Social Worker-MSW LSW

IU Health • Roanoke, IN

11h • Onsite

About The Position

The Social Worker provides direct, face-to-face support to patients and families at Fort Wayne Hospital, partnering with the care team to ensure safe, timely, and well-coordinated episodes of care. The role assesses psychosocial risk, delivers therapeutic and crisis intervention, and guides complex discharge planning. The Social Worker is the organization’s primary point of contact for abuse, neglect, and domestic violence cases, liaises with state and county protective services, and provides specialized support related to guardianship, foster care, adoption, and end-of-life care.

The position is part-time with rotating shifts on Saturdays and Sundays.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Work.
• Permanent LSW licensure.
• Certification in Crisis Prevention Intervention or alternative de-escalation training within six months of hire.
• Knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial assessment, short-term therapeutic counseling, and crisis intervention for common mental health and substance abuse disorders.
• Knowledge of the disease process and human behavior in relation to health-related social needs.
• 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 across the lifespan, including end-of-life care.
• Ability to identify decision makers and coordinate and execute goals-of-care conversations to provide excellent care and manage throughput.
• Experience adapting services for geographically, culturally, and financially diverse populations.
• Ability to develop and maintain working relationships with hospital administrators, medical teams, law enforcement, APS/DCS, schools, probation, and other community agencies as indicated.
• Computer literacy and proficiency documenting in an electronic medical record.
• Ability to maintain and apply crisis intervention and de-escalation principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Meet face-to-face with patients and families to assess needs and coordinate care.
• Communicate and collaborate with the healthcare team to facilitate safe, timely care and ensure patients and families receive necessary 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 about the emotional, social, and financial consequences of illness or disability.
• Access and mobilize family and community resources to meet identified needs.
• Conduct 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 and domestic violence cases.
• Liaise between Indiana University Health and state and county child and adult protective teams.
• Provide intervention in temporary and permanent guardianship, foster care, adoption, and mental health level II placements.
• Provide specialized mental health services, including crisis intervention and addiction assessments, and recommend psychiatric referrals or community resources.
• Assist with dangerous and potentially dangerous situations and provide clinical intervention.
• Support people experiencing acute crisis, using de-escalation techniques to help avoid physical violence.
• Interview alleged victims, perpetrators, family members, and significant others using effective principles.
• Provide intervention for end-of-life care, guardianship, foster care, adoption, and other needs.
• Respond with or in place of the Department of Public Safety to de-escalate violence.

Benefits

• Access to learning and development opportunities, including advanced clinical training, leadership development, promotion opportunities, and cross-training development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level