Clinical Caseworker/Senior Clinical Caseworker/LCSW

Job Summary - Why you'll love this position

Job Location:


This position will be located at 1016 West Columbia Street Farmington, MO


Why you'll love this position: Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center has an opening for a Senior Clinical Caseworker/Clinical Caseworker/LCSW. This position would be a social work position for our Adult Psychiatric Services portion of the facility. Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center is operated by the Missouri Department of Mental Health, and provides adult inpatient mental health services and sex offender rehabilitation services. Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center is a 348 bed Joint Commission accredited long term care psychiatric hospital that complies with the requirements of The Joint Commission (TJC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center utilizes an interdisciplinary team approach within which the social workers plays a key roles. All treatment approaches are evidence based. Along with being part of a dynamic treatment team, utilizing evidence-based treatment approaches, full time employees also enjoy a generous benefit package as part of employment.

Responsibilities - What you'll do

Clinical Caseworker:


This is a professional position assigned to a program for persons with mental illness or developmental or physical disabilities accountable for assisting professional clinical staff by securing social and environmental information from clients and their families through interviews and home visits. Responsible for compiling case histories.

Knowledge, skills & abilities

Knowledge of individual, family, and group behavior; current social and economic challenges; and availability of community resources. Ability to understand medical and treatment records, progress notes, and other related information.


Senior Clinical Caseworker:


This is an advanced professional position accountable for providing clinical casework services to persons with mental illness and/or development or physical disabilities. Compiles comprehensive case histories concerning the clients' social, environmental, and economic backgrounds for use by medical and other professional treatment staff. Also participates in admission, social diagnosis, prognosis, progress review, research, community placement, and aftercare planning with an interdisciplinary team and other service agencies.

Knowledge, skills & abilities

In addition to those identified in the previous level: Knowledge of social work practices, techniques, and ethics. Knowledge of medical and psychiatric diagnoses and implications for treatment prognosis. Ability to evaluate the care and services provided to a client in terms of needs, functioning level, progress, and adherence to facility, state, or federal guidelines and regulations.


LCSW:


This is a licensed professional position accountable for providing clinical casework services to persons with mental illness and/or developmental or physical disabilities. Compiles comprehensive case histories concerning the clients' social, environmental, and economic backgrounds for use by medical and other professional treatment staff. Also participates in admission, social diagnosis, prognosis, progress review, research, community placement, and aftercare planning with an interdisciplinary team and other service agencies.

Knowledge, skills & abilities

In addition to those identified in the previous levels: Knowledge of the ethical considerations involved in the practice of licensed clinical social work. Knowledge of methods, principles, practices, and techniques of casework, group work, client-centered advocacy, community, organization, research, psychotherapy, and other clinical skills as they apply to intervention programs for persons with mental illness and/or developmental or physical disabilities. Ability to apply a variety of techniques and methods in the areas of assessment, planning, and individual and group therapy.

Qualifications - All you need for success

Minimum Qualifications:

Clinical Caseworker: Bachelor's degree. (Substitutions may be allowed.)


Senior Clinical Caseworker: Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience. (Substitutions may be allowed.)

LCSW: Licensure as a Clinical Social Worker.

Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant.

Job Details - More reasons to love this position

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for the State of Missouri, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator. This tool provides a comprehensive view of benefits and more that are offered to prospective employees. The Total Compensation Calculator and other applicant resources can be found here.

Contact Details - If you have questions or require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process please contact:

For more information on this position, please contact Human Resources at 573-2186-6800.