Psychiatric Counselor

Kaiser Permanente; Laguna Hills (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente is hiring a Social Worker to provide supervised clinical social work services to adults, children, and families in inpatient and outpatient settings. You will collaborate with families and health care professionals to assess needs and guide treatment plans.

The role includes conducting initial interviews, providing therapy or counseling, and performing case management with a focus on crisis intervention and psycho-education within a structured supervisory framework.

Qualifications

• Master of Social Work degree from an accredited College or University setting.

Responsibilities

• Under supervision, conduct initial interviews to determine the nature and urgency of needs.
• Provide professional understanding of presentations and recommend therapy or action plans.
• Provide clinical case management services to adults, adolescents and children in hospital and outpatient settings.
• Render immediate guidance and therapeutic services for emotional crises or psychiatric emergencies.
• Maintain written records of therapy sessions and prepare reports for relevant agencies and contacts.
• Provide telephone counseling, resource information, and referral services.
• Participate in departmental/locational projects including CQI and OD duties.
• Provide psycho-education to members as part of prescribed treatments.

Skills

Therapy

Education

Master of Social Work

Job description

Job Summary

Provides supervised clinical social work services to adults, children and families with emotional and/or social problems utilizing established psychotherapeutic techniques in both inpatient and outpatient settings; consults and collaborates with members of the patients family and other health care professionals.

Essential Responsibilities

• Under supervision and referring to and utilizing licensed staff for appropriate decisions when necessary conducts initial interviews with member by eliciting and understanding the psychological and social meaning of complaints, symptoms, current and past history, to determine the nature and urgency of members need.
• Provides member with a professional understanding of his/her presentation, recommends a course of action such as beginning therapy or counseling, or a specific action plan that member can carry out without additional professional guidance or consultation.
• Provides clinical case management services to adults, adolescents and children; selects and uses appropriate treatment modality in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Renders appropriate immediate guidance and therapeutic services to help individuals and families cope with emotional crisis or psychiatric emergencies.
• Maintains a written record of therapy or counseling sessions; prepares reports and letters concerning patient; phones, writes and visits, with clients signed written permission, social agencies schools, relatives, friends, etc., to obtain pertinent information.
• Provides telephone counseling, resource information, and referral services.
• Participates in departmental/ locational project assignments and activities such as CQI activity and OD duty.
• Provides psycho-education for members in context of a prescribed treatment.

Basic Qualifications

Experience

• N/A

Education

• Master of Social Work degree, or Masters degree in a related Behavioral Health field from an accredited College or University setting.

License, Certification, Registration

• Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker (California) OR Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Associate Professional Clinical Counselor Registration (California)

Additional Requirements

• Once hired as an Associate, an employee will be offered and must work a schedule that would accumulate at least half of the required supervisory hours annually.
• Upon completion of supervised hours, the employee must obtain state licensure within two and one-half (2.5) years. If hired as a license-eligible employee (i.e. has completed all clinical hours), the employee has two and one-half (2.5) years from their date of hire to complete state licensure.

Preferred Qualifications

• N/A

Notes

• Employee will need to work weekends, two evening per week, and provide treatment to lifespan, possibly able to run groups (ex. IOP, DBT)
• full time in office