Job Overview
UTHealth Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences is hiring a team of Social Workers (LMSW) to join their team of professionals as they expand their child mental health services to meet the needs of trauma exposed children and adolescents in community. This expansion will target school aged youth who have experienced traumatic events, such as abuse, neglect, witnessing violence, separation and loss, chronic medical conditions, physical injuries.
Preferences: Experience implementing evidence-based practice in child mental health interventions and conducting mental health interventions in trauma exposed families. Bilingual applicants encouraged to apply.
Position Summary:
Provides professional work involving medical and psychiatric social case services to interpret social and environmental factors relating to treatment and/or research.
Position Key Accountabilities:
1. Interviews and screens patients to interpret social and environmental factors and medical requirements.
2. Plans course of treatment or refers cases to appropriate professionals, institutions or agencies to ensure that patients receive appropriate treatment or referral.
3. Obtains data from patients and/or relatives in the best interest of their problems to assist in the development of a number of significant teaching endeavors, programs, and social services.
4. Works towards meeting total patient care and handles all aspects of routine casework. This includes interviews with the patients and/or relatives to study the individual’s problems and needs, confers with the physician, faculty, and/or with any social agency which may have an interest in the patient’s problem, assists patients in developing an economically feasible method of planning for services, and to make psychological and social adjustments necessitated by different types of illnesses, and conducts individual and group therapies.
5. Prepares detailed reports and may video-tape sessions with patients for review with coworkers or a faculty member.
6. Solicits the assistance of religious, social, and welfare agencies in the treatment of patients. Interacts with social work staff and psychiatric residents.
7. Responds to emergency situations.
8. Performs other duties as assigned.
Certification/Skills:
Licensure as a Master Social Worker (LMSW) by the Texas Board of Social Work
Minimum Education:
Master’s Degree in Social Work.
Minimum Experience:
One year of social work experience required.
Medical social work experience is preferred.
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code § 51.215
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Medical Specialty:
- Psychiatry
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Education:
- Bachelor’s (Required)
Experience:
- Social work: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- Current license from the Texas Board of Social Work Examiners to practice as a Licensed Master Social Worker (Required)
Work Location: One location