CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER II
- Clinical Social Worker
APPROXIMATE ANNUAL SALARY -
$48,462.48 to
$72,223.92
PAY GRADE: 37
For more information on benefit and retirement programs, please see the sections below.
In order to receive consideration, applicants must indicate their availability for any work type, travel, and location requirements listed.
Clinical Social Workers provide clinical services to clients/inmates in a residential, home, inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, correctional or similar setting.
Incumbents possess a degree of knowledge and proficiency sufficient to perform work independently with little or no additional training.
This Clinical Social Worker 2 (CSW2) position is located in the Desert Willow Treatment Center, the only Nevada psychiatric inpatient hospital for children and adolescents. The duties of this position are significant for compliance with the Joint Commission, Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance, and Legislative Counsel Bureau regulatory entities. This position works directly with Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Psychiatric Nurses, Psychiatric Caseworkers, and Mental Health Technicians. This position is responsible for providing direct care services to patients; assisting with all admissions; conducting psychosocial and other assessments; providing individual, group, and family therapies; and determining continuing stay requirements in a hospital setting to include completing continuing stay authorization requests for Medicaid funding. As the child and family therapist, the CSW2 is a major contributor in multi-disciplinary Treatment Team meetings. The CSW2 determines service needs and therapeutic interventions, develops and reviews treatment plans and progress with the patient and parent/custodian, and ensures clinical aspects of discharge planning. The provision of these services is critical to patient care as it relates to ensuring comprehensive treatment with the focus on integrating the patient back into the community. Experience with children and adolescents preferred.
In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements:
Education and Experience (Minimum Qualifications)
Licensure as a Clinical Social Worker by the Board of Examiners for Social Workers.
Special Notes
Incumbents must obtain and maintain licensure or provisional licensure to engage in social work as a Clinical Social Worker or associate in social work in accordance with NRS Chapter 641B and the regulations adopted by the Board of Examiners for Social Workers.
Persons employed by a government agency on July 1, 1988 as a social worker, supervisor of social work or administrator of social work who were performing clinical social work duties, and who possess a license to practice as an associate in social work and who meet the experience requirements are eligible to compete in the selection process for this series.
Special Requirements
A valid driver's license is required at the time of appointment and as a condition of continuing employment.
Working evenings, weekends, and/or holidays is required.
A State of Nevada/FBI background check will be required of the selected applicant.
The Examination
Application Evaluation Exam
The exam will consist of an application evaluation. It is essential that applications include detailed information with time frames regarding education and experience. The most qualified applicants will be contacted by the hiring agency for interview. The hiring agency may require specific skills related testing as part of the interviewing process.
