Clinic Case Worker/ Sr. Clinic Case Worker/ LCSW

State of Missouri; Farmington (MO); On-site; USD 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center, operated by the Missouri Department of Mental Health, seeks a Senior Clinical Caseworker to join the Adult Psychiatric Services team in Farmington, MO. The role focuses on providing clinical casework within an interdisciplinary team and applying evidence-based treatment approaches.

Responsibilities include admissions, social diagnosis and aftercare planning, with emphasis on evaluating client needs, functioning, and adherence to regulations.

Qualifications

• Advance professional position providing clinical casework services to persons with mental illness and/or development or physical disabilities.
• Compiles comprehensive case histories for medical and treatment staff.
• Participates in admission, diagnosis, prognosis, progress review, and aftercare planning with an interdisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical casework services to adults with psychiatric needs.
• Collaborate with treatment teams to plan admission, treatment and aftercare.
• Document and evaluate client progress and needs.

Skills

Social work practices

Ethics

Assessment & prognosis

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

2 years of experience

Job description

Job Location:

This position will be located at 1010 West Columbia Street Farmington, MO

Why you’ll love this position:

Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center has an opening for a Senior Clinical Caseworker. This position would be a social work position for our Adult Psychiatric Services portion of the facility. Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center is operated by the Missouri Department of Mental Health, and provides adult inpatient mental health services and sex offender rehabilitation services. Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center is a 348 bed Joint Commission accredited long term care psychiatric hospital that complies with the requirements of The Joint Commission (TJC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center utilizes an interdisciplinary team approach within which the social workers plays a key roles. All treatment approaches are evidence based. Along with being part of a dynamic treatment team, utilizing evidence-based treatment approaches, full time employees also enjoy a generous benefit package as part of employment.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• his is an advanced professional position accountable for providing clinical casework services to persons with mental illness and/or development or physical disabilities. Compiles comprehensive case histories concerning the clients’ social, environmental, and economic backgrounds for use by medical and other professional treatment staff. Also participates in admission, social diagnosis, prognosis, progress review, research, community placement, and aftercare planning with an interdisciplinary team and other service agencies.
• In addition to those identified in the previous level: Knowledge of social work practices, techniques, and ethics. Knowledge of medical and psychiatric diagnoses and implications for treatment prognosis. Ability to evaluate the care and services provided to a client in terms of needs, functioning level, progress, and adherence to facility, state, or federal guidelines and regulations.
• Typical qualifications Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of experience. (Substitutions may be allowed.)
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• Preferred qualifications
• Preferred qualifications
• For supervisory positions it’s recommended to include: Training, certification, and/or education in continuous process improvement programs such as Lean Six Sigma as well as completion of Missouri Way, Leadership Academy, and similar programs is preferred.

Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant.

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for the State of Missouri, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator. This tool provides a comprehensive view of benefits and more that are offered to prospective employees. The Total Compensation Calculator and other applicant resources can be found here.

For more information on this position, please contact Human Resources at 573-218-6800.

Note: disciplinary action(s) within the past six (6) months may disqualify applicants for promotional changes in classification. Any request for an exception to this criteria must be submitted to Human Resources for consultation with facility administration for final approval.