Travel Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - $35 to $40 per hour in Bethesda, MD

Duration: 03 Years to Permanent  

Position Requirements:

• This position is committed to providing comprehensive state-of-the-art in person social work services to patients, their caregivers, families and to consult/collaborate with projects and protocols within the clinical/hospital setting.

Skills: 

• Must be able to obtain approval for social work clinical privileges through the Clinical Center Social Work credentialing process.
• Social Work experience in a medical setting, coordinating and collaborating with medical team to create safe discharge plans
• Strong diagnostic and clinical skills, professional knowledge of and specialized experience in the theories, ethical principles and practices of clinical social work including family systems therapy, crisis intervention, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioral interventions to diagnose and treat patients.
• Knowledge of mental health, medical, and social services available in the metropolitan community and throughout the United States and worldwide to provide educational services and consultation.
• Knowledge of the complexities of state and local bureaucracies to assist patients make optimal use of local resources.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with a team.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to successfully manage competing priorities. Resourcefulness in problem solving.
• Strong customer service focus.
• Proficiency with MS Suite.
• Ability to communicate effectively in orally and in writing to ensure documentation and transfer of information is done professionally and proficiently.
• Ability to apply systems theory and work tactfully and cooperatively at all levels to provide effective consultation to patients, customers, internal and external organizations/collaborators.

Software: 

• Medical Documentation Systems
• Field of Study
• Social Work

Statement of Work Details:

• Assists in coordinating and planning programs to meet the social and emotional needs of patients and patient's families.
• Develop a treatment plan based on assessment of psychological social and medical realities designed to enhance the validity of the research and to assist patients in making optimal hospital adjustments for requisite time of the study and arrange adequate discharge planning. 
• Collaborate with staff on treatment modalities, including crisis intervention, individual, family or group psychotherapy, emotional and environmental support and resource planning.
• Develop and implement discharge plans for patients with complex medical and psychiatric illness.Identify, make recommendations and provide referral to a wide variety of community resources in order to facilitate continuity of patient care and enhance ability to cope with illness and research participation.
• Screen research participants for psychosocial risk and refer appropriately to professional social work staff when behavioral health problems or complex issues are identified.
• Obtain selected information about research participants' households, living situations, employment, financial situation and other pertinent information to make initial and continuing eligibility determinations for financial assistance
• Identify needs for community resources and services.
• Develop recommendations and plans for the use of agency resources and community resources and services as appropriate to the needs identified.
• Communicate with insurance companies and health care facilities to identify possible resources for continuity of care.
• Provide family supportive and crisis management services as needed.

Screens patients for protocol and clinical trial participation:

• Utilize a full range of screening, assessment, diagnostic, treatment, consultative and educational services.
• Perform psychosocial assessments of patients and families in order to identify those factors which have a bearing on patient illness and recovery and his/her ability to cope with stress and the requirements of the research protocols.
• Assess and make recommendations to the physician about patients in pre-admission or admitted status as to their ability to tolerate research protocols and separation from the home environment.
• Perform patient and parent diagnosis.
• Conduct structured interviews for collection of research data in off-site locations such as private home visits or community centers.
• Conduct screening and baseline evaluations in collaboration with staff.
• Perform recruitment, screening, evaluation of patients and their families for research protocols.
• Evaluate patients' suitability for protocols.
• Conduct diagnostic interviews and collect family history information; meet with staff to determine inclusion or exclusion.

Assists in administering and scoring of clinical interviews and assessments:

• Conduct psychosocial risk screening and assessment of patients undergoing evaluation or participation in clinical research at the Clinical Center.
• Determine additional concrete needs for assistance and services in addition to those from which the research participant/family was referred, including housing, food, transportation, vocational support, financial assistance and healthcare resources.
• Perform research diagnostic assessments and ratings on patients.
• Perform clinical oversight of screening and assessment of patients.
• Administer and score a wide range of complex structured and semi-structured interviews.
• Perform standardized clinical ratings to assess treatment response.
• Conduct screening and baseline evaluations in collaboration with staff medical and other research staff.
• Perform individual and family-supportive educational counseling about patient psychiatric illness and effective ways to manage.

About Our Company:-

“22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer" and “US Citizens & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply."

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.