Forensic Social Worker (DBH0450924-100226)

State-of-Missour; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 63,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

The Missouri Department of Mental Health is seeking a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), or LCSW/LMSW-seeking Senior Clinical Case Worker to join the Forensic Mobile Team. This role requires travel to jails, courts, and community settings from a home office in Kansas City, MO.

Base salary varies by role: Senior Clinical Case Worker up to 63,120.05; LCSW up to 78,264; LMSW up to 78,264. Salary may increase with retention pay or other differentials.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) from a CSWE-accredited program.
• Must be pursuing LCSW or LMSW.
• Current Missouri LCSW license.
• Current Missouri LMSW license.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel throughout the assigned service area.
• Ability and willingness to work in jails, courtrooms, private residences, and community settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical assessment, treatment, crisis intervention, and care coordination to individuals with serious mental illness and complex forensic needs.
• Travel to county jails to provide in-person assessments, treatment, competency-related services, and coordination with jail staff.
• Collaborate with judges, attorneys, jail personnel, law enforcement, hospitals, community providers, and other Forensic Mobile Team members.
• Attend court hearings and provide professional testimony regarding treatment, participation, observations, and services when required.
• Conduct home and community visits for individuals released on bond.
• Provide clinical interventions and support services related to competency restoration and treatment engagement.
• Monitor psychiatric symptoms, functioning, treatment participation, risk factors, and community stability.
• Develop individualized treatment plans coordinating psychiatric care, medications, behavioral health treatment, housing, transportation, and benefits.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Crisis intervention

Communication

Documentation

Education

MSW (CSWE-accredited)

LCSW license (Missouri)

LMSW license (Missouri)

Job description

The Missouri Department of Mental Health is seeking a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), or LCSW/LMSW-seeking Senior Clinical Case Worker to serve as a member of the Forensic Mobile Team. A qualified Senior Clinical Case Worker as described in the requirements section below must be pursuing LCSW or LMSW license to be eligible for this role.

This position provides specialized clinical services to individuals involved in Missouri’s forensic mental health system, including individuals adjudicated Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST) who may be receiving services in county jails or in the community while on bond. This is a unique social work position combining forensic mental health, community-based treatment, jail-based services, court involvement, and multidisciplinary collaboration. The Forensic Mobile Team Social Worker works closely with courts, attorneys, county jails, psychiatric providers, hospitals, community behavioral health agencies, and other criminal justice partners.

This position will have a home office located at 1000 East 24th Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Traveling to jails, courts, community settings, and patient homes is required.

The base salary offered for this position is commensurate with education and experience. If the selected candidate is eligible for a pay differential, such as retention pay, the total salary may exceed what is listed in this posting.

The base salary and titled offered is dependent upon the qualifications of the candidate:

• Senior Clinical Case Worker – base salary up to $63,120.05 annually.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker – base salary up to $78,264.00 annually.
• Licensed Clinical Master Social Worker - base salary up to $78,264.00 annually.

• Provide clinical assessment, treatment, crisis intervention, and care coordination to individuals with serious mental illness and complex forensic needs.
• Travel to county jails to provide in-person assessments, treatment, competency-related services, and coordination with jail staff.
• Collaborate with judges, attorneys, jail personnel, law enforcement, hospitals, community providers, and other members of the Forensic Mobile Team.
• Attend court hearings and provide professional testimony regarding treatment, participation, clinical observations, and services when required.
• Conduct home and community visits for individuals receiving services while released on bond.
• Provide clinical interventions and support services related to competency restoration and treatment engagement.
• Monitor psychiatric symptoms, functioning, treatment participation, risk factors, and community stability.
• Develop individualized treatment and service plans while coordinating psychiatric care, medications, behavioral health treatment, housing, transportation, and benefits.

Minimum Qualifications:

• For Senior Clinical Case Worker (Base salary up to $63,120.05 annually):
  • Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) from a CSWE-accredited program.
  • Must be pursuing LCSW or LMSW.
• For Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Base salary up to $78,264.00 annually):
  • Current Missouri Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) license.
• For Licensed Master Social Worker (Base salary up to $78,264.00 annually):
  • Current Missouri Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) license.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel throughout the assigned service area.
• Ability and willingness to work in jails, courtrooms, private residences, and community settings.
• Strong clinical assessment, crisis-intervention, communication, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in forensic mental health, serious mental illness, correctional behavioral health, competency restoration, community mental health, crisis services, or the criminal justice system is strongly 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.

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