Social Services Specialist

2 months ago

Macon, Georgia, United States GeorgiaGov Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Social Services Specialist to join our team at GeorgiaGov. As a key member of our staff, you will provide rehabilitation counseling services, referral services, and resident evaluation to assigned clients.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Intake Services

Perform and/or direct intake services to youth, ensuring all screenings are completed within time guidelines outlined in policy.

Mental Health Assessments

Direct or complete mental health assessments of youth, including:

  • Interviewing youth and/or families to obtain necessary information regarding medical, social, and/or emotional background.
  • Contacts other healthcare professionals within or outside the organization as necessary to obtain background information on the youth.
  • Reviews youth's record for background information.
  • Considers all available information to identify psycho-social stressors, strengths, challenges, risks, level of functioning, and needs.
  • Completes a written mental health assessment in accordance with accepted professional standards, DJJ policy, OBHS guidance, and direction from clinical supervisor.
  • Determines appropriate services and alternate plans of care based on assessment findings.
  • Makes necessary referrals to other providers as indicated by findings in the youth's mental health assessment.
  • Documents referrals, recommendations, and plans in a timely manner.
  • Correctly files assessments and/or updates in youth's record.
Therapeutic Counseling

Provides therapeutic counseling to individuals, groups, or families to effect positive change in the youth's behavior and/or social situations, including:

  • Complies with regulations on confidentiality of information as specified by agency policy.
  • Develops and implements treatment plans and/or crisis management plans in a timely manner.
  • Conducts individual treatment sessions to provide appropriate support, guidance, and direction to enhance the youth's personal and social development.
  • Facilitates group therapy sessions using accepted therapeutic methods to promote planned change.
  • Provides crisis intervention services in a timely manner to youth who present with serious and imminent risk of harm to self or others due to mental health concerns.
  • Provides consultation and guidance to other staff who interact with youth to ensure that supervision and care is provided in a consistent manner to promote positive adjustment, safety, and development of the youth.
Treatment Team Participation

Leads or participates as a member of a treatment team to identify youths' strengths, resources, symptoms, and psychological challenges to develop and monitor an effective plan of treatment, including:

  • Presents a complete and accurate summary of assessment to treatment team members at treatment team meetings.
  • Participates in the identification of youth's strengths and weaknesses and the selection of appropriate treatment goals and interventions.
  • Provides appropriate clinical input into the development of the youth's treatment plans.
  • Initiates appropriate changes in the youth's treatment plan at treatment team meetings based on reassessment of therapeutic needs.
  • Writes concise, accurate, clear progress notes in the youth's mental health record as required by policy.
Reporting and Documentation

Prepares and submits required reports and other documentation, including:

  • Prepares accurate reports as required by departmental policies and local operating procedures.
  • Submits all reports, forms, and other documentation in a timely manner.
  • Presents a complete and accurate verbal summary of reports to treatment team members during team meetings.
Clinical Supervision

Engages in clinical supervision to facilitate development of clinical knowledge, skills, and professional integrity of mental health services provided to youth, including:

  • Participates actively in clinical supervision sessions as required by policy.
  • Contacts clinical supervisor(s) for consultation or clinical supervision whenever the clinician encounters a situation that poses substantial ethical or clinical challenges.
Agency Qualifications

We are seeking candidates with a Master's degree from an accredited college or university in Psychology, Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Rehabilitation Counseling, Professional Counseling, or Master's of Education Counseling, and eligibility to be licensed as a counselor in the State of Georgia.

Preferred qualifications include completion of a Master's degree in a mental health field from an accredited college or university and licensure as a State of Georgia Professional Counselor, Social Worker, or Marriage and Family Therapist.

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