STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
HUMAN RESOURCES
CLASSIFICATION: PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKER
Class Code: 7160-23
Date Established: 08-23-51
Occupational Code: 7-7-5
Date of Last Revision: 03-09-06
BASIC PURPOSE: To collect and assess psychosocial
information, participate in formulating treatment goals, and to provide
short-term and long-term therapies and affect a comprehensive discharge plan
for acutely ill individuals with a wide range of psychiatric disabilities.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Compiles important
psychosocial information to assist in determining appropriateness of a hospital
admission and/or determining the needs of the patient.
·
Completes initial
social assessment and in-depth comprehensive assessments by specified time
frames.
·
Uses diagnostic
information to participate in formulation of treatment goals based on
identification of problem areas.
·
Provides a wide range
of short-term therapies during treatment or crisis intervention.
·
Coordinates family
involvement and establishes contacts with community based agencies for
appropriate care and/or aftercare.
·
Consults with other
professional staff regarding treatments, psychosocial diagnostic formulations,
discharge planning, availability of community resources and types of community
programs.
·
Provides clinical
summary and/or discharge related documentation.
·
Monitors, evaluates
and provides clinical supervision to subordinate level social workers.
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DISTINGUISHING FACTORS:
Skill: Requires skill in developing formats
and procedures for special applications OR in investigating and reviewing the
use of equipment and data for a specialized function.
Knowledge: Requires logical or scientific
expertise to resolve problems of a specialized or professional nature in a wide
range of applications.
Impact: Requires responsibility for achieving
direct service objectives by assessing agency service needs and making
preliminary recommendations for the development of alternative short-term
program policies or procedures.
Errors at this level result in incomplete assessments or misleading
recommendations causing a disruption of agency programs or policies.
Supervision: Requires direct supervision of other
employees doing related or similar work, including scheduling work,
recommending leave, reviewing work for accuracy, performance appraisal, or
interviewing applicants for position vacancies.
Working Conditions: Requires performing regular job
functions in an adverse working environment containing a combination of
disagreeable elements which impact significantly upon the employee's capacity
for completing work assignments.
This level includes work-related accidents or assault.
Physical Demands: Requires light work, including
continuous walking or operating simple equipment for extended periods of time
as well as occasional strenuous activities such as reaching or bending.
Communication: Requires reviewing summaries and
reports and making decisions to solve problems or to achieve work objectives as
well as articulating and expressing those solutions and goals. This level also requires formal
presentations of solutions and goals to employees and the general public to
increase the responsiveness of the agency toward the demands of its client
system.
Complexity: Requires coordinating a combination of
diverse job functions in order to integrate professional and technical agency
goals. This level also requires
considerable judgment to implement a sequence of operations or actions.
Independent Action: Requires objective assessment in
analyzing and developing new work methods and procedures subject to periodic
review and in making decisions according to established technical, professional
or administrative standards.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Master's
degree in Social Work (MSW) from a college or university approved by the
Council on Social Work Education.
Experience: Three years’ experience involving
psychiatric social work (mental, emotional or behavioral disorders) prior to or
subsequent to obtaining the graduate degree.
License/Certification: New Hampshire driver's license and/or
access to transportation with liability insurance as required by state laws if
necessary for performing job accountabilities
RECOMMENDED
WORK TRAITS: Extensive knowledge of psychiatric case
work principles, techniques and practices and their application to individual
case problems. Extensive knowledge
of mental health problems, of modern methods of treatment and of the social
aspects of such conditions.
Considerable knowledge and skill in community organization and availability
of community resources.
Appreciation of involved psychological and environmental problems
arising in connection with case work.
Ability to exercise good judgment in evaluating situations and making
decisions. Ability to write case
histories and related reports.
Ability to explain departmental policy, procedures and objectives. Ability to understand environmental
factors in individual cases and to apply this understanding in social
adjustments and rehabilitation.
Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with
representatives of other social agencies, institution officials, the general
public and clients. Ability to
communicate effectively. Must be
willing to maintain appearance appropriate to assigned duties and
responsibilities as determined by the agency appointing authority.
DISCLAIMER STATEMENT: This class specification is descriptive
of general duties and is not intended to list every specific function of this
class title.
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