Advanced Clinical Social Worker (40 Hour) Office/On-site #261027-0965FP-001

State of Connecticut; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive state employee benefits

Professional growth opportunities

Healthy work/life balance

Job summary

Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) in New Haven seeks an Advanced Clinical Social Worker to lead complex treatment plans for adults with serious psychiatric conditions. You will collaborate with psychiatrists, nurses, and clinicians to ensure integrated care and strong clinical judgment.

The role involves managing a high-acuity caseload, supporting both agency and community-based services, and promoting a coordinated team approach across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Requires licensed clinical social work practice and leadership within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience delivering psychiatric and case management services to adults with serious mental illness.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric and case management services to adults with serious psychiatric disorders.
• Deliver services in agency and community settings to support individuals across care environments.
• Manage a high-acuity caseload including treatment-refractory clients on Clozapine, coordinating with psychiatrists and nurses.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Case management

Crisis intervention

Education

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)

Job description

Introduction

Seeking a clinician who brings strong clinical judgment and steady leadership to support complex care for adults with serious psychiatric conditions. The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) has an opening for an Advanced Clinical Social Worker (PCN 155481) at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) Clinical Services Team E in New Haven. Team E has a high percentage of clients who are treatment refractory who are prescribed Clozapine, which necessitates close management and collaboration with the team psychiatrists, nurses, and clinicians.

Schedule

• 1st shift : 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM


• Full‑time, 40 hours per week


• Monday – Friday

What We Can Offer You

• Comprehensive state employee benefits


• Access the State Employee Benefits Overview page to explore available options


• Professional growth and development opportunities


• A commitment to promoting a healthy work/life balance

Position Highlights

• Provide psychiatric and case management services to adults with serious psychiatric disorders, including co‑occurring substance use needs


• Deliver services in both agency and community settings to support individuals across care environments


• Manage a high‑acuity caseload including treatment‑refractory clients prescribed Clozapine, requiring close coordination with psychiatrists, nurses, and clinicians


• Implement a coordinated team‑based approach involving psychiatrists, social workers, registered nurses, and case managers


• Other duties as assigned

A comprehensive medical examination, including drug screening, is required following a conditional offer of employment. All state employees must comply with Connecticut’s Drug‑Free Workplace Policy.

About Us

DMHAS is dedicated to promoting the health and wellness of individuals with behavioral health needs through an integrated, holistic network of services that foster dignity, respect, and self‑sufficiency. CMHC provides comprehensive mental health treatment to individuals with serious behavioral health disorders that often frequent the local hospital emergency rooms, are frequently involved in the court systems and require a variety of clinical services to provide stability, medication management and treatment.

Purpose of job class (nature of work)

In a state agency behavioral health program as part of a multi-disciplinary team at one or more locations this class is accountable for skilled clinical social work treatment and leadership services involving complex case assignments.

Examples of duties

• Independently provides highly skilled direct clinical social work treatment and/or substance abuse services to clients with complex psychological and social problems through comprehensive clinical assessments and provision of individual, family and group treatment;


• Provides individual field work instruction and/or clinical supervision which includes instruction in use of comprehensive psychosocial assessments and current diagnostic categories, taking into consideration cultural, social, economic, medical, environmental and legal issues;


• Develops comprehensive service plans including measurable treatment objectives;


• Initiates consultation and collaboration with other mental health providers to improve delivery of current services and/or identify unmet needs within current service system;


• Provides clinical supervision to Licensed Master Social Workers;


• Assists in resolution of administrative, personnel and clinical issues in program and/or agency;


• Develops data for statistical and planning systems and/or research and publication;


• Prepares administrative reports and suggests operational policies and procedures;


• Oversees development and/or implementation of individual client treatment and/or service plans;


• May be assigned administrative oversight of research projects;


• May provide clinical and/or administrative leadership to program components such as crisis intervention teams, inpatient treatment teams, case management teams, psychoeducational program services, psychosocial rehabilitation and forensic services;


• May provide forensic evaluations and expert testimony to courts;


• May represent program or agency during licensing and certification inspections conducted by regulatory bodies;


• May represent program or agency in liaison relationships with other community agencies and resources;


• May provide in-service educational presentations concerning available health, mental health and human services resources and means to access them;


• May chair facility or community-based committees that develop policies and plans to serve psychiatrically disabled individuals;


• May present information on mental illness and mental health services to community groups;


• Performs related duties as required.

Knowledge, skill and ability

• Considerable knowledge of
  
  
  
  • and ability to instruct others about theories of human behavior, current diagnostic categories of mental illness, family dynamics, substance abuse and human sexuality;
  
  
  • of social, cultural, economic, political, religious, medical, psychological and legal issues which influence behavior of clients, families, service programs and society at large;
  
  
  
  


• Knowledge of
  
  
  
  • statutes, regulations and standards relating to mental health services;
  
  
  • state law governing licensed clinical social worker practice standards;
  
  
  
  


• Considerable
  
  
  
  • oral and written communication skills;
  
  
  • administrative skills;
  
  
  
  


• Considerable ability to independently apply in practice current psychiatric treatment modalities including but not limited to behavioral, cognitive, object-relations, crisis intervention and psychosocial rehabilitation approaches;


• Ability to
  
  
  
  • integrate theory and case material in assessing and devising comprehensive treatment and/or service plans for difficult and/or complex case assignments;
  
  
  • lead task groups including but not limited to treatment teams and agency committees.
  
  
  
  

Minimum qualifications - general experience

One (1) year of experience as a licensed clinical social worker.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in a leadership role helping to cover unit/team


• Experience coordinating and prioritizing multiple crises/projects simultaneously using effective organizational strategies


• Experience multi-tasking and working in a fast-paced clinical environment

Special requirements

• Incumbents in this class must possess and retain a license to practice clinical social work pursuant to Sec. 20-195 (m-z) of the Connecticut General Statutes.


• Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain eligibility for participation in federal health care programs as defined in 42 U.S.


• 1320a-7b(f).


• Incumbents in this class may be required to have knowledge of sign language and communication ability with the deaf and hearing impaired in designated positions.


• Incumbents in this class may be required to have ability in Spanish oral and written communication in designated positions.


• Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.

Conclusion

AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

Affirmative action/Equal opportunity employer

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Acknowledgement

As defined by Sec. 5-196 of the Connecticut General Statutes, a job class is a position or group of positions that share general characteristics and are categorized under a single title for administrative purposes. As such, a job class is not meant to be all-inclusive of every task and/or responsibility.