Director of Social Services, Brockton Behavioral Health Center (Full-time)

Position: Director of Social Services

Department: Brockton

Schedule: Full Time

Core Requirements:

• Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to interact effectively with the multi-disciplinary clinical team
• Organizational, problem solving and time management skills
• Advance principles of abnormal psychology
• Experience working with psychiatric patients-some hospital experience preferred

Basic Duties and Responsibilities:

• Carries out the personnel management activities associated with direct staff supervision, including screening and selection, orientation training, and development, performance management and employee relations functions.
• Conducts psychosocial assessments with patients, families, community providers to document history and identify preliminary issues for treatment focus, as needed.
• Develops and coordinates individualized treatment and discharge plans to determine aftercare needs, as needed.
• Represents the facility in involuntary commitment hearings, as needed.
• Attends treatment team meetings to provide social work perspective to total case management.
• Reports to community/state agencies and partnerships, as needed.
• Provides supervision to psychiatric social workers who have not yet obtained independent licensure.

Qualifications

**A Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts is required for this position**

• Must have, as a minimum, 3 years of supervised social work experience.
• Must demonstrate exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• 5+ years management experience
• Must possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, patients, family members, visitors, government, state, and local agencies, community providers, and the general public.
• Must possess leadership ability and willingness to work harmoniously with a multi-disciplinary team.  

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans