Clinical Social Worker

Duke Careers•Mooresville, NC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Clinical Social Worker at Duke Health Lake Norman, you will provide comprehensive psychosocial assessments, diagnosis, and treatment, along with discharge planning and consultation for patients and families. Your role supports both the care team and those we serve in navigating hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, treatment, and overall life circumstances, including emotional, mental health, and substance use disorders. Duke Health Lake Norman Hospital is the smallest of the four Duke Health hospitals at 123-beds, offering a comprehensive range of medical services, including 24-hour emergency care, cardiology, orthopedics, women's services, and surgical specialties.

Requirements

Adherence to the practice standards and ethical guidelines of NASW and the NC Certification Board for Social Work.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
A solid knowledge of clinical social work practice.
Excellent assessment, interviewing, and counseling skills with expertise in mental health and substance abuse areas; familiar with psychopathology and with range of therapeutic interventions including psychopharmocotherapy; and if working independently, must know when to refer for further medical assessment.
Ability to work effectively and autonomously in a self directed role.
Highly collaborative with strong interpersonal and team building skills.
Ability to prioritize multiple work assignments and manage time efficiently.
Flexibility in accepting diverse work assignments and managing stress related to change.
Basic computer skills
Strong supervisory and leadership skills (Level II).
Ability to resolve/manage conflict (Level II).
Ability to help implement departmental, hospital and/or DUHS initiatives (Level II).
Master's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work.
Two year of post internship social work experience in a health care setting or social service agency.
Two years recent post master's experience in a clinical setting preferred.
Five years post master's experience in a health care or social service agency (Level II).
Experience in leadership and supervising (Level II).
Current licensure as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) by the NC Social Work Certification and Licensure Board.

Nice To Haves

Two years recent post master's experience in a clinical setting
Experience in leadership and supervising (Level II)

Responsibilities

Provide psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.
Formulate, develop, and implement a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan utilizing appropriate clinical social work treatments and interventions. Interventions may include crisis intervention, brief and long-term individual, marital, family and/or group therapies as well as grief and bereavement work.
Screen, identify, diagnose using DSM nomenclature, treat and manage mental health and/or substance abuse problems in patients and family members.
Provide training to other health care professionals in same.
May perform these functions independently or as part of a team.
Assist with screening, identification, diagnosis, management and treatment of victims of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, rape, etc.
Provide training to other health care professionals in same.
May participate in on-call or after hours coverage.
Provide consultative services to health care team members within scope of care definitions as needed.
Maintain a working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues that impact on patient care, e.g., advance directives, child and elder abuse.
Provide education to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient's diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation.
Participate in multi-disciplinary health care teams and provide leadership in representing clinical social work perspective/liaison with patient and family.
Provide teaching and training for students, staff, and faculty from social work and other disciplines.
Contribute to the academic mission of the medical center and health system by participating in academic activities such as committees, conferences, publications, teaching and research.
Maintain working knowledge of and liaison with community agencies and resources.
Arrange, procure, and coordinate patient/family pre and post hospital needs.
Knowledge of hospital, medical center and/or health system resources to access and provide for patient care needs.
Document assessment, plan, interactions, and interventions according to departmental, hospital and/or health system guidelines and standards.
Maintain records and statistics in accordance with department, hospital, medical center and/or health system policies.
Attend and participate in staff, committee, department, and other administrative meetings.
Participate in department, hospital, medical center, and/or health system continuous quality improvement efforts.
Participate in regular supervisory conferences; keep current with social work and health care developments and seek to increase further enhancement of job related knowledge.
Function in a supervisory role as a team leader (Level II).
Provide clinical and administrative supervision for social workers and clinical social workers on the team (Level II).
Lead team meetings and manage coverage (Level II).
Participate in hiring and performance management processes (Level II).