Social Worker-MSW LCSW-PRN

About the Role

The Social Worker provides face-to-face support to patients and families, addressing psychosocial issues and collaborating on treatment planning. This role involves developing educational materials, mentoring students and interns, and working with the clinical team to meet patients' psychosocial needs. Responsibilities include evaluating complex psychosocial factors, providing counseling, facilitating safe discharge planning, and serving as a liaison for abuse/neglect cases and crisis intervention.

Responsibilities

• Meet face-to-face with patients and families to provide psychosocial assessment and support.
• Assist in developing educational materials for team members, patients, and families.
• Serve as a resource and role model for students, interns, LBSWs, and LSWs.
• Collaborate with the clinical team to develop treatment plans addressing psychosocial issues and diagnoses.
• Communicate and coordinate with healthcare team members to ensure safe, timely, and resourceful patient care.
• Interpret and communicate complex patient and family needs, modeling caring practices.
• Assess psychosocial risk factors, including prior functioning, support systems, reactions to illness, and coping mechanisms.
• Counsel patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial impacts of illness/disability.
• Access and mobilize community and family resources to meet patient needs.
• Provide mental health assessments based on physician referral.
• Support complex discharge planning to ensure safe transition to the next level of care.
• Serve as a point person for abuse/neglect, domestic violence, and institutional abuse cases; coordinate with protective services.
• Lead crisis intervention and de-escalation efforts, supporting patients in acute crises and potentially dangerous situations.
• Utilize effective interviewing techniques with victims, perpetrators, families, and significant others.
• Provide intervention in guardianship, foster care, adoption, and mental health placements.
• Offer specialized mental health services, including crisis intervention, addiction assessments, and psychiatric referrals.
• Support end-of-life care, guardianship, foster care, and related services.
• Maintain principles and practices of crisis intervention and de-escalation.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with hospital administrators, medical teams, law enforcement, APS/DCS, schools, probation, and community agencies.
• Complete documentation accurately within electronic medical records.
• May be scheduled for on-call and holiday rotations.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Work required.
• Permanent licensure as an LCSW in Indiana required.
• Certification in Crisis Prevention Intervention or equivalent de-escalation training required within 6 months of hire.
• Knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial assessment, short-term therapeutic counseling, and crisis intervention for mental health and substance use disorders.
• Understanding of disease processes and human behavior related to health social needs.
• Skilled in complex discharge planning to ensure safe patient transitions.
• Knowledge of legal mandates for child and adult protective services at the state and county levels.
• Understanding of growth, development, and end-of-life care principles.
• Ability to identify decision-makers and coordinate goals-of-care conversations.
• Experience adapting services to geographically, culturally, and financially diverse populations.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with hospital staff, law enforcement, social services, schools, and community organizations.
• Computer literacy and proficiency in electronic medical record documentation.
• Flexibility to work on-call and holiday rotations as scheduled.

About IU Health

IU Health is Indiana’s largest and most comprehensive healthcare system, with nearly 40,000 team members, 16 hospitals, and $8.64 billion in operating revenue. Our programs in cancer, cardiovascular, neuroscience, orthopedics, pediatrics, and transplants are nationally recognized. In partnership with the Indiana University School of Medicine, IU Health combines research, education, and clinical excellence to improve health outcomes for Indiana communities. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, national origin, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the application process, job performance, and access to benefits.

Location: Riley Hospital | Shift: PRN (As Needed)