Licensed Psychiatric Social Worker-Children Mobile Crisis Team

What You Will Do

Delivers outreach services to mentally ill individuals in the community, providing in-home mental health intervention to those experiencing or at risk of psychosocial difficulties

Collaborates with another team member to perform psychosocial evaluations and assess mental health service needs of clients and their families through observation and interviewing

Creates and execute short-term service plans for clients in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team

Responds promptly to dispatch calls, traveling from the office to the clients’ homes within two hours

Ensures seamless program operations as a vital liaison to community agencies and stepping in for the Program Coordinator as needed

Ensures uninterrupted comprehensive care from counseling and care management to long-term supplemental treatment referrals and follow-up

Prepares case histories and prepares and maintains case records, in accordance with the Program record-keeping mechanism

Encourages resistant clients to accept mental health services through interventions with clients and/or family members and friends concerned with the client's welfare

May provide clinical supervision for Mental Health Technician, graduate Social Worker students or junior staff Social Workers

Qualifications
Current registration to practice as a Licensed Master Social Worker in New York State Required as determined by operational/regional needs

Valid driver's license may be required

Minimum of one year experience as a Social Worker in a health care setting required as determined by operational needs, bilingual skills may be required Must be able to walk up and down steps to access patient residences

Master’s degree in social work after successfully completing a prescribed course of study at a graduate school of Social Work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and the Education Dept