Social Worker II

Sea Mar Community Health Centers; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 37,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Long Term Disability

EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

Paid-time-off starting at 24 days per

10 paid Holidays

401(k)/Retirement options

Job summary

Sea Mar Community Health Centers in Vancouver, WA is seeking a Social Worker II to conduct psychosocial assessments, develop care plans, and provide brief treatment within an integrated MSS team. You will coordinate infant case management and engage with an interdisciplinary group to support pregnant and parenting clients.

Applicants should hold a Master’s degree and WA licensure and have experience serving underserved communities; bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree and WA licensure in applicable mental health field.
• Experience working with underserved populations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial psychosocial screening and comprehensive assessment.
• Develop intervention plans and provide brief treatment.
• Coordinate Infant Case Management and MSS services.
• Document in EHR; ensure confidentiality and reporting.
• Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings to plan care.

Skills

Interdisciplinary team collaboration

PHQ-9

GAD-7

AUDIT/DAST

EHR (Electronic Health Records)

Bilingual English/Spanish preferred

Education

Master’s degree in relevant field

WA licensure (LMHC/LICSW/LCSW/LPMFT/LPsych)

Tools

Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Microsoft Office

Job description

Social Worker IIWe use cookies to make the safest and most effective website possible.# Sea Mar Careers## Social Worker IIApply: Vancouver: Full time: Posted Today: JR102721Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organizationPosition SummaryThe role of the Social Worker II is to conduct an initial screening and provide a comprehensiveintegrated clinical psychosocial assessment; develop intervention plans based on that assessment;provide brief treatment toward the care plan; provide transition services for long termcounseling/treatment and Infant Case Management; and consult with the interdisciplinary MaternitySupport Services team on the needs of clients served. The productivity expectation for this position is20 or more client encounters per week for full-time work.Duties and ResponsibilitiesAs a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based onthe belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhancesself-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered,culturally-aware services.Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to anexcellent client experience by:• Understanding and empathizing with client needs• Surpassing client expectations• Demonstrating a high level of integrity and work ethics• Exhibiting compassion and commitment• Advocating for social justice• Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team• Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology• Utilizing AIDET skills at all timesAs a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to theirutmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.The Social Worker II:• Exemplifies excellent customer relations with clients, visitors, and other employees; showscourtesy, friendliness, and respect.• Introduces clients to integrated MSS services (either in home or at clinic) and performssystematic social services screening to determine current status and needs in a variety ofareas.• Based on identified client needs, makes referrals to appropriate agencies/services or providesinformation and assists clients for self-referral.• Provides advocacy as needed to encourage participation in implementing the care plan or toresolve problems which are interfering with active participation in the care plan (such astransportation or language barrier).• Charts notes of the services provided as required by the state and agency in Sea Mar’sElectronic Health Records.• Assists client in accomplishing tasks necessary to access services such as filling out appropriateforms, obtaining necessary documentation or authorization.• Maintains regular face-to-face contact with client in order to monitor implementation of thecare plan.• Maintains professional standards and follows the treatment policies and procedures of theagency, as well as applicable federal, state and local regulations.• Completes daily documentation as directed by the MSS Manager and First Step programguidelines.• Reports any unusual incidents to their manager or the Preventive Health Services Director. TheSocial Worker II is a state mandated reporter, as such; he/she will report to the state anysuspected case of child/elder abuse or neglect as mandated by WAC.• Complete a thorough, culturally sensitive, psychosocial assessment which includes but is notlimited to: Personal history (cultural background, health status, coping strategies, mental healthstatus, substance use, abuse and violence); current family functioning; review of support systems(formal and informal); and basic physical needs. This assessment is shared with the client andteam members to assure that all relevant psychosocial issues are addressed in the care planning.• Provide brief, culturally relevant, counseling to client/families which would include: crisisintervention; mental health concerns; pregnancy and birth options; grief; stress; parenting;coping skills; problem-solving; abuse/neglect; family violence. Educate the client to makeinformed decision regarding personal, child and family health/mental health care and treatment.Brief counseling is defined as counseling to assist the client in developing some skills to copewith issues presented and developing a plan to address ongoing longer term treatment withappropriate mental health providers.• Communicate clearly, oral and written, with clients, community professionals andinterdisciplinary team members. This includes maintaining records that are clear and conciseregarding psychosocial and/or needs assessment, service plans, treatment and follow-up care.The documentation must reflect legal mandates for reporting abuse/neglect.• Participate fully in all interdisciplinary team meetings to provide input on client’s assessedpsychosocial needs and on interdisciplinary team plans for client. The goal is to build familystrengths and resiliency.• Develop working relationships within the service system network in particular services that havesignificant impact on pregnant and parenting clients such as: Mental Health and ChemicalDependency systems; network within service providing community serving this population todevelop strategies to improve services delivery.• Demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the clientserved.• Demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.• Able to identify and categorize each patient’s age-specific grouping of needs, such as those forinfant, adolescent, or geriatric patients.• Performance of additional duties as assigned.Personnel and Performance Metrics:The Social Worker II will:• Adhere to his/her established schedule and must be prepared to provide services and/or engagein other work related duties by her/his established start time, each day• Provide services using AIDET skills at all times, for both, external and internal customers.QualificationsThe Social Worker II must be able to perform each essential duty as outlined above satisfactorily. Therequirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonableaccommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.• The Social Worker II demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and developmentthroughout the life span, and is able to identify and categorize each patient’s age specificgrouping of needs, such as those for infants, adolescents, or geriatric patients. Additionally, theSocial Worker II must demonstrate knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriateto the age of the patient served.• The person in this position must be of good character and able to maintain the understanding,physical health, emotional stability and personality suited to meet the physical, mental,emotional, and social needs of the population served.• The person in this position shall have no history or evidence of alcohol or other drug misuse fora period of three (3) years prior to the date of employment at the facility, and no misuse ofalcohol or other drugs while employed at this facility.• This individual cannot be a person who has been convicted of a felony within the last sevenyears or ever been convicted of child abuse and / or any crime involving physical harm toanother person nor be a perpetrator of substantiated child abuseKnowledge, Skills and AbilitiesThe Social Worker II has:• Knowledge of the Patient Centered Health Home Model of care.• The ability to work with an inter-disciplinary care team. Members of the team may includemedical providers, nursing staff, care coordinators, behavioral health, preventive health andother support staff.• Knowledge of evidence-based screening tools (PHQ 9, GAD 7, AUDIT, DAST, etc.) and theability to use these tools as part of a framework to make appropriate level of care interventionsand referrals for patients as needed.• The ability to maintain effective relationships and professional rapport with patients andmembers of the care team.• The skills and ability to actively engage patients in therapeutic alliances.• Strong listening, verbal, and written communication skills.• Knowledge of medical terminology.• Experience working with safety-net providers within the community and broad knowledge ofcommunity resources to facilitate whole person care.• The skill and ability to facilitate care transitions within the organization, as well as externally, fora variety of services as may be needed by the patients.• Good working knowledge and skills in using electronic health record platforms, externalregistries, as well as the Microsoft suite of programs in order to document patientservices,develop and run reports, etc.LANGUAGE SKILLS• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules,operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Have the ability to writeroutine reports and correspondence. Have the ability to speak effectively before groups ofcustomers or employees of organization.COMPUTER SKILLS• Must have typing proficiency of at least 35 wpm. Basic knowledge of computers and programssuch as Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and electronic health care records.Possess the ability to learn new programs as they may pertain to use of electronic healthrecords.MATHEMATICAL SKILLS• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers,common fractions, and decimals. Have the ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and todraw and interpret bar graphs.REASONING ABILITY• Have the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables insituations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety ofinstructionsfurnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.Education, Certificates, Licenses, Registrations, and Medical ScreeningEDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE• Master’s degree from an accredited university and licensure in the state of Washington as aLicensed Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, LicensedSocial Worker, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, or Licensed Psychologist. Sea Mardoes not provide clinical supervision for licensure purposes.• Experience working with underserved populations such as, but not limited to, those who havelimited English speaking skills, are homeless, and migrant and seasonal workers. If the patientrequires services beyond brief intervention, the Social Worker II is responsible for coordinatingthe timely referral to behavioral health services.• Experience working with patients who have substance use disorders, chronic mental illness, andthose who require crisis intervention.CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS• Must have and maintain a current Employee Health Screening. This person must pass aWashington State Patrol background check.• This position must obtain Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR within 90 days of hire date and isrequired to maintain current BLS CPR throughout employment.Additional Requirements• Pre-hire and annual employee health screening required• Annual influenza vaccine required. Only exception is for employees with a medical or religiousexemption approved by Administration. Employees with an approved medical or religiousexemption must wear a mask at all time during the flu season.Work EnvironmentThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employeeencounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may bemade to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Physical RequirementsThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee tosuccessfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made toenable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger,handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required tostand, walk, and sit. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch,or crawl. The employee may be required to lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally liftand/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distancevision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.Hourly - Hourly Plan, 32.34 USD Hourly**What We Offer:**Sea Mar offers talented and motivated people the opportunity to work in a dynamic and growing community health organization. Working at Sea Mar Community Health Centers is more than just a job, it’s a fulfilling career with opportunity for advancement. The fringe benefits surpass most companies. For example, Full-time employees working 30 hours or more, receive an excellent benefit package of:* Medical* Dental* Vision* Prescription coverage* Life Insurance* Long Term Disability* EAP (Employee Assistance Program)* Paid-time-off starting at 24 days per year + 10 paid Holidays.* We also offer 401(k)/Retirement options and an exciting opportunity to work in a culturally diverse environment.Sea Mar is an equal opportunity employer.Please visit our website to learn more about us at www.seamar.org. You may also apply thru our Career page at this link.