Social Worker (LCSW) (Outpatient)
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Adventist Health Portland has been caring for East Portland since 1893, growing alongside the community we serve. Today, more than 2,300 employees are dedicated to whole-person care, mind, body and spirit, across our 302-bed medical center, emergency department, and network of clinics, urgent care, home care and hospice services. The Adventist Health Northwest Heart Center, located on our medical center campus, provides advanced cardiovascular care, bringing together expert providers, innovative treatments and compassionate support for patients across the region.
Job Summary:
Provides psychosocial assessments, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as discharge planning to and consultation about patients and families to assist them and the health care team in coping with patient's hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, treatment, and/or life situation, including emotional, mental, and substance abuse disorders. Functions in a supervisory role as a team leader.
Job Requirements:
Education and Work Experience:
- Master’s Degree in social work: Required
- Three years' experience with clinical responsibility to include crisis intervention, individual and group psychotherapy: Preferred
- Experience in working with behavioral health clients providing direct assessment, diagnosis formulation, treatment planning, treatment intervention and education to members and/or family members: Preferred
Licenses/Certifications:
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in state of practice: Required
Essential Functions:
- Provides psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.
- Formulates, develops, and implements a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan utilizing appropriate clinical social work treatments and interventions. Provides crisis intervention, brief and long-term individual, marital, family and/or group therapies as well as grief and bereavement work.
- Participates in multi-disciplinary health care teams and provide leadership in representing clinical social work perspective/liaison with patient and family.
- Documents assessment plans, interactions, and interventions according to departmental, hospital and/or health system guidelines and standards.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Organizational Requirements:
Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our associates and patients. Therefore, we require that all associates receive all required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable. Medical and religious exemptions may apply.
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