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At Kaiser Permanente Northern California, you'll join a team of health advocates who share your passion for helping people. From our financial professionals and IT team members to our RNs and physicians on the front line of care-we work together to help our members achieve their best level of wellness. And you'll be inspired to do the same. Whether you dream of sailing the bay, hitting the slopes in the Sierras, hiking Yosemite, attending the opera, or strolling the vineyards, you'll discover the cultural and recreational diversity that makes Northern California one of the most desirable places in the world to live and work. Northern California's largest health plan, Kaiser Permanente provides you with the resources, scope, and opportunity you need to realize your goals. Come see for yourself.
Provides assessment, diagnosis, treatment and crisis intervention as needed to members who present themselves for psychiatric evaluation. Collaborates with treating physician, psychiatric and allied health professional team to plan and direct each individual member's treatment program.
Essential Functions:
- Assesses, develops and coordinates a clinical treatment program for Health Plan members with acute or chronic psychiatric disorders.
- Consults with staff regarding diagnosis, strengths and deficits of member, as needed or appropriate.
- Provides outpatient psychotherapy to individuals and groups.
- Charts member's treatments and progress in accordance with state regulations and department procedures.
- Instructs and counsels members regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens.
- Interprets psychiatric treatment to member's family and helps to reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of psychiatric care and continuation of treatment if asked to do so by member.
- Makes referrals to case manager, as appropriate, and/or refers member's family to community support services and resources.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of members.
- Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating members for psychotropic medications.
- May supervise PSW Assistants and PSW Interns, if supervision course has been completed.
- Works on-call evenings, weekends & holidays, assuming primary responsibility for emergency psychiatric care and acting as consultant to emergency department physicians and staff.
- Reports safety concerns to mandated reporting agencies.
Secondary Functions:
Provide individual, group, and family interventions with children, adolescents and teens. Provide adult treatment as needed. Provide consultation, liaison, and assessment services to self-referrals, Emergency Department, inpatient hospital, and other professional partners as part of a care provider team. Coordinate psychiatric hospitalizations or discharge plans for outpatient mental health follow-up. Ability to assess for chemical dependency and substance abuse problems. Schedule urgent appointments as needed. Expected to lead cognitive behavioral and/or dialectical behavior therapy group programs along with psycho-education for stated populations. Participation in Department and Service Team meetings as well as educational activities as approved by Supervisor. Maintain current licensing status and complete related continuing education and KP-defined competency training. Eligible to work weekend/ evening clinic hours and to be assigned evening/weekend pager duty pursuant to the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Bilingual Spanish-speaking candidates are encouraged to apply.
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Requirements |
Basic Qualifications:
- Outpatient Psychiatric Social Worker: Has experience in assessing, diagnosing and treating a broad range of psychiatric conditions.
- Master's degree in Social Work required from an accredited college or university.
- Valid Licensed Clinical Social Worker license in the State of California.
- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI) or obtain NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Must be familiar with DMS-IV-R as a means of diagnosis.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Knowledge of social service agencies, state regulations, and professional board standards as is related to member treatment, patient rights, and member/patient confidentiality.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Inpatient Psychiatric Social Worker:
- Working in an inpatient setting, a minimum of three years post licensure experience in acute inpatient psychiatric settings and with the use of psychosocial assessment and psychotherapeutic methods and measures in a hospital, clinic or agency preferred.
- Previous clinical responsibility to include crisis intervention, individual and group psychotherapy preferred.
- Previous clinical responsibility to include inpatient group treatment and crisis intervention preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
Desirable work experience and training include:
- Experience with Children, Adolescents, Teens Adults and pervasive mentally ill in an individual and group setting.
- Extensive experience in group, individual and family treatment with children, adolescents and teens.
- Assessment skills applicable to mapping out appropriate follow-up mental health services, including possible need for involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.
- Recent psychological testing experience and proficiency in psychological testing for Psychologist candidates.
- Applicants are expected to be comfortable working with an ethnically and culturally diverse patient population.
- Credentialing and Priviligeing approval for WCR Medical Centers.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the members treatment to include referral of the member and/or members family to external resources.
- Establishes liaisons to utilize resources of public and private agencies/community organizations to meet member and program needs.
- May conduct evaluations in Medicare, Social Security, and state disability cases.
This positions may be eligible to transfer to other MH/ CD sites within the DSA (Diablo Service Area).
This posting will accept job code 963005 - Psychologist or 963007- Licensed MFT
Primary Location: California-Pleasanton
Scheduled Hours (1-40): 40
Shift: Variable
Working Days: Varies
Working Hours Start: Varies
Working Hours End: Varies
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group: NUHW
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Job: Behavioral / Mental Health
Public Department Name: Mental Health
Travel: No
Job Eligible for Benefits: Yes
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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