Upvote
Downvote
Social Worker MSW
Share Job
- Suggest Revision
Full-time
- The Behavioral Health Social Worker MSW plays a pivotal role in carrying out the mission of the organization providing high quality care including treatment planning, discharge planning, and utilization review to patients hospitalized on the mental health unit.
- Behavioral Health MSW works closely with other professionals (i.e., nursing, counselling staff, occupational therapy, psychiatry, psychology) Communicates teamwork, caring, and compassion with all internal and external healthcare team members.
- Provide social work intervention as it relates to hospitalization including crisis management, mental health and suicide resources, health care decision-making, illness, ethical/legal concerns, discharge planning, and transitional care needs abuse, domestic violence, capacity, financial problems, compliance issues, as well as other psychosocial barriers to maximizing health status.
- Mandatory nonviolent crisis intervention and physical management training (CPI) within 90 days of hire and annually thereafter.
- Training and experience, and/or demonstrated competency in casework principles, including diagnosis, assessment, crisis intervention, treatment and transition planning; techniques in motivational interviewing and short-term, solution-focused therapy; awareness of community resources, public assistance and entitlement programs, ensuring transition to appropriate levels of care; and issues relating to age and stage of development, special needs and cultural patterns of patient population served.
Active Job
Updated 30 days agoSimilar Job
Relevance
Active