Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Healthy Steps Program

Community health is about more than just vaccines and checkups. It's about giving people the resources they need to live their best lives. At Neighborhood, this is our vision. A community where everyone is healthy and happy. We're with you every step of the way, with the care you need for each of life's chapters. At Neighborhood, we are Better Together.

As a private, non-profit 501(C) (3) community health organization, we serve over 414,995 medical, dental, and behavioral health visits from more than 87,099 people annually. We do this in pursuit of our mission to improve the health and happiness of the communities we serve by providing quality care to all, regardless of situation or circumstance.

We have been doing this since 1969 and it is our employees that make this mission a reality. Regardless of the role, our team focuses on being compassionate, having integrity, being professional, always collaborating, and consistently going above and beyond. If that sounds like an organization you want to be a part of, we would love to have you.

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker will meet with individuals, families, and groups of patients to provide behavioral psychotherapy services. This role will serve as the early child development expert who will join the pediatric primary care team to provide oversight of clinical interventions and follow-up for families with patients between the ages of 0-5 years old. Additionally, this role will serve as project lead by overseeing the implementation of the Healthy Steps program. This position is eligible for a $5,000 signing bonus!

Roles & Responsibilities

Direct Patient Care

• Conducts team-based well-child visits to monitor development, social-emotional functioning, and relational health, including providing anticipatory guidance

• Consults with pediatric patients/parents about behavioral aspects of their medical treatment following the Healthy Steps tiered service delivery

• Evaluates patients to identify social, emotional, and economic factors which may interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care

• Develops and implements a social work treatment plan to be offered to patients/parents

• Provides brief psychotherapy to patients and families

• Responds promptly and with caring actions to patients/parents and employees

• Maintains the child development support line, including responding and tracking call requests within the designated response time

• Deliver and assesses Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ9), and the Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ2/3) tools

• Documents and shares patient screening scores and barriers with primary care and/or behavioral health providers, including appropriate consult documentation is secured in patient medical records

• Acknowledges and honors patients' psychosocial, spiritual, and cultural beliefs

Provider & Team-Based Care

• Builds strong relationships with families and providers to increase the efficiency of the medical system and support team-based comprehensive care

• Collaborates with Healthy Steps implementation team to implement core components of the program

• Maintains open communication with members of the primary care team

• Works with pediatric primary providers around care coordination, goal setting, coaching, and education about key aspects of a child's development

• Provides consultation and/or facilitates training to medical professionals and practice staff regarding early childhood development, early relational health/infant early childhood mental health, and trauma-informed practice

• Utilizes evidence-based approaches when engaging with patients to increase their sense of control over their health, such as motivational interviewing to promote collaboration between patients and their medical/behavioral care team

• Engages in continuous quality improvement (CQI) initiatives to ensure the Healthy Steps model is delivered with fidelity

• Maintains professional working relationships with all levels of staff, clients, and the public

• Participates on the Healthy Steps implementation team, including attending regular team meetings

• Tracks caseload to ensure capacity to deliver the Healthy Steps services within the risk stratified service delivery model, including ensuring exit criteria is met and families/children are elevated to higher levels of care or referred to community providers, as needed

Clinical Administration

• Applies Healthy Steps tiers of service delivery when providing services to children and their families in the Healthy Steps program

• Designs, markets, conducts, and evaluates health promotion programs for child development, social-emotional, and behavioral screenings for family needs, such as maternal depression, risk factors, and social determinants of health

• Participates in case conferences, departmental or agency meetings, and trainings, as directed

• Participates in care coordination and collaboration with Interfaith Community Services shared patients

Requirements

Education/Experience

• Master's degree in social work required

• Valid CA Clinical Social Worker License (LCSW) required

• Two years' psychotherapy experience (pre or post doc/licensure) working directly with children, adults, or adolescents required

• Experience providing health psychology services with an emphasis in early childhood development and screening assessments required

• Bilingual (Spanish/English) required.

Additional Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)

• Ability to commit to work with underserved populations in a community setting

• Ability to provide support and empathy to patients

• Knowledgeable about and experience with early childhood growth and development, parent-child relational health, infant/early childhood mental health, and family systems

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including superior composition, typing, and proofreading skills

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

• Knowledgeable about and experience with providing psychotherapy and familiarity with medical service environments or provision of health psychology services

• Knowledge with word-processing, spreadsheets, and electronic medical records systems

• Ability to chart simultaneously while in session with patients

• Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks simultaneously

• Excellent planning and organizational ability

• Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently

• Ability to work with highly confidential information in a professional and ethical manner

Salary range: $90,816.30-$110,997.70 depending on experience. This position is eligible for a $5,000 signing bonus!