When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
As an advanced level independent of regular clinical supervision and functions within the department or specific service area (inpatient or ambulatory) as a leader and mentor, providing guidance, consultation and supervision to social work staff. The Sr. Social Worker identifies opportunities and solutions for process and quality improvements. and facilitates and/or participates in department or hospital projects, work-groups or committees. Maintains a clinical caseload and is responsible for psychosocial screening, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for patients and families in assigned care area. Collaborates with physicians, nurses, internal and external case managers, other community agencies and providers, and other health care professionals to implement patient care across the continuum.
Job Description:
Essential Responsibilities:
1. Screens and triages patients who request service, are referred, or meet screening criteria. Conducts psychosocial assessments and provides indicated services including crisis intervention, short term counseling, psychotherapy and group services. Assists with discharge planning and/or outpatient continuity of care. Documents assessments and care plans in the medical record.
2. Provides consultation to team members and staff around patient management, bringing any risk management and ethical issues directly to the Social Work Manager. Offers constructive feedback and ideas to further learning and best practices.
3. Meets productivity standards and expectations as set by the leadership in Social Work and the assigned clinical area.
4. Demonstrates advanced organizational and systems thinking. This includes but is not limited to: Identification of practice and systems issues, development of new modes of approaching operational, systems and/or clinical problems.
5. Leads by example; Demonstrates leadership and is seen as a “team-player” within the social work department, service area, and in the Medical Center.
6. Capacity to inspire team engagement for example, approaches difficult conversations or situations with curiosity, striving to create solutions and goodwill between team members.
7. Volunteers to lead or take on segments of the team's work. Initiates and/or leads projects or work groups. Voices ideas and solutions; constructively participates in Departmental and interdisciplinary CQI activities. Provides clinical supervision for staff members as well as conducting a quarterly group-supervision and case consultation review session.
8. Demonstrates an adult learning style by seeking opportunities for continued growth and setting goals for one's own professional development. Assumes some regular responsibility for conducting seminars, primary supervision of social work staff and/or students; formal and informal interdisciplinary teaching and consultation.
9. Coordinates new staff orientation to ensure new employees are effectively welcomed, trained, and prepared for their roles for successful onboarding. Takes a lead role in the department's student intern program, supporting student supervisors and ensuring intern adjustment and onboarding.
Required Qualifications:
1. Master's degree in Social Work and an LICSW license required
2. At least 1-year post LICSW and at least 3 years of related work experience required, including staff training, supervision, and student intern experience.
3. Experience with computer systems required, including web-based applications and some Microsoft Office applications, which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, or SharePoint
Competencies:
Decision Making: Makes clinical decisions that are patient and family centered that are patient and family-centered and based on clinical best practices. Makes Decisions about complex clinical situations or ethical dilemmas that arise either in their own work or the work of junior staff or colleagues. Offers recommendations on issues affecting the department or functional areas. Problem Solving: Able to independently identify and address problems that impact clinical best practices, policies, and operational workflows
Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determine how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. The manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers. Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations. Teamwork: Functions as a consultant and mentor to others. Leads, projects or work groups. Creates a collaborative and respectful team environment and improved workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.
Age-based competencies
Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonates (under 1 month), Pediatric (1 month to 12 years), Adolescent (12-17 years), Adult (18-64 years), and Geriatric (over 65 years)
Physical Nature of the Job:
Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary, but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move throughout the hospital campus
Pay Range:
$86,528.00 USD – $111,924.80 USD
The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.
