Medical Social Worker - 72 hr/pp - Bronson Family Medicine - Shaffer St., Kalamazoo

About the role

Team Bronson is compassionate, resilient, and strong. We are driven by Positivity which inspires us to be our best and to go above and beyond for our patients, for one another, and for our community.

Responsibilities

• Delivers social work services to all medical areas of the hospital to a variety of patient populations.
• Provides direct intervention with patients and families in areas such as mental health, suicide, domestic violence, sexual assault, child/adult abuse/neglect, death/grief, crisis intervention, advocacy, and substance abuse.
• Collaborates with other members of the patient care team including external agencies to assess each situation to determine the best course of action.
• Coordinates and manages systems and activities toward the end that referred patients are discharged in a timely manner to psychiatric facilities, substance abuse treatment, etc.
• Administers behavioral health screenings and conducts and arranges for more detailed assessments when indicated.
• Responds to crisis situations in the ambulatory setting.
• Identifies high-risk psychosocial needs of patients/families.
• Collaborates with patients, families, and the interdisciplinary team to ensure understanding of the impact the disease or illness has on the patient's mental and emotional health.
• Offers a range of brief, focused prevention, treatment and recovery services for patients with mild to moderate risk factors.
• Works effectively as part of the interdisciplinary health care teams.
• Provides culturally competent clinical services which are relevant to patients/families.
• Assesses the nature of the crisis and the immediate social/emotional needs and strengths of the patient and family in order to provide appropriate intervention.
• Performs appropriate screenings based on patient population and need.
• Identifies problems surrounding the crisis situation and may act as patient advocate to ameliorate such problems.
• Collaborates with other members of the patient care team to understand each situation from different perspectives and recommends or provides immediate treatment and solution focused interventions.
• Works effectively as part of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, collaborating and communicating regularly with the team and other members on cases and as issues arise.
• Identifies the need for, develops plan of care and makes referrals to community agencies and other healthcare specialists and plans to ensure the appropriate follow-up treatment and support is available and provided for after leaving the department.
• Thoroughly documents each case and enters appropriate information into the patient’s medical record.
• Participates in the development of departmental policies, procedures and protocols.
• Identifies and provides for learning needs of patients, families, and healthcare co-workers.
• Assumes responsibility for professional development.
• Develops and supports a positive work climate and the overall team effort of the department.
• Mentors and supervises students.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Work and Licensed Master’s Social Work (LMSW) or Limited License Master’s Social Work (LLMSW) in good standing OR Master’s Degree in Psychology or Counseling Psychology and Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Limited License Professional Counselor (LLPC) or License Psychologist (LP) or Limited License Psychologist (LLP).
• Experience in healthcare or mental health, preferred.
• Current driver's license in the state of Michigan and proof of insurance required for BAH.
• Basic Word Processing Skills.
• Demonstrates excellent human relation skills including verbal and written communication, problem solving, advocacy, assertiveness and empathy skills.
• Has a customer service orientation.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, as a demonstration of the function of effective process and relationships with the patient and members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Regularly utilizes effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills as needed.

Skills

• Excellent human relation skills including verbal and written communication, problem solving, advocacy, assertiveness and empathy skills.
• Customer service orientation.
• Clear and effective communication, both verbally and in writing.
• Effective interviewing, problem-solving and critical thinking.
• Negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to communicate with internal and external customers.
• Ability to document cases and enter information into the patient’s medical record.
• Ability to develop and support a positive work climate and mentor and supervise students.

Benefits

Commensurate with experience.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD