• Assess individual’s needs, determine urgency, and link individuals in a timely manner to an array of services from psychiatric resources.
• Provides assessment, treatment, short term therapy, and care coordination for outpatient clients.
• Communicates with patients both face to face and by telephone from a culturally diverse, high-risk population.
• Works with a variety of professionals and paraprofessionals related to mental health and departmental staff, hospital and clinic staff, as well as social services staff, and other community groups.
• Provides consultation, education, and information to families regarding individual situations, treatments, and community resources.
• Provides short-term individual therapy and assist with linkage to community resources as necessary.
• Evaluates and provides direct client assessment which may include triage, screening, assessments, diagnosis, linkage to services/resources, documentation, and psychotherapy.
• Provides assessments including risk and diagnostic assessments as well as crisis intervention tools.
• Recognizes the legal consequences, loss of patients’ confidence, and failure to properly refer patients.
• Responsible for identified duties in the Health Department Emergency Response Plan and in the case of an event, the employee is required to work at a specified location.
• Performs related duties as required.

• Considerable knowledge of clinical social work principles, techniques, and practices and their application to individual casework group work and community problems.
• Knowledge of the psychosocial, socioeconomic and behavioral problems and their treatment.
• Skill in charting detail, assessment and treatment.   Must be able to accurately assess, document, and communicate educational information.
• Ability to monitor and remain current with the DSM manual, laws, and regulations regarding mental health.
• Knowledge of governmental and private organizations and community resources.
• Knowledge of assessment, diagnostic risk assessments, brief therapeutic and crisis interventions.
• Knowledge of laws, regulations and policies which govern the program.
• Skill in establishing rapport with a client and applying techniques of assessing psychosocial, behavioral and psychological aspects of a client’s problem.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with members of a case load and their families, and with civic, medical, social, and religious organizations.
• Ability to train or instruct students or interns.
• Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to plan and execute work.
• Ability to work independently and without constant supervision in all areas of job duties.
• Considerable knowledge of modern office practices and techniques including use of computers for word processing, spreadsheet functions, data retention and retrieval, and other office practices.
• Knowledge and ability to use correct grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and perform basic math skills.

• Master’s degree from an accredited school of psychology, counseling, or social work.
• Licensed to practice as a Psychological Associate or Counselor; or
• Licensed or provisionally licensed to practice as a Clinical Social Worker by the appropriate licensing board.
• Additional training/experience that is required according to the standards of the professional board regulating the employee’s professional license.
• Possess a valid NC driver’s license.

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