Position Highlights
- Department: Mental Health Services Integrative Medicine
- Hours: 40.00 per week
- Shift: Shift 1
Position Summary
The Middlesex Health Beit Paley Center for Mental Health Services has an exciting full time LCSW opportunity. The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) will provide direct care including individual, couple, family and group therapeutic services to patients, including assessments, treatment plans and discharge planning in an Integrated Healthcare Model within Family Medicine. This position will work out of our East Hampton and Middletown family medicine locations.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Participates in direct care to assess needs and coordinate services to appropriate population (children, adolescents, adults and families)
- Provides initial mental health assessments resulting in measurement based care planning
- Assesses using standardized screening tools, measures, etc
- Provides brief, solution focused therapy
- Provide group psychoeducation/treatment related to specific diagnoses/presenting issues
- Provide information and referral services
- Participate in care coordination, clinical huddles, case discussions
- Maintains daily/weekly scheduled appointments in electronic records systems
- Provide therapeutic services to patients and their families
- Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary team members including external partners and agencies
- Completes required documentation and paperwork including biopsychosocial assessments and treatment planning and implementation in a timely manner
- Participate in our high risk program
- Demonstrates cultural competency and commitment to patients including LGBTQ+ community
- Maintain case load dependent on need
- Provides mentoring and training to newly hired staff as appropriate
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree in social work with a minimum of 5 years experience in the field
- Possession of valid clinical license in Connecticut
- Ability to diagnose using DSM 5
- Must have excellent writing and communication skills, be highly organized
- Must be able to work as a part of a team
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience providing direct clinical care within a collaborative or integrated framework.
- Additional certifications in specialized clinical care such as DBT, CBT, trauma informed care, etc.
- Experience/knowledge of substance use disorders
- Experience/competency in working with LGBTQ+
Comprehensive Benefits Offered
- Competitive and affordable benefits package
- Shift Differentials
- Continuing Education assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student Loan relief through Fiducius
- Quick commute access from I-84, Route 9 and surrounding areas
About Middlesex Health
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