Job Description

The Psychiatric Social Worker provides mental health services and psychosocial support to individuals and families dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues.  They assess clients needs develop treatment plans and offer therapeutic interventions to help clients manage crisis and improve their overall wellbeing.  Additionally they collaborate with other healthcare professionals to ensure comprehensive and coordinated care for their clients. 

International SOS Government Medical Services is recruiting Psychiatric Social Workers to support our medical staffing projects in New Hampshire. Psychiatric Social Workers may work in temporary shortterm or longterm jobs. Recruited personnel might be working alongside our clients teams or as part of our own multidisciplinary teams in secured federal facilities medically remote locations industrial projects or our own clinics in longterm care or acute care facilities. 

Please apply in order to be added to our database and to be considered for current and future Psychiatric Social Worker positions. Our recruiters will get in touch with you to check your availability readiness interest in the job and to provide you with more details on our vacancies. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Conduct psychosocial assessments to determine clients mental health needs. 
• Develop and implement individualized treatment plans in collaboration with healthcare teams. 
• Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients guardians family members and significant others to assess mobilize and access social financial and residential resources needed to promote recovery.  
• Providing individual family and group therapy on assigned cases and based on program needs with a willingness to apply a broad range of established therapeutic techniques. 
• Ensuring ongoing discussion upon issues with discharge with treatment team patients guardians families and significant others. 
• Advocate for clients to ensure they receive appropriate resources and support. 
• Coordinate with other health care providers to deliver comprehensive care. 
• Offer crisis intervention services during psychiatric emergencies. 
• Educate clients and families abut mental health conditions treatment options and available resources. 
• Maintain accurate and confidential client records. 
• Facilitate access to community resources and support services. 
• Monitor and evaluate clients progress and adjust treatment plane as necessary. 
• Supervising assigning and carrying out NHH Transportation Services for patients to appointments. 
• Initiating or overseeing the initiating of guardianship and/or involuntary commitment proceedings consistent with RSA 135 and 464A while ensuring congruency with the Social Work Code of Ethics. 
• Adhering to all applicable laws and policies including The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Health Care for All (HCFA) NHH policies and the Health Engagement Model (HEM). 
• Monitoring other legal issues such as the status of probation or parole involvement pending court hearings for criminal or civil actions facilitating appropriate involvement of the patient in these proceedings and giving direct testimony at court hearings as appropriate. 
• Providing support modeling and assistance to other hospital staff to reinforce courteous interactions and clinically appropriate interventions with patients. 
• Providing clinical analysis and recommendations at diagnostic and treatment review conferences as necessary. 
• Assisting in covering social service needs throughout NHH as they arise.

Qualifications :

Basic Requirements/Certifications:

• Minimum of one year of clinical experience in direct patient care as a licensed Clinical Social Worker. 
• Experience in detention or correctional healthcare residential healthcare a hospital outpatient clinic nursing home or other supervised medical nursing or patient care facility that provided direct care. 
• Experience with pediatric and adult patients. 

Education Required: 

• Current license in New Hampshire and have no record of prior or pending disciplinary action by the licensure body or agency. 
• Must possess at least a Masters degree in Social Work (MSW). 
• Program must be accredited by an entity recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. 
• Licensure must be maintained current and any required education trainings continued education to maintain licensure must be completed within the required timeline for completion by the licensing/ certifying authority. 
• Candidate must not have been convicted of pled guilty to pled nolo contender to or received probation before judgement for any crime other than a minor traffic violation the record of which has not been expunged. 
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification must be from one of the following approved organizations: 
• American Heart Association (AHA) BLS for health care providers 
• American Red Cross CPR/BLS for the professional rescuer 
• American Safety and Health Institute (ASHI) CPR and AED for healthcare providers and professional responders 
• Course components must include Adult Pediatric and Infant CPR Foreign Body Airway Obstruction and Automatic Defibrillator (AED) proficiency. 

Physical Requirements: 

• Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment. 
• Work involves sitting and standing for prolonged periods of time. 
• May require bending stooping and lifting up to 15 lbs.  

Other Special Qualifications:

• Must be able to read write and speak English to effectively communicate.
• US Citizen or Permanent Resident Card is required. 
• Reliably commute or planning to relocate to Concord New Hampshire. 
• May be required to travel short notice or to serve in various medical units within the region/location. 

Additional Information :

International SOS Government Medical Services is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against employees or job applicants on the basis of race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with the applicable federal state and local laws. 

Compensation Min: $35/hr $45/hr

Pay range is based on several factors and may vary in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicants background experience skills internal equity and alignment with geographical market data.

Benefits

Fulltime positions are eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package including medical dental vision and basic life insurance. Additional benefits include a 401k plan paid time off and an annual bonus.  International SOS complies with all federal state and local minimum wage laws.

International SOS Government Medical Services is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against employees or job applicants on the basis of race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime

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