Job Overview
Job Summary
Under minimal supervision, plans, organizes and implements psychiatric social work treatment for clients and families. This work includes assessing the psychological needs of patients and families and carrying out interventions such as individual, group, and family therapy consistent with the spirit of evidence-based practices such as motivational interviewing and acceptance and commitment therapy. The work also includes identifying and connecting patients to resources to assist with their ongoing behavioral healthcare.
Responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 1. Knowledge of crisis intervention and brief and long term therapy processes. 2. Knowledge of patient populations’ cultural, religious, ethnic, and social systems in interactions, care planning and education. 3. Knowledge of medical terms, abbreviations, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis and demonstrates this knowledge verbally and in writing. 4. Skill in navigating and documenting within a medical record system. 5. Skill in providing care appropriate to the age of the patients served within the unit. 6. Skill in establishing a treatment alliance and engaging the client system in goal setting and prioritizing. 7. Ability to manage the professional relationship including termination. 8. Ability to respond to trauma or psychiatric emergency.
Education
• Master’s Degree (Required) Education and Experience 1. Master’s Degree in Social Work from a CSWE accredited college or university required. 2. Two years of full time post Master’s Degree social work practice under the supervision of a licensed or equivalently qualified social worker or other DORA approved professional practitioner required. 3. Three years of directly related experience required.
Experience
Credentials
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Required)
Location
Main Campus – Pavilion A
Shift
Work Type
Full time
Pay Range
Minimum: 63,500.00
Midpoint: 79,500.00
Maximum: 95.400.00
All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.
Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver’s 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 18 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison and Safety, a Public Health department, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.
As Colorado’s primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.
Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.
We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).
Denver Health is committed to provide equal treatment and equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. As an EOE, Denver Health does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
