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Job TitleTo provide quality case management, psychoeducation and therapeutic support to patients on our youth/adolescent and adult inpatient psychiatric units. To serve actively and constructively as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team, working closely with the Nursing department and attending psychiatrists to support patients and their families to find success and stability amid their crises. To ensure the safety and well-being of each patient while meeting their biopsychosocial and aftercare needs.
Responsibilities:
  • Develop and coordinate individualized discharge plans for each patient; utilizing treatment teams, patient interactions and attending psychiatrist directives to determine and address the patient's aftercare needs
  • Administer biopsychosocial assessments to document patient's history and identify preliminary issues for treatment focus by interviewing the patients and their family members, when applicable
  • Work with high acuity patients with chronic mental health, substance use disorder and other comorbid diagnoses
  • Lead process and psychoeducational groups for patients using various evidence based therapeutic modalities
  • Conduct family therapy and discharge planning sessions to prepare patients for their safe return to the community after psychiatric stabilization
  • Attend regular treatment team meetings to provide the social work perspective to the interdisciplinary team and create ongoing, individualized treatment plans for each patient
  • Report to community/state agencies any patient issues as required by law to appropriate authorities (e.g. CPS, APS, Tarasoff reporting)
  • Represent the facility in Counselor of Mental Health hearings for patient's placed on 14-day intensive treatment 5250 legal holds
  • Familiarity with legal holds (5150, 5250, 5270), temporary and permanent conservatorships, wards of the state and dependents

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Level

Senior

Location

San Diego, CA

Occupation

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers

Industry

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers

Posted

3 days ago

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