Inpatient Clinical Social Worker and Long Term Care Coordinator (CSW A/B)

The Department of Mental Health (DMH) is seeking a dynamic human service professional to serve as an Inpatient Clinical Social Worker and Long-Term Care Coordinator in a fast-moving, exciting, and rewarding environment. This professional will provide direct care in the DMH-run inpatient psychiatric hospital units of the Metro Boston Mental Health Units (MBMHU) within Lemuel Shattuck Hospital. The incumbent of this position will provide high quality and timely assessment, treatment planning and implementation, and discharge planning to an assigned caseload of patients who carry diagnoses of serious, persistent mental illness (SPMI).  In addition, a small portion of this individual’s time will be dedicated to coordinating transfers of patients to skilled nursing facilities as needed and as appropriate. The ideal candidate is a team player who is eager to learn, has excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and is compassionate, flexible, and creative. 

Please note:  This is a full-time, 40 hour position.  The hours are 8:30am – 5:00pm, Monday through Friday, with Saturday and Sunday as the days off.

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

·       Provides direct clinical care and care coordination services to assigned caseload

·       Provides concise and diagnostically accurate psychosocial evaluations for patients with serious mental illness as per CMS regulations and TJC standards

·       Participates with inpatient multi-disciplinary team to assess and treat inpatients

·       Coordinates and facilitates treatment planning meetings and periodic reviews in an efficient and timely fashion

·       Provides focused treatment through individual and group counseling

·       Participates in regularly-scheduled morning rounds, team meetings, case conferences, and social services meetings; and attend case conferences as needed in the community

·       Provides consultation and education to patients’ families and community supports, as appropriate, in order to enhance the patient’s return to the community

·       Develops and coordinates disposition plans in conjunction with the treatment team, taking into account developmental, racial, cultural and ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity issues that impact a patient’s aftercare needs

·       As needed, facilitates discharge of patients to Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF’s) in collaboration with the assigned team.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of human growth and development across the lifespan.
• Understanding of the social, emotional, and experiential causes of social and psychiatric disorders.
• Comprehension of the principals and practices of psychosocial evaluation and diagnosis, which include knowledge of applicable interviewing techniques for individuals and their families.