LICSW/LCSW wanted for School Program

Employer: Providence Community Health Centers
375 Allens Avenue
Providence, RI 02905
Contact: Iris Clements
Phone: 4017802572

Email: iclements@Providencechc.org

Job Description

For four years running, Providence Community Health Centers has been named a Best Places to Work and RI Healthiest Employer by Providence Business News.


SMART Purpose: Our purpose is to break the cycle of poverty and positively impact the trajectory of lives. We achieve this by identifying the physical, social, emotional, and behavioral barriers to classroom success and then delivering interventions to address those barriers, and thus creating optimal conditions for learning through the deployment of Active Access to deliver Active Care for ALL students, school faculty and staff, and students’ families. Integrated Behavioral Health Clinicians ensuring the team’s ability to view students’ and their family’s care needs through a “Whole Child, Whole School” lens, treating social, emotional or behavioral issues created by underlying medical conditions, lifestyle factors or resulting medical condition from those factors.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) /Population Care Coordinator Position Summary: Manage the care of the patient population by initiating and administering, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary tiered interventions, commencing with an integrative health assessment, which assists with risk and problem identification, then identifying and implementing appropriate interventions and follow-up strategies. Working in collaboration with the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), the SMART team, and the student, and in some cases school personnel, define expected patient outcomes, describe appropriate resource utilization, and develop individual goal plans. Provide support/care coordination to the practice program, in order to optimize patient health and academic outcomes, while maximizing existing resources/partnerships within the school and minimizing duplication of services. Emphasize supporting academic success in each plan of care and goal. Utilize aggregate population data to ascertain major population risk factors and/or social determinants and work collaboratively with the school partner and SMART team to identify and prioritize risks and create and execute actionable solutions to mitigate the negative impact of those social determinants. Work to Maximize SMART’s capacity to support a trauma-informed framework and healing, in keeping with the SMART Whole Child, Whole School approach. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Experience working with children and families; must be able to work independently. Multi-lingual skills a plus.

FTE: .70, work hours match school calendar days and hours, normally 7am to 3:30pm or 8:00am–4:30pm M/F/V/D encouraged to apply. PCHC is committed to diversity!

Requirements

LCSW or LICSW

Salary Levels

$0.00 - $0.00

Positions Available

There are 1 positions available at this time.

Application Period

Thursday, October 29, 2020 through Tuesday, December 29, 2020