Baptist Health Brookwood Hospital

Position Summary
Works with patients to promote optimum mental and emotional health.

Essential Functions
• Develops comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and clinical impressionsresponsive to age-appropriate patients/family’s needs
and concerns.
• Provides differential diagnosis of mental/emotional disorders using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
• Diagnoses biopsychosocial functioning, disability, and impairment for the age-appropriate patients/families.
• Develops treatment intervention plans with clinical impressions. The plan is diagnostically driven and outcomes-focused with the
patient/family and healthcare team.
• Develops an effective working relationship with patients/families to engage, collaborate, advocate, and problem-solve in order to
support and enhance their mental health strengths and functioning ability.
• Utilizes differential diagnostic skills and employs various clinical treatment interventions, included but are not limited to crisis
intervention, solution focused therapy, individual, couples, family and group psychotherapy, grief and bereavement counseling, play
therapy, sand tray therapy, EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mentalstatus exams.
• Initiates Baker Act.
• Facilitates Marchman Act when appropriate.
• Facilitates patient’s psychosocial adjustment along the continuum of care and transition to the next level of care.
• Provides mental health education, information, consultation, and professional support regarding patient/family needs to the
healthcare team members and colleagues within the department.
• Demonstratesinitiative and leadership in developing mental health servicesthatrespond to patient care demands.
• Identifies practice based on continuous quality improvement.
• Maintains an up-to-date, accurate, and appropriate record of mental health activities in patients’ medical chart, which does not
violate confidentiality.
• Meets department/hospital expectations of growth goalsset forth by coaching plans.
• Performsindependently and provides clinical practice in a health care setting.
• Supervises and participatesin teaching within the department, hospital, and community.
• When appropriate forthe clinicalsetting, hassubspecialty credentialing (i.e.,sexual abuse, EMDR, CAP, CBT).
• Coordinates care and related functions appropriate forthe patient population.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state
and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
Other Related Functions
• Maintains and enhances knowledge of human growth and development ofthe neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric
populationsthrough educational opportunities and meets expectationsset forth by hospital and departmentalstandards.
• Pursues opportunitiesfor obtaining continuing education asset by department policy.
• Participatesin strengthening the community through local,regional,state, or national activities

Education/Training
Master’s degree.
Licensure/Certification
• Maintains Alabama state licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
• Handle with Care (HWC) Certification required for Behavioral Health Unit.

Experience
Two (2) years of direct clinical experience, preferably in a health ormental health setting, with an emphasis on the population to be served
in the assigned area.