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Schedule: Monday-Friday Day shift
This position primarily serves participants in PACE's East Region, including the Gresham and Glendoveer service areas. Services are provided across clinic, home, residential, and community settings.
The Mental Health Social Worker (LCSW) is a member of the interdisciplinary team (IDT) and provides behavioral health assessment, treatment, consultation, and care coordination for older adults enrolled in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). This position supports participants experiencing mental health concerns, emotional distress, adjustment challenges, serious mental illness, substance use concerns, cognitive impairment, and complex psychosocial needs.
Working collaboratively with participants, caregivers, community partners, and the IDT, the Mental Health Social Worker helps promote emotional well-being, behavioral health stability, independence, and quality of life while supporting participants to remain safely in the community whenever possible.
Required Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Social Work (MSW) from an accredited school of social work.
- Current Oregon Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) license.
- Minimum of two years of post-licensure clinical experience in mental health practice.
- Experience working with older adults or individuals with complex medical, behavioral health, or psychosocial needs.
- Strong assessment, counseling, crisis intervention, and care coordination skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in PACE, geriatrics, integrated care, primary care, or community-based healthcare settings.
- Experience working with dementia, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring conditions.
- Training in evidence-based behavioral health interventions.
Why Join Our Team?
As part of the PACE interdisciplinary team, the Mental Health Social Worker plays a vital role in supporting the emotional and behavioral health needs of older adults. This position offers the opportunity to provide meaningful, relationship-based care while working collaboratively to help participants maintain independence, dignity, and quality of life in their communities.
Providence Home and Community Care (HCC) is a service line within Providence with over 8,000 caregivers and 2,000 volunteers serving nearly 200,000 people a year, in their homes, in clinics and in a variety of congregate living ministries across our seven-state footprint.
HCC provides a full range of services and support for people of all ages, especially those facing chronic or life-limiting illnesses. Our core competencies include restorative care, longitudinal care and care through the end of life. Our service lines include assisted living/skilled nursing/rehabilitation, home health, home infusion/pharmacy services, home medical equipment, hospice and palliative care, Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), personal home services/private duty care and supportive housing.
Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.
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