Clinical Social Worker II

Job Summary :

The Clinical Social Worker II (CSW) provides comprehensive psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention and 5150 services, counseling, brief therapeutic interventions, consultation, education, outreach, community linkages, and facilitates the plan of care for patients with particular focus on high-risk populations.   Additionally the incumbent provides mental status examinations and diagnoses using the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM5-TR); consultation to a multi-disciplinary treatment team; acts as liaison to hospital and community resources; maintains client records according to California State Medi-Cal and San Francisco City and County requirements; record data as required by Department of Public Health, attends staff meetings and participates in training sessions and performs other duties as assigned. The incumbent demonstrates cultural sensitivity in working with patients regardless of race, gender identity, religious affiliation, cultural beliefs, sexual orientation, etc. The incumbent will practice within the scope of UCSF’s mission statement: Caring, Healing, Teaching, Discovering; and the values statement of UCSF’s Everyday PRIDE: Professionalism, Respect, Integrity, Diversity, Excellence. As employees of UCSF and contractors with the City of San Francisco/ Department of Public Health we are essential workers and will continue to support and provide direct service during a natural disaster and or pandemic, this includes deployment which can include a temporary change in duties.

Under the general supervision of the Clinical Supervisor, the Clinical Social Worker I/II works within the innovative Citywide Stabilization Program, which utilizes a proactive, client-centered approach to engage and treat adults with severe mental illness who are often dually diagnosed and unhoused. This program will be responsive to the needs of the Mental Health San Francisco (MHSF) initiative and will be fluid in service delivery based on the needs of the Behavioral Health Services under the Department of Public Health.  The CSW I/II works collaboratively with the behavioral health system of care to develop creative treatment strategies. The incumbents job duties may include but not limited to below:

Psychiatric Emergency Services, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital: The incumbent will provide consultation and support to staff at PES around appropriate resources for safe and effective discharge planning as well as care coordination and treatment referrals. The adults treated at PES are experiencing acute psychiatric crisis and/or substance use intoxication. 
Intensive Case Management:  The incumbent carries a caseload of high risk and vulnerable patients that are struggling to engage with necessary mental health care. The service delivery will include low threshold intensive case management, stabilization, and linkage to the appropriate level of care.
Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT): This team provides intensive case management to adults that are either court ordered to treatment or voluntarily agreed to treatment after meeting the legal threshold for AOT. These individuals require specialized treatment engagement. 
Community Assistance, Recovery, & Empowerment (CARE) Court Team: This team provides comprehensive intensive case management (ICM) to adults who are severely mentally ill and have a diagnosis in the schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder class who have entered into a Care Agreement to participate CARE Court.