Psychiatric Social Worker (New Hampshire)

The Psychiatric Social Worker provides mental health services and psychosocial support to individuals and families dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues.  They assess clients’ needs, develop treatment plans, and offer therapeutic interventions to help clients manage crisis and improve their overall well-being.  Additionally, they collaborate with other healthcare professionals to ensure comprehensive and coordinated care for their clients. International SOS Government Medical Services is recruiting Psychiatric Social Workers to support our medical staffing projects in New Hampshire. Psychiatric Social Workers may work in temporary, short-term, or long-term jobs. Recruited personnel might be working alongside our clients’ teams or as part of our own multidisciplinary teams, in secured federal facilities, medically remote locations, industrial projects, or our own clinics in long-term care or acute care facilities. Please apply in order to be added to our database and to be considered for current and future Psychiatric Social Worker positions. Our recruiters will get in touch with you to check your availability, readiness, interest in the job and to provide you with more details on our vacancies. Key Responsibilities: Conduct psychosocial assessments to determine clients’ mental health needs. Develop and implement individualized treatment plans in collaboration with healthcare teams. Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients, guardians, family members and significant others to assess, mobilize and access social, financial and residential resources needed to promote recovery.  Providing individual, family and group therapy on assigned cases and based on program needs with a willingness to apply a broad range of established therapeutic techniques. Ensuring on-going discussion upon issues with discharge, with treatment team, patients, guardians, families and significant others. Advocate for clients to ensure they receive appropriate resources and support. Coordinate with other health care providers to deliver comprehensive care. Offer crisis intervention services during psychiatric emergencies. Educate clients and families abut mental health conditions, treatment options, and available resources. Maintain accurate and confidential client records. Facilitate access to community resources and support services. Monitor and evaluate clients’ progress and adjust treatment plane as necessary. Supervising, assigning and carrying out NHH Transportation Services for patients to appointments. Initiating or overseeing the initiating of guardianship and/or involuntary commitment proceedings consistent with RSA 135 and 464-A, while ensuring congruency with the Social Work Code of Ethics. Adhering to all applicable laws and policies including The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), Health Care for All (HCFA), NHH policies and the Health Engagement Model (HEM). Monitoring other legal issues such as the status of probation or parole involvement, pending court hearings for criminal or civil actions, facilitating appropriate involvement of the patient in these proceedings and giving direct testimony at court hearings as appropriate. Providing support, modeling and assistance to other hospital staff to reinforce courteous interactions and clinically appropriate interventions with patients. Providing clinical analysis and recommendations at diagnostic and treatment review conferences as necessary. Assisting in covering social service needs throughout NHH as they arise.