Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Job Description

Description

​​​​​​​Our team is growing! Pardee BlueMD, a part of UNC Pardee Health Care, is a primary care physician practice network organized as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Our full-time positions offer a range of benefits, including medical, vision and dental insurance, retirement savings, paid time off, and more. This clinical social work position also offers credentialing with all payors, paid liability insurance covered by employer,  and federal public loan forgiveness eligibility (PSLF). In addition, this role is eligible for inclusion in the National Health Service Corps (NHRC) Loan Repayment Program (LRP), offering student loan repayment assistance up to $50,000 annually for an initial period of two years, as subject to the LRP requirements and application process. Pay for this position ranges from approximately $30 - $36.50 hourly according to experience and equity with current staff. 

Come be happy with Pardee!

Summary:
The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) provides acute and longitudinal patient care in the outpatient medical office setting. They will work in a team-based environment providing counseling services along with ongoing care management support and expertise through comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and overall evaluation of individual patient and practice needs. The position will collaboratively enhance the quality of patient management and satisfaction, and promote continuity of care and cost effectiveness by partnering with medical providers, care management, and the entire clinical team. The LCSW must be highly organized professional with great attention to detail, adaptable to frequent change, and compliant with regulatory and departmental guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities:
• Assesses and documents bio-psychosocial needs and prepares a formal intervention plan to suit.
• Evaluates and identifies possible or actual patient/family crises, providing crisis intervention and emotional support, and creating and facilitating effective plans for resolution.
• Delivers information and short-term therapeutic counseling to patients and their families in relation to social, psychological, and family situations.
• Develops and maintains relationships with outside community health and social agencies. Monitors ongoing and new community resources for meeting patient needs.
• Refers patients and families with appropriate community assistance resources.
• Obtains, interprets and documents necessary information regarding patients and families, including bio-psychosocial history factors, and communicates to interdisciplinary care team.

Qualifications
Required

• Master's degree in Social Work (MSW) from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) certification

Preferred

• Experience working in an outpatient / ambulatory clinical care setting

About Pardee BlueMD

Pardee BlueMD is a Federally Qualified Health Center organized as a partnership between Pardee UNC Health Care and Blue Ridge Health. Spread across 12 individual locations in WNC, this partnership is specifically structured to allow our care team to more ardently pursue innovation in reducing gaps in care, create a more seamless delivery model, and improve patient outcomes.

https://www.pardeehospital.org/care-treatment/primarycare/pardee-bluemd/

About Us

At Pardee UNC Health Care, we lead with the heart. A local organization with deep regional ties, Pardee is a not-for-profit hospital system in Hendersonville, NC, aimed at improving the health of the communities it serves. While independently financed by its operations and foundation, Pardee is owned by Henderson County and managed by UNC Health. Our connection with the Western North Carolina region gives us focus, and our association with UNC Health provides the tools to succeed.

Our system consists of a core hospital licensed for 222 beds, an outlying primary and specialty care physician practice network, and a number of urgent care clinics. These operations are supported by more than 1800 team members, covering comprehensive clinical care as well as a wide array of support services including foodservice, facilities management, human resources and more. Come be happy with Pardee.

Learn more at pardeehospital.org/careers.

Job Details

Legal Employer: Pardee - HCHC

Entity: Pardee UNC Health Care

Organization Unit: Blue MD Administration

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: PARDEEHOSP

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No