Social Worker 3/4 (First Episode Psychosis Supervisor)
Job description
JPHSA is responsible for the management and operation of behavioral health and developmental disability services in Jefferson Parish. JPHSA provides fully integrated primary and behavioral healthcare services through its JeffCare program.
The Behavioral Health Community Services (BHCS) division provides a continuum of community-based behavioral health and supportive programs to assist individuals in their recovery from mental illness and/or addictive disorders. The Social Worker (First Episode Psychosis Supervisor) works in the BHCS division under the direction of the Mental Health Program Director (Community Services Supervisor).
The incumbent provides education and counseling sessions to individuals and families who are service recipients of the BHCS First Episode of Psychosis (FEP) program.
50% Provision of Direct Services
- Provides services in the home or community to individuals and families in the four phases of the NAVIGATE Family Education Clinician module.
- In the Engagement and Stabilization Phase:
- Engages the individual and family with treatment services, including introducing staff members of the Navigate treatment team and provides a description of the family education program. Orients the individual and family in more detail and describes the specifics of the family program;
- Initiates assessment, goal setting, and treatment planning with the individual, family and treatment team; and
- Addresses urgent basic needs (housing, medical, and legal)
- In the Recovery Phase:
- Provides factual information necessary to support the individual in treatment and their family; and
- Provides family education sessions to include topics covered in the Navigate Family Education Clinician manual.
- In the Consolidating Gains Phase:
- Provides formal monthly check-ins face-to-face with the family;
- Encourages participation for the individual and family in treatment planning meetings;
- Provides support to the family and encouragement for the service recipient's participation in the Individualized Resiliency Training (IRT) module; and
- Provides a series of brief focused family consultation meetings when problems/issues arise with the individual and/or family.
- In the Prolonged Recovery Phase:
- Reviews progress made in the program with the individual and family;
- Reviews and refines the discharge plan; and
- Facilitates referrals to any additional resources needed by the family.
- The incumbent maintains a caseload of 25-30 individuals per requirements of the NAVIGATE model for a full team.
- Maintains a flexible schedule to ensure capacity to provide services within and outside of the traditional 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. work cycle, and within the service recipient's home or designated community setting. Services may be delivered in any setting deemed clinically appropriate. Must transport service recipients in agency vehicles. Incumbent must have a current driver's license, proof of insurance and clean driving record. Incumbent cannot transport service recipients in his/her personal vehicle.
25% Program Management and Operational Supervision
- Provides outreach to stakeholders to include but not limited to community behavioral health service providers, hospitals, Jefferson Parish Department of Juvenile Services, Jefferson Parish Behavioral Health Task Force, and Mobile Crisis Services. Outreach efforts should involve contact with prospective participants as well as professionals providing services to the target population.
- Provides supervision to the Recovery Support Specialist in the FEP program per JPHSA's Staff Development & Supervision Guidelines. Determines work assignments, coordinates workflow, and monitors subordinate's activities and productivity.
- Ensures staff attend all trainings, team meetings, and supervision.
- Collaborates with FEP staff members to ensure model compliant delivery of services and adherence to the NAVIGATE Evidenced Based Program fidelity.
- Develops and maintains highly professional and effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders and referral sources.
- Collects data and completes reports documenting program services and activities, and clinical outcomes.
- Completes documentation (e.g. assessments, progress notes, collateral contacts, including telephone calls) in the agency electronic health record on the day of service.
5% Other
- Actively participates in regularly scheduled supervisory meetings.
- Completes all mandatory trainings required by JPHSA, the NAVIGATE model, and any additional training required for licensure or registration with the appropriate board.
- Reports to work on time and requests leave as outlined in policy. Is accountable for monitoring and managing his/her own and direct supervisees' use of annual, sick, and leave without pay to maintain the continuity of tasks, assignments, and projects for which the work unit is responsible.
- Completes other duties designed to meet program, division and/or JPHSA needs.
Physical Requirements
This position fluctuates between an active and sedentary role, i.e. requires long periods of sitting at times and long periods of standing/walking at other times. Requires driving in the community.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
As part of a Career Progression Group, vacancies may be filled from this recruitment as a Social Worker 3 or 4 depending on the level of experience of the selected applicant(s). The maximum salary for the Social Worker 4 is $80,267. Please refer to the 'Job Specifications' tab located at the top of the LA Careers 'Current Job Opportunities' page of the Civil Service website for specific information on salary ranges, minimum qualifications and job concepts for each level.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
*Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. *
** Note regarding the advertised pay range : The advertised maximum amount listed is the maximum salary a person can make while in this title/level over their career and not the maximum amount we are allowed to pay a new hire .
For further information about this vacancy contact:
Scott Leonard
Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority
3616 S. I-10 Service Road West, Metairie, LA 70001
Sleonard@jphsa.org
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The master's degree in social work must be from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, 1701 Duke Street, Suite 200, Alexandria, VA 22314.
Function of Work:
To provide social work services.
Level of Work:
Advanced.
Supervision Received:
Broad review from a higher-level social worker, facility manager, or administrator.
Supervision Exercised:
May serve as a lead-worker of an interdisciplinary team or unit. May provide functional supervision over lower level social workers and professionals in other disciplines.
Location of Work:
Department of Health and Hospitals; LSU-Health Sciences Centers, Acute Care Hospitals, Medical Schools; Veterans Affairs; Department of Corrections.
Job Distinctions:
Differs from a Social Worker 2 by the presence of responsibility for specialized caseloads, lead-worker duties, or coordinating a specialized program for a facility/area/region.
Differs from the Social Worker 4 by the absence of licensure as a Clinical Social Worker.
Differs from the Social Worker 5-A by the absence of responsibility of serving as sole social worker of a facility having full managerial responsibility over a facility's social services program.
Differs from the Social Worker 5-B by the absence of direct supervisory responsibilities.
Plans, prioritizes and manages individual treatment programs by assessments of patients, clients and offenders. Conducts intensive interviews, gathering historical, medical and or technical data in order to determine and implement the most effective type of psychosocial intervention.
Coordinating a program (i.e., Prevention, Probation and Parole Aftercare) for a region as a significant duty.
Develops specialized therapeutic program content and implements new or revised programs as the program coordinator for a regional program.
Plans, prioritizes, and manages psychosocial assessments and clinical treatment services for the more complex, specialized cases at high risk or of an atypical nature.
Provides advanced technical and clinical consultation on psychosocial diagnosis and treatment when specialized treatment is indicated to overcome major problems in social dysfunction, serious behavior disorders or cases in which patients may be in jeopardy of severe risk to self or others.
Develops and implements complex individualized plans of service and social work treatment to address identified needs, problems, and behavioral/emotional reactions of patients and families.
Provides social work component on an multidisciplinary team for an area of medical specialization or for specific high-risk populations.
Provides expert testimony and/or advocacy representation for clients in court cases.
May conduct group therapy sessions for the support, education, and problem resolution of assigned population.
Interviews assigned cases for mental status examinations as requested to the parole board.
Serves as member of initial Classification Board on inmates arriving at correctional facility, and make appropriate referrals for treatment to other mental health team professionals for these inmates.
Serves as a member of Cell Block Review Boards and Reclassification Board providing mental health information as it pertains to inmate housing and work assignments; participates as a member of the disciplinary board when assigned.
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