Social Worker

Social Worker needed to support outpatient center in Petersburg, Alaska. '....this position provides evidence-based culturally relevant outpatient behavioral health treatment for those experiencing behavioral, emotional, and/or mental disorders. Clinical services include individual, group, family, and marital therapy as well as bio-psychosocial assessments, diagnostic evaluation, care coordination, and crisis intervention. The clinician is an active engaged member of the multidisciplinary treatment team to support individuals and families. Screening, intake, orientation, assessment, treatment planning, therapy, case management, crisis intervention, client education, referral, reports and records keeping, and consultation...

• Implement culturally relevant screening, assessment, diagnosing, treatment planning, and evidence-based individual, group, and family therapy to meet the needs of the clients served.
• Utilize Trauma Informed Care in all aspects of patient, employee, and community interactions.
• Integrate mental health and substance use disorder interventions as identified based on the results of individualized assessments and treatment planning.
• Develop individualized treatment plans and treatment reviews based upon the individual’s needs.
• Provide care coordination, advocacy, motivational interviewing, bio-psychosocial education and skill development.
• Maximize access to care and effective utilization of care by focusing on improving coping strategies and skills, promoting self-care, improving self-understanding, and management of symptoms.
• Communicate and collaborate with clinical and paraprofessional team members across the health system to achieve individualized treatment goals.
• Provide crisis intervention services within normal clinic hours.
• In the rural clinics of Haines, Klawock, Petersburg, and Wrangell provide shared rotating after hours crisis and emergency services.
• Maintain complete, timely, and accurate documentation of all services within the electronic health record including but not limited to assessments, progress notes, treatment plans, screening tools, and discharge plans as required by policy and procedure.
• Self-monitor and fulfill licensure requirements as required by clinician’s licensing board. 
• Adhere to patient confidentiality, sharing, and release of information per HIPAA policy.
• Coordinate care within the health system and local community social agencies to assure appropriate referrals are offered for optimal individualized care.
• Attend, engage, and professionally participate in staff meetings, training, and multidisciplinary team meetings. 
• Consistently meet productivity expectations to support ongoing patient access to timely care...'

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