Licensed Clinical Social Worker

We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Licensed Clinical Social worker to join our quickly growing Illinois team! This role will provide care in a primary care clinic, virtually, and community settings as needed. As a core member of our collaborative community care team, you will work closely with partner primary care physicians, a supervising psychiatric consultant, and our broader team in the field to ensure appropriate support for patients in need of behavioral health support.

What you’ll Do

As a Social Worker at Diverge, your role will involve supporting and coordinating the mental health care of patients, ensuring collaboration with the primary care provider of assigned patients and the broader care team. Leveraging your clinical insight and connectedness to patients, creating connections across the broader mental health system when necessary to improve patient support and improvement.

Key areas you’ll add value

• Provide comprehensive social work interventions to patients and their families, including psychosocial assessment, brief individual or family counseling, advocacy, service linkage, referral, group work, case coordination, and long-term care planning and placement.
• Screen and assess patients for common mental health and substance abuse disorders; facilitate patient engagement and follow-up care.
• Provide patient education on common mental health and substance abuse disorders, as well as available treatment options.
• Systematically track treatment response and monitor patients for changes in clinical symptoms, treatment side effects, or complications.
• With a supervising Psychiatrist, Physician, or Nurse Practitioner, support psychotropic medication management, including monitoring treatment adherence, side effects, and treatment effectiveness.
• Utilize evidence-based techniques evidence-based techniques such as behavioral activation, problem-solving treatment, and motivational interviewing to support behavioral interventions.
• Facilitate referrals to evidence-based psychosocial treatments as clinically indicated.
• Participate in caseload consultation with the psychiatric consultant to review treatment plans and make recommendations for patients who require adjustments.
• Track patient follow-up and clinical outcomes using a registry system or electronic health record.
• Coordinate referrals for clinically indicated services outside the organization, such as social services, vocational rehabilitation, or substance abuse treatment.
• Develop relapse prevention self-management plans with patients who have achieved their treatment goals and are ready for discharge from the caseload.
• Advise Diverge central team on areas for improvement in establishing processes related to behavioral health.

What you Bring 

• Minimum one (1) year of previous social work experience in behavioral health.
• Master’s degree in social work (MSW).
• Active, unrestricted License in Clinical Social Work Illinois.
• Training and/or experience in the Collaborative Care Model for integration of behavioral health in primary care.
• Experience with brief (short-term, solution oriented) therapy.
• Ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment and desire to build process in a start-up environment.
• Demonstrated success working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team providing patient support.
• Knowledge of social case management, conflict resolution, and team building practices.
• Adapts well to evolving technology including charting in an electronic record.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two (2) years of experience post master’s degree attainment.
• Care coordination experience in a managed care system, in-/outpatient setting, skilled nursing, or long-term care facility
• Fluency in Spanish

Personal Characteristics

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with providers, care team members, and other stakeholders in the care ecosystem.
• Equally empathetic and objective, humble and highly conscientious; a teammate that inspires and motivates others. 
• Comfort with uncertainty; self-motivated and directed; can manage effectively in high growth, rapidly evolving environments. 
• A problem solver, able to think critically and strategically while being hands on in driving work; proactively identifies and resolves risks to execution and delivery. 
• Strong representation of the company’s mission, vision, and values across all dimensions of internal and external interactions. 
• Strength in authentically connecting with people from all walks of life with empathy and humility.

Location: Remote with travel as needed within market.