Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Reporting directly to the Director of Clinical Services, the Licensed Certified Social Worker- Clinical

(LCSW-C) provides Behavior Support Services, skill building, behavior, and clinical direction for treatment of people supported by agency. The LCSW-C works with an inter-disciplinary team to ensure the implementation of comprehensive treatment plans that integrate biological, medical, psychiatric, psychological, behavioral, neurological, intellectual, educational, and emotional components specific to each person’s needs. The LCSW-C uses evidence based and best practices and ensures compliance with agency and state requirements.

PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS :

• Provides Behavior Support Services including billing to agency.
• Collaborates with other departments / agencies to ensure proper training of managers and staff to implement behavior plans as required, including timely and effective data collection.
• Conducts clinical assessments including functional behavior assessments, verbal behavior, preference assessments, and skill assessments.
• Develops, revises, and updates behavior support plans annually, and as needed, to include skill development, trauma impact, and changing socially significant challenging behavior.
• Designs and maintains systems that assist with clinical interventions, including defining structure and responsibilities of the clinical team members.
• Provides clinical consultation both internally and externally as applicable.
• Ensures behavioral documentation complies with state and funding agency regulations and requirements.
• Writes monthly progress notes with graphs.
• Ensures data is provided to the psychiatrist to make informed and educated decisions regarding psychotropic medication.
• Delegates assignments to ensure the most effective completion of tasks and assumes responsibility for the outcome.
• Provide and oversee procedural integrity of behavior support plan implementation.
• Implements risk / benefit analysis of restrictive practices to write fade plans.
• Works collaboratively with the Quality department, and other agency stakeholders and committees.
• Supervises clinical team members.
• All other duties as assigned.

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