Social Worker-MSW LCSW-PRN
About The Position
The PRN Social Worker provides face-to-face support to patients and families at North Hospital in Carmel, Indiana. The role delivers psychosocial and mental health assessments, crisis intervention, complex discharge planning, therapeutic interventions, and coordination of family and community resources. Working with the clinical team, the Social Worker helps develop treatment plans addressing psychosocial needs and consults with providers regarding mental health diagnoses. The role also serves as a resource and role model for students, interns, LBSWs, and LSWs. The Social Worker is the point person for abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and protective-services cases, and liaises with state and county child and adult protective teams. The role supports patients in acute crises using de-escalation techniques to promote safety, and provides intervention involving guardianship, foster care, adoption, mental health placements, and end-of-life care. Clinical activities are documented in the electronic medical record.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW).
- Permanent LCSW licensure in the State of Indiana.
- Certification in Crisis Prevention Intervention or alternative de-escalation training within 6 months of hire.
- Knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial assessment, short-term therapeutic counseling, and crisis intervention for common mental health and substance use disorders.
- Understanding of the disease process and human behavior in relation to health-related social needs.
- Strong complex discharge planning skills to ensure safe transitions to the next level of care.
- Knowledge of state and county adult and child protective legal mandates.
- Knowledge of growth and development principles across the lifespan, including end-of-life care.
- Ability to identify decision makers and coordinate goals-of-care conversations to provide excellent care and manage throughput.
- Ability to adapt services to geographically, culturally, and financially diverse populations.
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with hospital administrators, medical teams, law enforcement, APS/DCS, schools, probation, and community agencies.
- Computer literacy and proficiency in electronic medical record documentation.
Responsibilities
- Meet face-to-face with patients and families to provide psychosocial assessments and therapeutic interventions.
- 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 consult with other providers on mental health diagnoses.
- Communicate and collaborate with the health care team to support safe, timely care and ensure families have needed resources and education.
- Interpret and communicate complex patient and family needs and model caring practices for other caregivers.
- Assess psychosocial risk factors, including prior functioning, support systems, reactions to illness, and ability to cope.
- Counsel patients and families on the emotional, social, and financial impacts of illness or disability.
- Access and mobilize family and community resources to meet identified needs.
- Provide mental health assessments upon physician referral.
- Provide therapeutic intervention to facilitate complex discharge planning.
- Serve as the point person for child, adult, elderly, and institutional abuse or neglect cases, as well as domestic violence cases.
- Act as liaison between IU Health and state and county child and adult protective teams.
- Use crisis intervention and de-escalation principles and practices.
- Provide intervention in temporary or permanent guardianship, foster care, adoption, and mental health level II placements.
- Provide specialized mental health services, including crisis intervention, addiction assessments, and recommendations for psychiatric referral or community resources.
- Assist in dangerous and potentially dangerous situations, taking a leadership role in clinical intervention.
- Support patients in acute crisis and use de-escalation techniques to prevent physical violence.
- Apply effective interviewing principles with alleged victims, perpetrators, family members, and significant others.
- Provide intervention for end-of-life, guardianship, foster care, and adoption cases.
- Accurately document clinical activities in the electronic medical record.
