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Founded in 1965, Telecare is a rapidly growing mental health care company dedicated to making a difference for our clients, the community, and our employees. We offer an array of mental health services to adults with serious mental illness. We partner with public sector entities and behavioral health organizations, and have over 122 programs and over 3,680 employees across the country. And we're growing all the time! When you work at Telecare, you help to empower thousands of individuals every day in their journeys of recovery.

As a part of the Telecare Family, La Paz is a 130 bed Gero-Psychiatric center which serves adults 65 and older.

Employment Status:  Full-Time

Shift:  AM, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Days:  Monday - Friday as needed

Under supervision of a licensed clinician, the Social Work Clinician II provides clinical and casework services to members served and natural supports. This involves person centered recovery planning and collaborating with other services and agencies.

Required:

• A Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited graduate school and working towards licensure and registered with the Board of Behavioral Science

• One (1) year of direct service experience with individuals with severe mental illness in an inpatient or outpatient setting is required

• Criminal justice clearance and education verification

• Must be at least 18 years of age

• Must be CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment and maintain current certification throughout employment

• All opportunities at Telecare are contingent upon successful completion and receipt of acceptable results of the applicable post-offer physical examination, 2-step PPD test for tuberculosis, acceptable criminal background clearances, excluded party sanctions, and degree or license verification. Position requires driving, valid driver license, a motor vehicle clearance, and proof of auto insurance is required at time of employment and must be maintained throughout employment. Additional regulatory, contractual, or local requirements may apply.

Preferred:

• Previous experience with population to be served and/or work in a similar program setting

• Demonstrates the Telecare mission, purpose, values, and beliefs in everyday language and contact with internal and external stakeholders

• Provides safe, effective, and efficient implementation of direct care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and standards of care

• Works with members served and multidisciplinary treatment teams to design, implement, and evaluate the Recovery Plan

• Under clinical supervision, establishes and maintains a therapeutic relationship with members served

• Ensures provision of needed clinical services to assigned members served; coordinates ongoing treatment within the program and with outside agencies

• Provides individual and group therapy

• Documents all treatment provided in a thorough and consistent manner

• Collaborates with other staff in the discharge planning process and makes linkages to community services for members served

• Actively participates in multidisciplinary team meetings and recovery planning meetings

• Demonstrates knowledge of de-escalation techniques and crisis communication and management

• Serves as a clinical consultant to recovery team members

• Must assist with restraint of members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training

Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted, and/or changed at the discretion of management.