Clinical Social Worker II LCSW

Clinical Social Worker II LCSW

US-OR-PORTLAND

Job ID : 25-42711

Type : Regular Full-Time

Unity

Overview

Are you committed to holistic patient-centered care? Do you thrive providing adult and pediatric care in a variety of settings? If you want to grow as an empathetic advocate for the needs of vulnerable populations, you may be perfect for our Legacy team.

With compassion and commitment, Clinical Social Workers embody the Legacy mission of making life better for others. They do this by evaluating the psychosocial and mental health issues of patients to ensure transition planning, crisis management, and planning / coordination of both internal and external services. They assess intervention strategies to address behavioral and addiction issues, as well as end-of-life care and informed decision making about therapeutic options. Our Clinical Social Workers are advocates not just for our patients, but also for their surrogates, family members, caregivers and health care providers.

Unity Center for Behavioral Health is a one-of-a-kind center for people facing a mental health crisis. Unity Center features a Psychiatric Emergency Service, where patients receive care by specialists in behavioral health in a calming, non-hospital-like setting. Unity also has inpatient care for adults and teens. It is a collaboration between Adventist Health, Kaiser Permanente, Legacy Health and Oregon Health & Science University.

Responsibilities

Provides social work services in a variety of adult and pediatric settings across the health care continuum with a focus on holistic patient-centered care and attention to the needs of vulnerable populations.   Works both independently and collaboratively as part of an interdisciplinary team.

Key services include (but are not limited to) comprehensive evaluation of psychosocial and mental / behavioral health status, legal and safety considerations, substance use or addiction, chronic illness, or end of life issues with the use of brief counseling, transition planning, crisis management and planning and coordination with internal and community stakeholders. Social work intervention may be with individuals, family members or groups.

Throughout the care continuum, social workers will utilize a strengths-based approach with the aim to enhance the capacity of people to address their own needs.

Qualifications

Clinical Social Worker I CSWA Position Requirements :

• Education :
• Master of Social Work degree from an accredited School of Social Work required.
• Experience :
• Preferred : 1 year of relevant experience in care management, mental health and / or addictions services, medical social work, or social service organization.

Clinical Social Worker II LCSW Position Requirements :

Skills :

LEGACY’S VALUES IN ACTION :

Follows guidelines set forth in Legacy’s Values in Action.

Equal opportunity employer / vets / disabled.

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