes for patients and families
7. Functions as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team
8. Makes Post Discharge Wellness Check Calls on discharged pateints
9. Ensures and maintains confidentiality and privacy of patient information
10. Maintains appropriate professional boundaries
11. Possesses excellent writing and verbal skills
12. Is knowledgeable of and follows all policies in daily job performance
13. Actively seeks ways to control costs without compromising patient safety, quality of care or the delivered.
14. Attends in-service presentations and completes all mandatory education requirements.
15. Regular, punctual and dependable attendance.
16. Other duties as assigned.
17. Practices, develops and endorses customer service skills in relationships with internal and external customers.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS:
A. Core Competencies:
1. Service: Strives to meet expectations/needs of customers; responds to concerns with sense of urgency; seeks win-win solutions for unreasonable patient/customer expectations
2. Quality/Ethics/Integrity: Seeks opportunities for improvement; prevents small problems from becoming large ones; pays attention to detail; follows instructions and protocol/procedures; adheres to company code of conduct; maintains integrity in all aspects of his/her work
3. Relationships: Builds effective working relationships; finds and provides information to clarify situations; expands on original ideas; contributes own ideas; places high priority on other team members’ goals; gains team agreement to support ideas; clearly explains rationale behind ideas/goals; demonstrates sensitivity to differing cultural views and needs; meets attendance and punctuality requirements
4. Adaptability: Seeks to understand changes in work tasks/processes; actively seeks information about new tasks/processes; treats change and new tasks/processes as opportunities for learning and personal growth; speaks positively about changes to others; quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with change
B. Job Specific: As defined in department specific competencies
Requirements
EDUCATION REQUIRED AND/OR PREFERRED:
Master’s degree required
LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION:
Professional certification and/or licensure as LCSW; LMSW; LMFT; LPC or actively pursuing such certification and/or licensure with projected completion within 2.5 years of hire required.
American Red Cross or American Heart Association Basic Life Support Course (BLS or BCLS) and Certification
CPI certification within the first 90 days of employment required
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED OR PREFERRED: Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a clinical setting, either inpatient or outpatient / partial hospital setting addressing both psychiatric and chemical dependency issues with clients. A minimum of two years of supervised experience in psychiatric setting or addictive disease treatment setting, or minimum of three years of continuous active recovery in twelve step program.
Strong communication skills in both oral and written format. Flexibility to intervene on a moment’s notice. Ability to problem-solve and seek assistance from team members when necessary. Knowledgeable in innovative therapeutic interventions for the population served.
Diversity & Inclusion
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Excellence at Work
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