Psychiatric Social Worker Ii/correctional Health

2 weeks ago

Los Angeles County CA, United States Los Angeles County Department of Human Resources Full time

**TYPE OF RECRUITMENT**:
**Open Competitive Job Opportunity** - **EMERGENCY**

**EXAM NUMBER**:

- Y9035T-DOJ

**FIRST DAY OF FILING**:
May 28, 2024, AT 8:00 a.m., PT**NO OUT-OF-CLASS EXPERIENCE OR **WITHHOLDS** ARE ALLOWED FOR THIS EXAMINATION.**

**Correctional Health Services - 20% Recruitment and Retention Bonus**
The County of Los Angeles is currently offering up to 20% bonus for full-time **Psychiatric Social Worker II** positions hired by Correctional Health Services and working on-site in a designated facility to meet critical healthcare needs for the uniquely underserved jail population.

Los Angeles County is under a Department of Justice Consent Decree to improve conditions and mental health care in County jails and support justice-involved populations post-release. We are looking for qualified and passionate individuals to help us in our mission of providing a range of services both in the jail and community. If you are looking for a new career that will directly benefit the justice-involved population of LA County, this may be the opportunity for you.

Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment.
Before your initial work period ends, you will be assessed on your work performance. This assessment will be weighted 100%.
Those who successfully pass the assessment will be considered for permanent appointment to **Psychiatric Social Worker II.**

**ABOUT LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES**:
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) is the second-largest municipal health system in the nation. Through its integrated system of 25 health centers, four acute hospitals, and an expanded network of community partner clinics - DHS annually provides direct care for 600,000 unique patients, employs over 23,000 staff, and has an annual budget of over $6.9 billion.

Through academic affiliations with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California (USC), and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Sciences (CDU), DHS hospitals are training sites for physicians completing their Graduate Medical Education in nearly every medical specialty and subspecialty. In addition to its direct clinical services, DHS also runs the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency and the County's 911 emergency response system, as well as Housing for Health and the Office of Diversion and Re-entry, each with a critical role in connecting vulnerable populations, including those released from correctional and institutional settings to supportive housing.
**THE MISSION**:
To advance the health of our patients and our communities by providing extraordinary care.
**DEFINITION**:
Performs a wide variety of professional social work services in connection with the treatment of clients in need of mental health services.

**Essential Job Functions**:

- Interviews individuals and/or their families to obtain a family, social work, medical, and mental health treatment history.
- Makes an assessment of the patient's functioning in his/her environmental setting.
- Establishes a treatment plan designed to resolve or cope with the mental or emotional problem. The treatment plan may include individual, group, family or conjoint therapy, and/or referral to another treatment source such as a psychologist, vocational or rehabilitation counselor, psychiatrist for medication or another agency.
- Provides psychotherapy to individuals, groups, families, and significant others.
- Determines the duration of the therapy, the priorities of the problems to be dealt with, the therapy methods, and the need for changes in the treatment goals at successive intervals during treatment process.
- Interviews persons seeking psychiatric assistance on an emergency basis and utilizes crisis intervention techniques to prevent hospitalization and to aid the person in dealing with the emotional crisis.
- Assists clients, families, and significant others in understanding the mental health problem and their reactions to the problems, accepting the need for treatment, working toward the solution of the problem and stresses interfering with treatment or social functioning, modifying unrealistic attitudes and strengthening patients and families and significant others toward gaining their acceptance of and participation in treatment recommendations.

**Requirements**:
**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**:
**LICENSE**:
A valid and active license as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker issued by the California Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Behavioral Sciences.

**Applications submitted without evidence of the required licenses or certificates will be rejected.**

A valid California Class C Driver License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.

**PHYSICAL CLASS II - Light**:
This class includes administrative

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