Clinical Social Worker (A/B)

The Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital (WRCH) under the direction of the Department of Mental Health (DMH) is seeking experienced, dynamic, and compassionate candidates to serve as a Clinical Social Worker (A/B). The selected candidates will provide clinical casework assessment, treatment and discharge planning to patients and their families, provides clinical social work consolation to treatment team, other disciplines, and community agencies.

Please Note: There are multiple full-time positions as follows:

• The schedules for these positions are from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The days off are Saturday and Sunday.

Duties and Responsibilities (these are a general summary and not all inclusive):

• Provides clinical social work assessments of patients, this involves conducting clinical interviews with patients, families, and significant others to formulate a psychosocial assessment.
• Participates in the interdisciplinary treatment team by developing and implementing patients’ treatment plan.
• Implements treatment by providing individual, family and group therapy as indicated in the treatment plan.
• Plans and coordinates discharge planning, in collaboration of the treatment team, case management and the vendor community.
• Documents assessments, reports, and notes as is required by the Department of Social Work and DMH standards.
• Supervises social work graduate students as assigned by the Coordinator of the Internship program/Director of Social Work.
• Attends and participates in supervisor, ward, and discipline meetings.
• Provides social work consultation and training to hospital staff and community agency staff as assigned by supervisor/Director of Social Work.

 

Required Qualifications:

• Current and valid licensures as a Licensed Certified Social Worker or Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Social Work

Preferred Qualifications:

• Refinement of treatment, discharge planning and programmatic skills
• Knowledge of community service network
• Experienced supervisory skills
• Given the population served, bilingual or multilingual fluency is preferred. ASL preferred.   Candidates must be able to read, write and otherwise communicate in English.

About Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital (WHRC):

Located on over 100 acres in Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital (WRCH) is part of an integrated network of effective, efficient and culturally competent mental health services.  It provides intermediate and long-term inpatient care for individuals with serious and persistent mental illness who live in Massachusetts, as well as individuals requiring specialized court ordered evaluations.

WRCH provides inpatient services to 290 adults, inclusive of a Deaf Inpatient Mental Health Service, and 30 adolescents on the ACCU.

DMH Mission Statement:

The Department of Mental Health assures and p