MSW|SOCIAL WORKER

UHS•Spokane, WA

7h•Onsite

About The Position

Inland Northwest Behavioral Health, a collaboration between Universal Health Services and Providence Health Services, is the first free-standing mental health hospital in Spokane, Washington. This 100-bed facility, located near the Sacred Heart Medical Campus, features a dining room, gym, activity rooms, outdoor courtyards, and administrative spaces. Its x-shaped design centralizes staff and separates patient beds into four 25-bed wings, with three units for adults (18+) and one for adolescents (13-17). The hospital aims to provide a "home-like environment" to promote a holistic, patient-centered approach to mental health, integrating architecture, artwork, and landscaping to create a safe, encouraging, and aesthetically pleasing healing space. The Social Worker provides social services to assist patients in meeting psychosocial needs, enabling them to achieve optimal emotional health through therapeutic skills. This includes treatment planning facilitation, psycho-social assessment, psycho-education, short-term supportive family and individual therapy, group therapy, and discharge planning, utilizing evidence-based practice and liaison with community resources. All employees are expected to be pleasant, respectful, and courteous in all interactions.

Requirements

Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in mental health field.
Agency Affiliate minimum licensure required.
Current BLS, First Aid, Handle with Care, and Verbal De-Escalation certification.

Nice To Haves

MSW
Preferred three (3) years, post-Master’s experience in a psychiatric health care setting.
Current Washington State Associate Social Work or Associate Mental Health Counselor license.

Responsibilities

Assess and identify psychosocial, educational, developmental and behavioral functioning.
Facilitate 1:1 sessions with all patients assigned.
Assess and identify services needed by the client/family.
Document assessment update when there are significant changes in client’s condition.
Consult with families on emotional, social and financial aspects of care.
Participate in development and implementation of a system that ensures that individual patients and their families are involved in the development of individualized treatment plans.
Ensure interdisciplinary treatment planning is organized with participation of all appropriate clinical disciplines.
Make certain that the treatment plan has specific measurable goals, objectives and interventions defining actions unique to each patient’s needs in social work areas.
Ensure that revisions and updates occur on the treatment plan when goals/objectives are met.
Ensuring all Releases of Information (ROI) are complete.
Facilitate family meeting for all patients assigned
Evaluate and document effectiveness of interventions and client responses.
Formulate and conduct educational, therapeutic and /or support groups.
Involves family and support persons in the treatment planning process as applicable.