Social Worker:

Social Worker

Under the direction and supervision of the Program Director, the Clinical Social Worker will assist homeless women with a primary diagnosis of serious and persistent mental illness, alcohol and substance abuse to restore or enhance their capacity for social functioning, while creating societal conditions favorable to their goals. The Clinical Social Worker must be able to independently assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of clients to formulate and implement a treatment plan, identifying the client's problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills and assistance needed. The must have knowledge of community resources, how to make appropriate referrals to community and other governmental agencies for services, and ability to coordinate services.

Responsibilities include facilitating weekly mental health workshops and onsite support groups for clients, knowledge of community resources, knowledge and experience in the use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities and treatment procedures, providing consultation services to other staff about the psychosocial needs of clients and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and compliance with treatment, knowledge and skill in the use of computer software applications for drafting documents, data management, and tracking, providing crisis intervention and stabilization as needed, maintaining; reviewing and signing off on all required documentation/reports and submitting all in a timely manner, identifying program needs and making recommendations, and performing related tasks as assigned.

Requirements include prior experience in substance abuse/mental health setting preferred, MSW and 2 amount of years' experience providing clinical services within a supervised setting. MSW candidate will be directly supervised by a Licensed Mental Health Professional, excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, knowledge of Microsoft Office is preferred, and computer literate.