Social Worker - Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Finance)
This role will support UTHealth Houston's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' HOMES program, using cognitive behavioral therapy to support treatment and research for persons experiencing homelessness. Project HOMES partners with recovery homes across Texas to support fully-funded communities where individuals using medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid and other addictions can build personalized paths to recovery. We focus on medically-assisted recovery (MAR), advocating for inclusive support systems that challenge common myths and stigma, and ensure people using medication are not excluded from the recovery community.
What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas' resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That's where you come in.
Once you join us you won't want to leave. It's because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you'd expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time - all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you'll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees' wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
- Plus many more!
Position Summary:
Provides professional work involving medical and psychiatric social case services to interpret social and environmental factors relating to treatment and/or research.
Position Key Accountabilities:
1. Interviews and screens patients to interpret social and environmental factors and medical requirements part of case conceptualization and the development of treatment goals.
2. Plans course of treatment to ensure that patients receive appropriate treatment or referral.
3. Obtains clinical assessment data from patients to understand their presenting problems and need for treatments.
4. Works towards meeting total patient care and handles all aspects of routine casework. This includes interviews with the patients to study the individual's problems and needs, confers with the physician, faculty, and/or with any social agency which may have an interest in the patient's problem, and to make psychological and social adjustments necessitated by serious mental illness or co-occurring disorders, and conducts individual and group therapiesusing evidence-based practices
5. Prepares therapy notes and may audiorecord sessions with patients for review with coworkers or a faculty member.
6. Solicits the assistance of religious, social, and welfare agencies in the treatment of patients. Interacts with community health workers, research assistants, social work staff at community-based agencies and psychiatric residents and faculty.
7. Responds to emergency situations.
8. Performs other duties as assigned.
Certification/Skills:
Licensure as a Bachelor Social Worker (LBSW) by the Texas Board of Social Work is required.
Licensure as a Master Social Worker (LMSW) by the Texas Board of Social Work is preferred.
Minimum Education:
Bachelor Degree in Social Work or related field.
Minimum Experience:
None
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code ยง 51.215
Veteran Information:
Military occupations that relate to the initial selection criteria and registration or licensure requirements for this position may include but are not limited to: 0868, 42S1, 42S3, 42S4, 42SX, 73A.
For a complete list please visit www.uthealth-veterans.jobs .
Residency Requirement:
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
