u/GlitteringCrab54

I recently had an interview at a hospital and they said they don’t provide clinical hours towards gaining your LCSW. But part of me thinks they just aren’t understanding the question and are saying they don’t provide supervision towards LCSW. Which would be fine because my MSW internship supervisor said she can provide supervision to me. I’m not sure how to clarify with the hospital because every time I ask they say no we don’t have anyone to provide supervision (which is fine) but I’m not getting a clear answer if part of my 40 hours a week can count towards my 3,000 hours towards my LCSW.

Just wanted to ask if this is true that not all hospital medical social worker positions you can count hours towards your LCSW?

At least in my state the job title doesn’t matter, it depends on the job description if hours can be counted and from my understanding the role is the same as my internship. Which was at a different hospital and they were able to count 30 of their 40 hours towards the 3,000 hours for LCSW.

Also upset because if the job title says MSW but they’re going to say you can’t count hours towards a LCSW?? Make it make sense!!

Please ignore any typos

Hi!

I apologize if there are already posts like this in the subreddit. I just did a brief search and couldn’t find what I was looking for. I just graduated with my MSW and am considering going into school social work. Since I was an advanced standing student I didn’t get the opportunity to do the school social work program and for my BSW you basically had to know by the start of junior year if you wanted to do the SSW specialization.

Anyway I was hoping someone could provide more information about the process post MSW. I know I’ll have to take a few classes and (take an exam?). The part I need more information on is the internship hours. With doing my BSW and MSW internships unpaid I cannot do another year long internship that’s unpaid. I did hear that you can still get hired and paid and count those hours for internship. Could someone please provide more information about this? I’m in Chicago so how would I go about the whole process in order to be able to get hired and use those hours for my internship requirements while also getting paid.

Thank you!