Overview

• Collaborate effectively with all members of the healthcare team to ensure safe and timely patient care.
• Interpret and communicate complex patient/family needs; model caring practices to colleagues.
• Assess patients' and families' psychosocial needs, prior functioning, support systems, and reactions to illness.
• Counsel patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial impacts of illness/disability.
• Access and mobilize community and family resources to meet patient needs.
• Conduct mental health assessments upon physician referral and provide therapeutic interventions.
• Serve as the point person for cases of child abuse/neglect, adult/elderly abuse/neglect, institutional abuse, and domestic violence.
• Liaise with protective services, guardianship, foster care, adoption, and mental health placement agencies.
• Support complex discharge planning and crisis intervention as needed.
• Maintain strong relationships with community resources, law enforcement, schools, and other agencies.

• Education:
  • Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) required.
• Licensure:
  • Permanent LSW licensure required.
  • LCSW licensure preferred.
  • Temporary LSW license considered with full licensure expected within the first year of employment.
• Experience & Knowledge:
  • 0-3 years of relevant healthcare, mental health, or community-based experience required.
  • Knowledge of disease impact, human behavior, and legal mandates related to protective services.
  • Skills in crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques.
  • Strong interpersonal and community relationship-building skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word.
• Additional:
  • De-escalation certification preferred.