Part-TIme Lincesed Clinical Social Worker

The Good Seed’s mission is to help youth not only live, but thrive! We provide supportive, nurturing, and specialized care for homeless or at-risk of homelessness Transition-Age Youth in California through supportive housing, job training, intensive case management services, and individual planning. Good Seed creates an environment where youth, ages 16-25, can thrive and grow to achieve their full potential. We strive to provide young people the necessary tools to realize their goals and set them on the path to living healthy and meaningful lives.

This is a flexible part-time position for 8-10 hours per week, and on call as needed. 

A Clinical Social worker professionally applies social work methods and theory to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of psycho social dysfunction, impairment, or disability, including mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders for families, individuals, groups, and organizations. The main responsibility of a clinical social worker at The Good Seed is to screen medical records, conduct interviews and assessments as needed, set treatment goals, and arrange for expediting and coordinating services. In addition, providing supervision and monitoring of interns and recent Master of Social Work graduates obtaining hours.

• Planning, managing, and providing social services;
• Diagnosing and providing treatment to individuals, specifically, Transition-Age Youth ages 16-25, with mental disorders, as well as various behavioral and emotional disturbances;
• Interviews persons seeking psychiatric assistance on an emergency basis and utilizes crisis intervention techniques to prevent hospitalization and to aid the person in dealing with the emotional crisis;
• Supervising and directing social work team members in the preparation of social histories and provision of social services within the staff’s level of competence;
• Maintaining liaison with area resources and coordinating social service activities;
• Provides psychotherapy to individuals, groups, families, and significant others;
• Develops a tentative CCCP designed to resolve or cope with the mental or emotional problem, which may include individual, group, family or marital counseling, case management, and/or referral to another treatment source such as a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a vocational or rehabilitation counselor, or another agency;
• Assessing and planning for the social requirements of individuals, groups, families, and organizations;
• Administering and supervising social service programs, providing assistance in developing social service programs and resources;
• Providing consultation on various social aspects of procedures, policies, and services to volunteers, medical staff, community groups, and clinic clients;
• Recognizing the role of client in the treatment planning;
• Participating in general department meetings, treatment team, and case supervision meetings;
• Complying with Good Seed policies; and understanding and agreeing to support the Good Seed Mission Statement.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.