Social Worker

Summit Behavioral Healthcare is a 291-bed state-operated forensic psychiatric hospital providing inpatient mental health treatment and services to adults.

What you’ll do at DBH:

• Provide psychosocial interventions within the scope of practice, including individual, family, and group counseling.
• Ensures proper documentation to meet the requirements of federal, state, and local agencies, as well as accrediting bodies; completes and maintains records such as biopsychosocial assessments, admission/discharge summaries, aftercare plans, progress notes, referrals, and discharge/transitional documents.
• Develops and sustains collaborative relationships with external facilities, agencies, and support services (e.g., Social Security Administration, Medicaid, Medicare, Veterans Administration, public welfare) to facilitate referrals and ensure effective follow-up.
• Coordinates and implements continuity of care from hospital to community by serving as the link between the treatment team and the case management system through consistent collaboration, including meetings, phone calls, and written communication.

Requires current license as social worker (i.e., LSW) as issued by State of Ohio