Ambulatory Clinical Social Worker: Pediatric Primary Care and Adolescent Clinics
VCU Health · Richmond, VA · 1 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
About the role
The purpose of the Clinical Social Worker 3 (MSW) position is to provide both direct patient care to patients and families and assist in the coordination of team delivered services.
Responsibilities
- Complete a psychosocial assessment
- Develop treatment plans that are congruent with the overall health care plan
- Provide psychosocial intervention
- Educate patients, their family members, staff and social work students
- Facilitate compliance with treatment
- Work with the community to provide needed services
- Coordinate discharge planning activities
Requirements
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of Virginia preferred
- Minimum of three (3) years of clinical social work experience with at least one (1) year in a specialty practice area preferred
- Master of Social Work Degree from a Council on Social Work Education accredited program required
Qualifications
- N/A
Skills
- Initiate patient/family intervention based on self-assessment of service need(s)
- Initiate community/facility referrals based on identified patient/family needs
- Initiate consultation with facility staff regarding psychosocial patient/family needs
- Contact the appropriate Social Services Department to report suspected abuse/neglect/exploitation cases
- Develop intervention plans and related interventions with patients/families/significant others
- Initiate education activities with and for facility staff
- Contribute to quality improvement activities through self-analysis of services and needs
- Participate in service area meetings, training, and patient care conferences
- Supervise social work students on a voluntary basis (depending on unit assignment may supervise other Masters and Doctoral Degree students from other disciplines)
Benefits
- May be required to work alternate schedules, weekends and/or holidays, and take call
- May be required to work alternate unit assignments, including at other clinical locations
Pay
N/A
Schedule
N/A