CLINICAL COUNSELOR SOCIAL WORKER
Company: University of New Mexico - Hospitals
Location: Albuquerque
Posted on: June 26, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Description Sign-on Bonus and Relocation Assistance
available! Now hiring for provisional, Non – Clinical and Clinical
license! Minimum Offer $ 28.32/hr. Maximum Offer $ 42.48/hr.
Compensation Disclaimer Compensation for this role is based on a
number of factors, including but not limited to experience,
education, and other business and organizational considerations.
Department: Behavioral Health ED Crisis - SRMC FTE: 1.00 Full Time
Shift: Days Position Summary: The Behavioral Health Responder (BHR)
3 works with an interdisciplinary team to meet the needs of persons
whose lives are disrupted or complicated by mental illness,
behavioral disturbances, substance use issues, or the inability to
function or maintain in the community. The BHR 3 provides both
initial and ongoing assessment and care of clients in crisis in the
community, and collaborates with other team members to ensure
optimal, recovery-oriented care to both mental health and substance
using individuals through a variety of treatment services,
including but not limited to crisis assessment and management, as
well as daily clinical consultation with staff and clients. Serves
as a liaison partnering with families, community members, tribal
nations, schools, emergency services, and law enforcement providing
outreach and linking to resources for those in need. The BHR 3 will
be available to all Sandoval Regional Medical Center (SRMC)
services and will also partner with first-responders to address
community needs. This position is fast paced and mobile,
functioning from all settings with the UNM SRMC system and also in
the field with community partners. Ensure adherence to Hospitals
and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment
may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age
groups. Detailed responsibilities: * PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow
patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols * PATIENT
SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by
seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning
of current policies and processes * PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and
report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may
put a patient at undue risk * PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential
or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near
misses in a timely manner * PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients
to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and
reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may
"not seem right" * POLICIES AND PROCEDURES - Maintain established
departmental policies and procedures, objectives, and quality
assurance programs * PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Enhance
professional growth and development through participation in
educational programs, reading current literature, attending
in-services, meetings and workshops * EVALUATION - Provides
comprehensive emergency client evaluations whenever necessary, on
the hospital campus and in the community * INTERVENTION - Provides
de-escalation, brief interventions, crisis stabilization and case
management to community members; Provides in-person interventions,
telehealth, phone triage, and support to clients in need of crisis
and case management services * TEAM - Works as a team providing
mobile Crisis Now response to dispatches coming from 988 and
co-response dispatches with local law enforcement coming from 911
as needed to assist in the evaluation and management of clients in
crisis in the community; works as a team to also provide internal
crisis response at UNM SRMC when requested * MEETINGS - Attends
hospital huddles and uses daily management systems as well as
community meetings for proper coordination of care and team
communication * INTERVENTION - Provides in-person interventions,
telehealth, phone triage, and support to clients in need of
behavioral health intervention and follow up * DEVELOPMENT -
Develops and maintains recovery- oriented therapeutic relationships
with individuals in crisis through ongoing assessment and
stabilization efforts * COLLABORATE - Collaborates with
interdisciplinary team to develop person-centered, trauma informed,
strengths-based safety planning * REFERRAL - Makes referral
arrangements with emergency personnel or resources to provide next
step care for clients and families * ASSESSMENT - Assesses client’s
behavioral health and substance use status and provides
evidence-based intervention strategies * SUPPORT - Provides suicide
and risk assessment and abatement, intervention to include
Certificate for Evaluation as needed as part of the
interdisciplinary team * COLLABORATE - Collaborates with all
members of the multi-disciplinary team to coordinate care *
DOCUMENT - Documents all patient contacts, client compliance,
coordination of care, and other information in the electronic
health record system * OUTREACH - Provides community outreach and
education * ACCOMMODATE - Provides flexibility and accommodation as
needed * ASSESSMENT - Ability to provide rapid clinical
psychosocial assessments and treatment/management * COMPETENCY -
Demonstrates cultural sensitivity and competency in age specific
behaviors * RESOURCE - Serves as an information resource to
clinical team * COLLABORATE - Collaborates with peers/staff to
develop client treatment strategies and formulate diagnoses *
PARTICIPATION - Participates in job-related training sessions and
seminars * TRANSPORT - Transports and/or arranges for client
transportation as needed * BILLING - Ensures all documentation
requirements and billing procedures are completed and submitted in
a timely manner to ensure accurate and timely reimbursement of
agency services * COMPLIANCE - Ensures that all state, federal,
Joint Commission and other oversight regulations are strictly
adhered to * HIPPA - Ability to ensure the security and
confidentiality of client information and records in a manner
consistent with professional codes of ethics, and hospital policies
and procedures Qualifications Education: Essential: * Master's
Degree Education specialization: Essential: * Related Discipline
Experience: Essential: 3 years directly related experience
Nonessential: Credentials: Essential: * CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov
or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days * LCSW or LPCC or Marriage and Family
Therapist Physical Conditions: Heavy Work: Exerting 50 to 100
pounds of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force
frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move
objects or people. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of
those for Medium Work. Working conditions: Essential: * May be
credentialed by UNMH Credentialing Committee * May be required to
travel to various work sites * Sig Haz: Physical risk/injuries due
to combative patients * Sig Hazard: Chemicals, Bio Hazardous
Materials req PPE Department: Behavioral and Mental Health
Keywords: University of New Mexico - Hospitals, Albuquerque , CLINICAL COUNSELOR SOCIAL WORKER, Healthcare , Albuquerque, New Mexico
