LCSW

Job Title

LCSW- Danbury Hospital -Night Shift

Job Description

The role of the Social Worker is to deliver emotional and psychosocial support, along with education, to patients, families, and vulnerable populations. They provide therapy, counseling, care coordination, discharge planning, and advocacy. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, they practice at the highest level of their licensure, apply evidence-based approaches, and demonstrate flexibility across individual, group, and crisis interventions.

Responsibilities

1. Completes patient assessment, reassessment and treatment plans as clinically indicated.

2. Ability to assess for risk and safety factors and be able to recommend next steps in treatment.

3. Provides clinical interventions which may include but not limited to counseling, individual sessions, groups, bereavement and crisis intervention as well as assessment and intervention in cases involving all family/patient dynamics.

4. Completes the required documentation and paperwork as it relates to compliance and other regulatory guidelines.

5. Works collaboratively with colleagues, fostering positive relationships within and beyond the team. Approaches challenges constructively and professionally, and partners with psychiatric staff and other health professionals to ensure high-quality diagnosis and treatment.

6. Establishes objectives and develops patient-focused treatment plans to provide disposition and/or referral. Identifies potential barriers, limitations & lack of coping abilities, adjustments, functional status.

7. Maintains knowledge of available community resources, evaluates for abuse concerns across populations, and ensures timely referrals.

8. Maintains, utilizes and applies evidence-based therapeutic practices, and treatment modalities.

9. Contacts and communicates with insurers, including managed care companies to clinically justify treatment to negotiate approval for clinical services.

10. Attendance of required department, patient and family meetings.

11. Maintains and Models Organizations Health Values.

12. Demonstrates regular, reliable and predictable attendance.

13. Performs other duties as required.

Education Skills Experience

Unit Skills Required/Preferred Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) (Danbury) Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Associate (LPCA) Requires at least one year of demonstrated clinical background and hospital or crisis experience; relevant internship experience may be considered. Preferred: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) Required to submit licensure application materials for LCSW or LPC within two years of hire and successfully pass the examination within six months of eligibility. Skill Set: Experience facilitating or co facilitating therapeutic groups Experience working with adolescents and families Strong knowledge of identifying mental health symptoms, substance use patterns, and functional impairments, Highly proficient in conducting diagnostic evaluations, developing comprehensive treatment and safety plans, performing suicide and risk assessments, managing crisis situations, and coordinating effective discharge planning, Experience with modalities such as CBT, DBT, harm reduction approaches, relapse prevention strategies, and trauma informed care, Monitors the patients progression throughout the treatment process, Handles precertification and performs ongoing concurrent utilization reviews, Highly organized with proven time management skills, Demonstrates clear understanding of regulatory, legal, and accreditation standards.

Working Conditions

Manual: Some manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity

Occupational: Little or no potential for occupational risk

Physical Effort: Sedentary/light effort. May exert up to 10 lbs. force

Physical Environment: Generally pleasant working conditions

Company: Nuvance Health Med Practice CT

Org Unit: 504

Department: DH Inpatient Psych

Exempt: Yes

Salary Range: $36.53 - $67.90 Hourly