Lead Inpatient Behavioral Health Social Worker

Tallahassee Memorial; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) seeks a licensed mental health professional to join our inpatient psychiatry teams. You will provide evidence-based treatments, including DBT and CBT, to adolescents and adults with acute and chronic mental health and/or substance use disorders, and participate in an interdisciplinary treatment team.

In this role you’ll conduct assessments, create treatment plans, manage discharge processes, and collaborate with Nursing and other staff.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a mental health specialty from an accredited university.
• Master’s degree in social work preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides evidence-based clinical treatments to patients and families to stabilize mental health and/or substance use disorders.
• Delivers individual, group, and family therapies to adolescents and adults.
• Participates in interdisciplinary treatment teams with assessments, planning, and discharge.
• Collaborates with courts for Baker Act proceedings and liaises with court personnel.
• Performs suicide risk assessments and educates patients and families on coping strategies.
• Leads a clinical caseload on inpatient units and reports abuse/neglect as needed.
• Works with Nursing and other team members to address patient concerns in a timely manner.
• Delivers DBT, CBT, and other treatments per individualized plans.
• Serves as lead clinician on assigned unit; communicates with managers about clinical issues.
• Mentors student interns and guides their work quality and progression.
• Participates in community events as a Behavioral Health Center representative.
• Leads peers on evidence-based treatments and best-practices implementations.

Education

Master’s degree in a mental health specialty

Master’s degree in social work

Job description

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) seeks a licensed mental health professional to join our inpatient psychiatry teams. You will provide evidence-based treatments, including DBT and CBT, to adolescents and adults with acute and chronic mental health and/or substance use disorders, and participate in an interdisciplinary treatment team.

In this role you’ll conduct assessments, create treatment plans, manage discharge processes, and collaborate with Nursing and other staff.