Clinical Social Worker - Boston, United States - DPH-Shattuck Hospital

Description

The Lemuel Shattuck Hospital (LSH) is seeking a Clinical Social Worker (A/B).

The incumbent will provide clinical casework and consultative services to a complex community medical population as well as House of Correction (HOC) inmate patient population in accordance with the policies and procedures of Lemuel Shattuck Hospital (LSH), and Department of Correction (DOC) and Department of Public Health (DPH) as well as in accordance with ethics and standards of the staff member's discipline.

Formulate a treatment plan to enable patients to address their emotional and environmental stressors on a medical psychosocial basis.

Actively contribute to discharge planning and interdisciplinary team meetings, interagency conferences and collaborating with other public and private agencies in making expeditious referrals.

_Hours:
_ Monday-Friday 8:30-5PM with Saturday and Sunday Off

The nature of this job requires the incumbent to occasionally work flexible hours outside of the designated shift.


_ Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive):_

• Primary Clinician for an assigned caseload of community and/or HOC inmate medically complex inpatients throughout their hospitalization.
• Provide timely and accurate psychosocial assessments according to LSH and TJC standards.
• Develop and coordinate disposition plans in conjunction with community patient, their supports, and treatment team, taking into account developmental, racial, cultural and ethnic, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity issues that impact the patient's aftercare needs.
• Support patient discharge activities through identification of patient discharge options, linkage and referral of patients to aftercare resources and coordination with community providers.
• Provide timesensitive crisis intervention, safety crisis plans, and psychotherapeutic services to community and inmate patient populations.
• Complete timely & accurate documentation in the electronic medical record according to LSH, DOC, and TJC standards and policies.
• Gather and utilizes clinical data to aid in development of the ongoing psychosocial assessment and discharge planning process.
• Clinical documentation includes but is not limited to initial psychosocial assessments, patient contacts, response to treatment, discharge planning, SNF searches, crisis safety plans.
• Provide consultation and education to patient and their supports as appropriate to enhance patient's discharge.
• Serve as liaison between LSH and other public and private agencies and collaborates with community providers in the continuum of care as per TJC standards regarding discharge planning, guardianships, legal status, entitlements.
• Actively participates in regularly scheduled Rounds, Team meetings, case conferences, and department meetings.
• Participates in Social Work Addiction Department Performance Improvement activities.
• Continuously assesses and evaluates patient progress and revises treatment plan accordingly.
• Assume responsibility for own continuing education and professional growth of others.
• Contribute to the enhancement of the therapeutic milieu by facilitating psychoeducational groups to patients and/or their supports utilizing psychotherapeutic group techniques.
• Operate computer software programs effectively, particularly Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, in order to maintain records, data bases, and communications.

_Required Qualifications:
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• Thorough knowledge of and demonstrated ability in psychotherapy techniques: including diagnostic assessment and crisis interventions, individual, family and group work therapy.
• Understands the social, emotional, and experiential causes of social and psychiatric disorders.
• Experience with addiction, chronic illnesses, disabilities, and/or endof life care.
• Knowledge of community resources and how to access them for patient aftercare and discharge planning with the ability to initiate discharge planning upon admission.
• Develop and implement effective clinical interventions with a clinically complex, neurological, and physical challenging patient population.
• Ability to interpret and coordinate treatment plans among a variety of human service personnel and delivery systems.
• Can establish and maintain professional working relationships with others, and to establish rapport and interact with people who are under stress and to handle stressful and emergent situations.
• Utilize supervision effectively, i.e. the capacity for selfexamination with specific reference to how one's own behavior impacts upon patients and colleagues.
• Will exercise discretion in handling confidential information in compliance with hospital standards and HIPPA regulations.
• Communicates efficiently both verbally and in writing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of policies, procedures and regulations of the department and the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and how they impact the clinical soci