Social Worker Emergency Department

Trinity Health•Grand Rapids, MI

23h•Onsite

About The Position

This is a Part Time Emergency Department Social Worker position. The role involves conducting psychosocial assessments of patients, families, and social systems, developing treatment goals, and empowering patients to overcome barriers to successful treatment. The social worker will provide brief, solution-focused counseling as needed, facilitate a plan of care to address psychosocial needs, act as a patient advocate, and provide referrals to community resources for continuity of care. This role is utilized in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The position requires working two 12-hour shifts per week, with one shift from 7a-7p and the other from 10a-10p, on a rotating schedule.

Requirements

Masters Degree in Social Work or related field from an accredited school
Eligible for licensure by the Michigan Board of Social Work as a Limited Licensed Master’s Social Worker (LLMSW) or Licensed Master’s Social Worker (LMSW)
One year social work experience in health care setting
Excellent psychosocial assessment skills.
Excellent knowledge and practice of psychosocial assessment skills, including social and emotional factors, counseling for long-range health planning and decision-making, community resource planning and/or short-term therapy, etc.
Recognizes problems, systematically gathers data, identifies/understands underlying issues, synthesizes complex issues, seeks input from others and makes difficult decisions to formulate appropriate treatment plans.
Excellent ability to support patients and families in crisis.
Demonstrates sound judgment, problem solving, patience, flexibility, and openness when interfacing with patients, families, and staff.
Strong interpersonal communication skills.
Displays active listening and empathetic communication skills with patients, families, and staff.
Engages and collaborates with patients, families, multi-disciplinary staff, and the community in care planning, delivery, and discharge.
Builds solid relationships, negotiates effectively, and works well with individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and socioeconomic positions.
Establishes and promotes collaborative relationships with members of the interdisciplinary treatment team.
Engages with the team to develop strengths-based plans that optimize patient success in the inpatient and outpatient setting.
Documentation is clear, concise, accurate, timely and outcome oriented.

Nice To Haves

2+ years of experience in an acute care or emergency department setting

Responsibilities

Conducts psychosocial assessment of patients, families, and social systems.
Develops treatment goals and empowers patients to remove barriers to successful treatment.
Provides brief, solution-focused counseling as needed.
Facilitates a plan of care to ensure the patient’s psychosocial needs are addressed.
Acts as patient advocate.
Provides referral to appropriate community resources to ensure continuity of care.
Analyzes patient and family situations requiring advanced advocacy with knowledge of community resources.
Documents assessment, plan, intervention(s), and outcome(s) in the medical record.
Completes department-specific productivity statistics.