Full-time Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Wanted in Eugene, OR

Park Avenue Psychotherapy PC is currently seeking a full-time/part-time Social Worker, LCSW to work in the State. The Social Worker, LCSW, provides psychosocial assessments, intervention, and/or treatment and discharge planning to patients and families to assist them in coping with their hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, and/or life situation and meet the continuing needs of patients post hospitalization. The Social Worker, LCSW, administers a broad variety of therapies and is the designated expert, consultant, or source of knowledge within the social work profession.

Provides psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.

Responsibilities:

• The Social Worker, LCSW, provides psychosocial assessments, intervention, and/or treatment and discharge planning to patients and families to assist them in coping with their hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, and/or life situation and meet the continuing needs of patients post hospitalization
• The Social Worker, LCSW, administers a broad variety of therapies and is the designated expert, consultant, or source of knowledge within the social work profession
• Provides psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation
• Formulates develops, and implements a plan utilizing appropriate social work interventions
• Collaborates with the health care team and involves the patient/family in the development and implementation of plans
• Facilitates discharge planning across a multidisciplinary care continuum which includes interacting with consulting physicians, third party payers and other health care providers to facilitate the movement of the patient through the system and arrangement of an appropriate discharge plan
• Provides education and counseling to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient's illness and/or life situation
• May utilize crisis intervention, brief and long-term individual, group, and family therapies
• May function as a resource to other staff as appropriate
• Provides education to other health care professionals
• Clinically evaluates oncology patients for depression, anxiety and provides short-term counseling
• On-call rotation for the facility to receive and facilitate after-hour calls
• Presents at educational conferences as the expert in psychosocial oncology practice
• Services to the community through education, consultation, research, and volunteering to utilize, promote, or strengthen the community services, programs, and resources available to meet the needs of cancer survivors
• Services to the profession to support the appropriate orientation, supervision and evaluation of clinical social workers in oncology; participate in and promote student training and professional education in oncology social work; and advance knowledge through clinical and other research
• Provides the use of scientific and applied knowledge, theories, and methods for the purpose of describing, preventing, evaluating, and treating individuals, couples, marital, family, or group behavior, based on the person-in-situation perspective of psychosocial development, normal and abnormal behavior, psychopathology, unconscious motivation, interpersonal relationships, environmental stress, differential assessment, differential planning, and data gathering
• Provides psychotherapeutic services to patients and relatives in individual, couple, or group settings to assist them in adjusting to the physical/psychological difficulties associated with illness
• Counsel patients and relatives on the psychosocial ramifications of cancer which may include grief counseling
• Performs other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work
• Certification and Licensing:
• State Social Worker license. BLS Certified (within 3 months of hire)
• Minimum 1 year of experience

Salary:

• $70,000 - $100,000 + Bonus

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation as a W2 employee
• Freedom to create your own work schedule including a hybrid work-from-home
• Therapists are compensated at an hourly rate
• Fully covered overheard costs - furnished office space, EMR system, office supplies, malpractice insurance
• Health insurance
• Flexible schedule

Apply today with your resume to start a fulfilling career and make a positive difference in people's lives.