IAT - WH Senior Clinical Social Worker

About the role

The Clinical Social Worker collaborates with Primary Care Providers and Collaborating Psychiatrist to provide comprehensive treatment and care management for behavioral health. Carries a caseload and routinely provides clinical interventions, completes validated assessments, offers psychoeducation, assist in treatment and diagnosis of behavioral health conditions.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a positive culture, clear and effective timely communication.
• Displays leadership qualities such as maintaining a positive culture, clear and effective timely communication.
• Understands and displays collaborative, positive, and ethical culture, is able to balance team and individual responsibilities and consistently provides support to team.
• Provides psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environments strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation.
• Collaborates with all members of the multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive mental health support for designated caseload.
• Makes sure the patient’s progress is monitored by using validated scales and clinical judgement; intervening as necessary and appropriate, to ensure that the plan of care and services provided are patient focused, high quality, efficient, and cost effective.
• Provides appropriate brief interventions, psychoeducation, direct care management to patients and families around issues related to the patient’s diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation.
• Meets with the patient and/or family to assess needs and develop an individualized care plan and to arrange resources to meet the individual’s needs in collaboration with the patient’s care team.
• Formulates, develops, and implements a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan utilizing appropriate clinical social work treatments and interventions.
• Works with the multidisciplinary team to assist with screening, identification, diagnosis, management and treatment of victims of abuse, neglect, and domestic violence, rape, etc.
• Provides consultative services to health care team members within scope of care definitions, as needed.
• Maintains a working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues that impact on patient care, e.g., advance directives, child and elder abuse.
• Works closely with Primary Care Provider and Collaborating Psychiatrist on identified patients to diagnose, treat and manages mental health and/or substance abuse problems in patients and family members.
• Documents assessment, plan, interactions, and interventions according to departmental, hospital and/or health system guidelines and standards.
• Keeps current with social work and health care developments and seeks to increase further enhancements of job related knowledge.
• Provides teaching and training for students, staff, and faculty from social work and other disciplines.
• Contributes to the academic mission of the medical center and health system by participating in academic activity, such as committees, conferences, publications, teaching and research.
• Exhibits professional behavior on a consistent basis.
• Attends and participates in staff, committee, department, and other administrative meetings.
• Effectively represents the organization in high-level meetings or presentations.
• Is able to clearly communicate strategic vision of department and organization.
• Obtains or has certifications specific to social work.
• Presents or engages in research, publications, presentations, or articles.
• Develops new process and procedures and ensures team members perform the same with consistency.
• Serves as subject matter expert for nearly all relevant workflows, programs and resources.
• Succeeds in leading committees, meetings, projects or problem solving scenarios.
• Proactively and consistently provides support to colleagues.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Masters degree in Social Work or related field. Must possess current license as required by state board where services will be provided: MD: Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Certified Social Worker –Clinical (LCSW-C) through the Maryland Board of Social Work OH: Licensed Social Worker (LSW) or Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) through the Ohio Board of Social Work PA: Licensed Social Worker (LSW) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Pennsylvania Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors WV: Licensed Graduate Social Worker (LGSW), Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW), or Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) through the West Virginia Board of Social Work
• Preferred Qualifications: Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) or Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) through the West Virginia Board of Social Work

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal communication and negotiation skills in interactions with patients, families, physicians, and health care team colleagues.
• Ability to work with people of all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds and be flexible, open minded, and adaptable to change.
• Ability to prioritize multiple work assignments and manage time efficiently.
• Ability to work effectively and autonomously in a self-directed role.
• Capable of independent judgment and action regarding psychosocial needs of patients.