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Lawrence General Hospital Social Worker Per Diem in Methuen, Massachusetts
Join us at Holy Family Hospital
As the Master Social Worker, you will provide social services to patients of the Holy Family Behavioral Health Units. The MSW provides social services and supportive counseling services to BHU patients. Additionally, coordinating treatment plans and treatment meetings, psycho-social assessments, and discharge planning. This position reports to the Director of Behavioral Health.
Responsibilities:
Provides crisis intervention for patients in need of immediate social work assessment according to Social Work Department guidelines within 24 hours of referral, assuming a reasonable caseload size, as periodically monitored and interpreted by the Supervisor.
Provides psycho-social assessment, treatment and/or disposition, referring to outside agencies as indicated according to Social Work Department guidelines within 24 hours of the time of referral, with no more than one formal verbal counseling around noncompliance per year.
Documenting assessment and plan in medical records within 24 hours of the time of referral, with no more than one formal verbal counseling around noncompliance per year.
Collaborates with medical, nursing, and other personnel as needed per patient with no more than one to two legitimate complaints (as determined by supervisor) per year.
Minimum Qualifications
Master’s Degree from an accredited school of social work, clinical or counseling psychology, or other human services related field.
Licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW or LICSW), Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) or license in progress preferred.
Minimum of one year of experience providing direct treatment to clients with mental health or substance-use disorders in an inpatient or outpatient setting preferred.
Location: Holy Family Hospital · Methuen Schedule: 40 hours, 8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday–Friday
Our two campuses in Methuen and Haverhill have a total of 320 beds, and we are a full-service, acute care hospital offering comprehensive inpatient medical/surgical units, outpatient care, and 24/7 emergency services. We have three behavioral health units; cardiac telemetry, and critical care service lines. Our Haverhill campus offers all private rooms, and our Methuen campus offers a new state-of-the-art catheterization suite and Joint Center of Excellence, named as a Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Distinction+ Center for Knee and Hip Replacement.