Job Description

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

Assess and treat patients and their families in understanding and coping with emotional and social problems with respect and aloha. Provides care planning and case coordination. Initiates social work / mental health plan of care and works in collaboration with other MCHC Providers. Serves as liaison between MCHC and community to integrate services, coordinate care for clients, and enhance relationships through MCHC programming as well as public relations activities.

Prepares and evaluates assessments, development and implementation of social work service plans. Provides psychosocial assessment, diagnostic impressions, treatment of individuals/couples/families/groups, prevention of psychosocial dysfunction/disability/impairment including emotional/mental/behavioral disorders, and evaluation of practice effectiveness.

Applies knowledge base, theoretical concepts, specific functional skills, and essential social values used to effect change in human behavior, emotional responses, and social conditions. Helps enhance or restore personal and social functioning.

Perform case management, coordination, casework intervention, and monitoring of social work service plans in areas of personal, social, or economic resources, conditions, or problems. Provides information, resource identification and referral services, mediation services, advocacy services, and education of individuals, groups, couples, and families. Coordinates services and assures patients placement in an appropriate setting.

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