Social Worker

Description

Schedule : Monday-Friday Day shift

This position primarily serves participants in PACE's East Region, including the Gresham and Glendoveer service areas. Services are provided across clinic, home, residential, and community settings.

The Mental Health Social Worker (LCSW) is a member of the interdisciplinary team (IDT) and provides behavioral health assessment, treatment, consultation, and care coordination for older adults enrolled in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). This position supports participants experiencing mental health concerns, emotional distress, adjustment challenges, serious mental illness, substance use concerns, cognitive impairment, and complex psychosocial needs.

Working collaboratively with participants, caregivers, community partners, and the IDT, the Mental Health Social Worker helps promote emotional well-being, behavioral health stability, independence, and quality of life while supporting participants to remain safely in the community whenever possible.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Social Work (MSW) from an accredited school of social work.
• Current Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) license.
• Minimum of two years of post-licensure clinical experience in mental health practice.
• Experience working with older adults or individuals with complex medical, behavioral health, or psychosocial needs.
• Strong assessment, counseling, crisis intervention, and care coordination skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in PACE, geriatrics, integrated care, primary care, or community-based healthcare settings.
• Experience working with dementia, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring conditions.
• Training in evidence-based behavioral health interventions.

Why Join Our Team?

As part of the PACE interdisciplinary team, the Mental Health Social Worker plays a vital role in supporting the emotional and behavioral health needs of older adults. This position offers the opportunity to provide meaningful, relationship-based care while working collaboratively to help participants maintain independence, dignity, and quality of life in their communities.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we'll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.

Applicants in the Unincorporated County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Unincorporated Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

About the Team

Providence Home and Community Care (HCC) is a service line within Providence with over 8,000 caregivers and 2,000 volunteers serving nearly 200,000 people a year, in their homes, in clinics and in a variety of congregate living ministries across our seven-state footprint.

HCC provides a full range of services and support for people of all ages, especially those facing chronic or life-limiting illnesses. Our core competencies include restorative care, longitudinal care and care through the end of life. Our service lines include assisted living/skilled nursing/rehabilitation, home health, home infusion/pharmacy services, home medical equipment, hospice and palliative care, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), personal home services/private duty care and supportive housing.

Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.

Requsition ID: 446853

Company: Providence Jobs

Job Category: Social Services

Job Function: Clinical Care

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Day

Career Track: Clinical Professional

Department: 5014 CLINICAL PROGRAM SERVICES OR REGION

Address: OR Portland 4400 NE Halsey St

Work Location: Providence Health Plaza (HR) Bldg 1-Portland

Workplace Type: On-site

Pay Range: $41.63 - $64.63

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.