Social Worker, Mental Health

Position: SOCIAL WORKER 2, 3, or 4

Why work for CAHS?

• Vision:CAHS excels at making lives better.
• Mission:To deliver caring and responsive services, leading to a better tomorrow.
• Philosophy: CAHS commits to the philosophy that all individuals are valuable members of the community. CAHS exists to help each person(s) served live productively in the location and environment of the choosing and abilities. CAHS staff works as a unified team to provide services and supports that helps person(s) served succeed in work, school, life, and other endeavors they purse.

Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice as a Licensed Master's Social Worker (LMSW) or a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) plus:

A master's degree in social work followed by one year of social services experience.

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here
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Job Duties:

• Manages a large, complex caseload of clients who are individuals with serious and persistent mental illness.
• Provides specialized individual, group or family therapy utilizing advanced social work skills.
• Completes psychosocial assessments on new clients and prepares individualized treatment plans for multi-disciplinary staff meetings.
• Manages complex situations dealing with interpersonal, social or co-occurring issues.
• Provides timely documentation of contacts within the client chart and carries out appropriate discharge planning.

• . Provides screening on clients with mental health disorders and co-occurring disorders.

• Develops with client their individual treatment plan listing his or her goals and objectives, strengths, weaknesses and action plan.

Position-Specific Details:

This position may be filled as:

• Temporary Job Appointment:
  This position may be filled by temporary job appointment not to exceed 48 months.
• Probational Appointment:
  Current permanent status classified State employees may be required to accept a probational appointment, if selected.

About this position:

• This vacancy is located at Baton Rouge Behavioral Health's Admission Department.
• Licensed Master's Social Worker (LMSW) or Louisiana Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensure by the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners is required for this job.

As part of a Career Progression Group, vacanciesmay be filled from this recruitment as a Social Worker 2, 3 or 4 depending on the level of education and experience of the selected applicant(s).

• Social Worker 2(pay grade level SS-413) has a minimum salary of $19.67/hourly; $1,573.60/bi-weekly.
• Social Worker 3(pay grade level SS-414) has a minimum salary of $21.05/hourly; $1,684.00/bi-weekly.
• Social Worker 4(pay grade level SS-415) has a minimum salary of $22.52/hourly; $1,801.60/bi-weekly.

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* Note regarding the advertised pay range
:The advertised maximum amount listed is the maximum salary a person can make while in this title/level over their career and not the maximum amount we are allowed to pay a new hire.

How To Apply:
REVIEW YOUR APPLICATION TO MAKE SURE IT IS CURRENT. ResumesWILL NOTbe accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

To apply for this vacancy,click on the“Apply”link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities.

• Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
• There is no guarantee that everyone who applies to this posting will be interviewed. The hiring supervisor/manager has 90 days from the closing date of the announcement to make a hiring decision. Specific information about this job will be provided to you in the interview process, should you be selected.

For further information about this vacancy contact:
Thrinacia.

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Capital Area Human Services District
7389 Florida Blvd, Suite 100
Baton Rouge, LA 70806 #J-18808-Ljbffr