Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Licensed Clinical Social Worker Healthcare Management Advisors - 1.0 Central Falls, RI Job Details Full-time $45 - $50 an hour 9 hours ago Benefits Health insurance Dental insurance 401(k) matching Retirement plan Qualifications Crisis intervention Microsoft Word Master's degree in social work CPR Certification Master of Social Work Microsoft Excel Managed care Achieving HIPAA compliance Maintaining patient confidentiality BLS Certification Regulatory compliance

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Patient safety Working with children Case management Quality improvement Trauma-informed therapy Organizational skills Crisis management Full Job Description SMART® Integrated Behavioral Health Provider, LCSW/LICSW SMART®

Purpose:

Our purpose is to break the cycle of poverty and positively impact the trajectory of lives by ensuring the wellness of children to support their educational attainment and competencies. We achieve this by proactively working with ALL students in a given school building to identify the physical, social, emotional, and behavioral barriers to classroom success. We then swiftly deliver interventions to address those barriers, thus creating optimal conditions for learning. SMART®

Clinics:

Located and fully integrated within schools to proactively provide medical and behavioral health care services , our scope of care includes prevention and screenings; urgent care for minor illness and injuries; a CLIA-waived lab for testing including strep, flu, covid, urinary tract infections and hematocrit; chronic disease management; vaccinations; routine physicals; and individual, family, and group behavioral health services. SMART® Clinics are open in full alignment with school days and hours. Our SMART®

Clinical Team and Staff:

We seek highly qualified and skilled individuals with a drive and passion for providing the best possible care for our students, their families, teachers, and staff. A qualified candidate will exemplify the qualities of a great team member and individual performer, and will prioritize this position with resilience, compassion, emotional maturity, strong work ethic, grit, and integrity. This work, while demanding, is highly rewarding and affirming. You will know, without a doubt, that you are part of an initiative that is improving student health, academic outcomes, and ultimately the trajectory of a life.

Position Summary:

The SMART® Integrated Behavioral Health Provider provides care for the patient population by initiating and administering Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary tiered interventions, commencing with an integrative health assessment, which assists with risk and problem identification, then identifying and implementing appropriate interventions and follow-up strategies. Works in collaboration with the SMART® Team and student to define expected patient outcomes, describe appropriate resource utilization, and develop individual goal plans. Provides support/care coordination to the practice program to optimize patient outcomes while maximizing existing resources/partnerships within the school and minimizing duplication of services. Emphasis on supporting academic success in each plan of care and goal. Utilizes aggregate population data to ascertain the major population risk factors and/or social determinants and works collaboratively with the school partner and SMART® Team to identify and prioritize risks, as well as create and execute actionable solutions to mitigate the negative impact of those social determinants. Maximizes SMART®'s capacity to support a trauma-informed framework and healing, in keeping with the SMART® Whole Child, Whole School approach. The person in this position must also exemplify SMART®'s Core Values of working with a sense of urgency, entrepreneurial spirit, customer-service focus, and servant leadership, as well as always exercising the utmost discretion and diplomacy when interacting with all stakeholders, including students/patients, parents, faculty, and staff. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Benefits:

FTE:

.70 - .80, typically follows school calendar up to 180 days; additional hours may be available

Salary Range:

TBD per hour, commensurate with experience

• PTO (to be taken during non-school days)

Health Insurance and SIMPLE Plan IRA Qualifications/Requirements:

• Master's degree in Social Work from a program approved by the Council on Social Work Education.
• LICSW or LCSW
• Familiarity/Proficiency with motivational interviewing techniques, Penn Resiliency, Trauma Informed Care framework, and solutions-based care plan model types.
• Strong knowledge and experience with common pediatric and adolescent health problems.
• Experience working with pediatric patients and adolescents in a school or healthcare setting preferred.
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with the health care team, providers, and management team staff.
• Experience in providing managed care patient services.
• Commitment to work in community health with the challenges of a high risk, uninsured, and/or diverse patient population is helpful.
• Previous experience with EHR is helpful.
• Knowledge of HIPAA regulations and experience in information privacy/security laws, access, and release of information.
• Child Abuse Mandated Reporter Training is required.
• Experience working with computer systems; proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Ability to function independently, as well as work collaboratively with an integrative team.
• Demonstrates the ability to function independently as well as work collaboratively with an integrated team.
• CPR certification required.
• Ability to successfully complete and pass background/Lifelinks.
• Access to reliable transportation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct integrated health assessments on all consented students to assess social, emotional, and other health related risks.
• Work closely with other members of the SMART® Team (i.e. FNP, RN/MA/CNA, Health and Wellness Coordinator, and Utilization Manager) to ensure both behavioral health and medical needs are addressed.
• Communicate efficiently and professionally with parents, teachers, and school administration, when appropriate.
• Plan, implement, and coordinate individual and group behavioral health interventions and/or therapy sessions to address individual needs of the student (i.e. anxiety, depression, anger, low self-esteem, bullying, grief, etc.).
• Conduct crisis management, when needed.
• Ensure referrals to higher levels of care and/or outside agencies are completed to facilitate the continuum of care.
• Assist in the development, revision, and implementation of patient programs to meet the specific needs of the school population as identified through health assessment and school leadership.
• Ensure notes/documentation are entered into eTHOS™, SMART®'s Knowledge Management System , and EHR in a timely manner.
• Maintain knowledge and comply with RHC regulatory and third-party payors' procedures, notification requirements, and criteria, as well as the documentation required in medical records, etc.
• Create behavioral health interns' daily schedule for all clinics, if applicable.
• Support the IBH team with screening of all incoming and outgoing DHR calls.
• Coordinate the facilitation of Anticipatory Teachings and Preventive Groups.
• Attend IEP meetings, truancy meetings, and any other meetings with the school, as needed.
• Be a liaison between

GGC MSO, SMART

® Clinics, DHR, and the Board of Education.

• Maintain security, confidentiality, and data integrity at both the individual and aggregate levels.
• Provide oversight to daily non-clinical SMART® operations, including scheduling, facilities issues, stakeholder communication, and troubleshooting.
• Report situations (e.g., escalated confrontations) to appropriate parties.
• Participate in SMART®/GGC MSO Team meetings and SMART® National Team meetings, as requested.
• Perform any other duties required by your clinic's leadership and SMART®/GGC MSO. Additional Key Daily Responsibilities
• Track referrals and follow-ups on patients by utilizing the eTHOS™ follow-up tool.
• Participate in daily huddle with the clinical team.
• Maintain close collaboration with school administration, faculty, behavioral health team, school social worker, school resource officers, and SMART® staff and providers.
• Complete all charting by the end of the day, including: o EHR charting o eTHOS™ charting Core Competencies and Professional Characteristics
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including excellent written and verbal skills.
• Capacity to maintain flexibility, problem solving, and an innovative mindset amidst constantly changing circumstances within the school building, patient population, and daily clinic schedule.
• Performance improvement and patient safety knowledge is required.
• Critical thinking and sound judgment to promptly report all potential patient safety risks to provider.
• Good organizational skills in the preparation of daily work schedules and the assignment of duties and responsibilities.
• Ability to effectively work with physicians, clients, and other personnel in a cooperative, collaborative manner that improves clinical outcomes.
• Ability to analyze data and possess an aptitude for mathematics and statistics.
• Show understanding of relationships between medical and psychological systems within the cultural context of the individual patient.
• Ability to address patients' motivational factors and readiness to change.
• Focus on functional outcomes.
• Change-focused and able to measure outcomes at every visit.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently and effectively.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, patient service-oriented environment.
• Ability to promote quality improvement through development and maintenance of standards.
• Ability to maintain professional conduct in all work-related and/or emergent situations.
• Ability to work a flexible staffing schedule.
• Possess a holistic, Whole Child approach at understanding, evaluating, and treating all health needs that may be barriers to academic achievement.
• Promote preventative health strategies. Continued Education and Self-Development
• Participate in quality assurance review, including systematic review of records and treatment plans on a periodic basis, per medical provider organization requirements.
• Apply standardized care guidelines in clinical practice.
• Identify and address opportunities to improve clinical practice and delivery of care.
• Assist with team analysis of eTHOS™ data and other available data regarding patient populations to identify issues and plan for improvement of care, in conjunction with SMART® Team members.
• Maintain current certification in compliance with current state law and organizational requirements.
• Attend continuing education seminars/classes pertinent to SMART® Clinics, noting that attendance should correspond with a day that school is not in session to avoid an interruption in continuous patient care.

Other Standards and Competencies:

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret medical documentation, professional journals, and government regulations.
• Ability to write reports and correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from providers, hospital and health center staff, patients, and their families.

REASONING ABILITY

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of medical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and accurately respond to several variables.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Confidentiality:

The School District will execute a Business Associates Agreement (BAA) and a separate Non- Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that shall cover all patient health information (PHI), HIPAA, and FERPA.

Pay:

$45.00 - $50.00 per hour

Benefits:

401(k) matching Dental insurance Health insurance Retirement plan

Work Location:

In person