Social Worker LCSW/LCPC, Weekdays, The Ridge School

Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health

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The Ridge School, Adventist HealthCare, is hiring a full-time Social Worker in Rockville, Maryland who will embrace our mission to extend God's care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

The Ridge School of Montgomery County is a special education day school for students in grades 6 through 12 with emotional disabilities, learning disabilities, and other behavioral health impairments. We provide educational, clinical, and behavioral services to students.

As a Social Worker you will:

• Complete initial intake assessments, which include evaluating the emergent nature of a referral, explaining the nature of services to referral sources, and identifying what types of services are needed

• Provide diagnostic evaluations of children with suspected psychological problems or developmental delays. Assess family functioning, identifying the quality of parent-child relationships and the family's dynamics. Related duties include preparing written evaluations, obtaining relevant information from school settings, making home and school visits as appropriate, interpreting the results for parents and other professionals working with a client, developing home programs, treatment plans, and educational plans.

• Provide psychotherapeutic treatment to children and their families including individual play therapy, parent collateral work, family therapy, couples therapy and group therapy. Monitor progress of children/families in treatment and formally reviews treatment plan and goals every three months. Consult with other professionals working with the client both at the Ridge School and with outside of the agencies, to assure coordinated and comprehensive service delivery.

• Consult to professionals in the community including pediatricians, school administrators, child welfare/DHHS case workers regarding the appropriateness of referrals and the progress in therapy and ongoing therapeutic needs of individual clients at our school. Provide recommendations for treatment and school placement and in support of this responsibility, participate in school meetings e.g. IEP's and multidisciplinary meetings at The Ridge School.

• Participate in scheduled interdisciplinary meetings to formulate a comprehensive diagnosis and implement coordinated treatment planning for Ridge School clients, as well as to review the progress made in treatment and to develop new treatment strategies for children at The Ridge School. Participate in case conferences, disposition meetings and staff meetings, as needed.

• Provide case management services for children manifesting a psychological disorder as the primary diagnosis. Screen for other disorders or delays in development and make appropriate referrals for services.

• Perform basic administrative tasks related to work assignments that meet COMAR requirements for OMHC including the timely preparation of written reports, billing forms, work schedules, and progress notes to document treatment sessions.

• Maintain medical records in a complete, timely and legible form, including parent information forms, consent forms, data collection forms, progress notes, and treatment plans and goals.

• Interpret The Ridge School's function and philosophy through contacts with the community in addition to actively recruiting referrals for The Ridge School.

• Continue professional education in Social Work by attending formal continuing education programs, conferences, advanced training, and by regular consultation with health care providers. Receive weekly clinical supervision.

• Accesses Protected Health Information on a routine basis. Employee must comply with all privacy standards of The Ridge School that include HIPAA, COMAR and others - state and federal regulations.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications include:

• Completed graduate level education, training and supervision

• Experience with a wide variety of clinical treatment modalities is required in addition to supervised experience providing psychotherapeutic services to children ages 12 - 18 years of age and their families. It is understood that the clinician has had progressively responsible clinical experiences. Demonstrated expertise in the use of psycho-social assessment and treatment for children 12 -18 years of age is required.

• Knowledge of psychological disorders from infancy through adulthood is essential.

• Requires a LCSW-C or LCPC Clinical License or equivalent.

• Active American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.

Work Schedule:

Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm

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