Unit Social Worker

Overview

The Unit Social Worker is responsible for providing direct clinical social work services to patients and their families as a part of the multidisciplinary team with most emphasis on completing Psychosocial Assessments, conducting groups, facilitating marital and/or family therapies, assisting in program development and developing, implementing, and reviewing Treatment Plans.

Major Duties and Essential Functions:

• Maintains contact with nursing homes, medical-surgical units and other facilities and agencies to promote the program and to provide education regarding services available for their patients.

• Provides ongoing communications with referral sources concerning the status of patients referred into the program.

• Participates in agency-wide training programs and in-services.

• Provides quality and timely clinical documentation, per Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies’ requirements.

• Proficiency in interpersonal communication and interdisciplinary teamwork.

• Experience and skill in treating patients with various types and presentations of psychiatric/behavioral health disorders.

• Proficiency in conducting psychosocial assessments.

• Proficiency in developing interdisciplinary treatment plans.

• Must be flexible to adjust to the needs of a fast-paced environment.

• Demonstrate effective problem-solving skills.

• Display proficient oral/written communication skills.

• Strong preference given to candidates with LICSW, LPC or be eligible for endorsement and LGSWs with experience.

Signet Health Offers a Wide range of Benefits for its Employees:

• • Health Insurance - variety of plans
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • AD & D Insurance
  • Hospital Indemnity Insurance
  • Critical Illness Insurance
  • HSA
  • FSA
  • Employee Assistance (EAP)
  • Disability Insurance
  • Generous PTO plus Holidays

Requirements/Qualifications

Qualifications:

• 2 years’ experience in an adult Inpatient psychiatric unit and/or substance use facility and experience facilitating patients' access to community resources and conducting therapeutic groups.

• This position adheres to all rules and regulations set forth by all applicable licensing and regulatory bodies, Signet Health policies and procedures, as well as MWHC (Medstar Washington Hospital Center) policies.

• Must have an active DC LGPC, LPC, LICSW, or LGSW

• Required to maintain an active annual CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention) certification.

• Required to maintain an active biannual Basic Life Support Certification (BLS/CPR).

Salary Range: $77,482-$94,700

Salary based on Experience

EOE

Hospital/Program Description

For more than a half a century, MedStar Washington Hospital Center has set the highest standard for health care—and reached and surpassed it year after year.

MedStar Washington Hospital Center is a not-for-profit, 926-bed academic medical center in the center of the nation’s capital—and every day, hundreds of people in the region depend on us for their care. In 2013 alone, the hospital opened its door for nearly 500,000 inpatient and outpatient visits by residents from throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

We are the busiest and largest hospital in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area—and serve as referral center and the central hub for the region’s most advanced acute medical care.

But we are much more. Our primary and secondary health services help our community’s residents get and stay healthy, and help to improve patients’ quality of life by managing chronic illness.

Our inpatient services, education and research programs, outpatient care and community outreach initiatives are all aimed at meeting today’s health care needs—and at leading the way to meet the future health needs of the nation.