Dec 20, 2024
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Job Description
Overview:
Under the general supervision of the Supervisor, Social Worker will provide behavioral health assessment, intervention, and consultation to individuals and/or groups identified as having behavioral health needs; plans treatment modalities, coordinates and follows treatment plans. Will provide crisis evaluation and intervention as needed. The QBHP is recognized as a Qualified Mental Health Professional under Medicaid Community-Based Mental Health Services Rule 140.The Social Worker provides professional services to Pediatric Specialty clients and their families in order to meet identified psychosocial, emotional, financial and environmental needs. The social worker provides psychosocial assessments, supportive counseling, emergent crisis intervention appropriate to setting, financial resource information, environment enhancements, advance directive planning and referrals to community agencies for clients and their caregivers/families. Using an interdisciplinary team approach, the social worker ensures clear communication and helps to facilitate care transitions. The social worker identifies and implements interventions at the individual and systemic levels and provides expertise to high-risk clients across the continuum. The social worker works collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team to support the RN performing at the highest level of their license in addition to maximizing the social worker's specialized training to address complex cases. Social Services are provided as part of a collaboration with interdisciplinary teams in adherence to policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards of the Carle Health System.
Responsibilities:
Involves client and family in case planning decisions.
Provides social work intervention to Pediatric Specialty clients and their families
Helps to facilitate care transitions, referrals to social services, and other specialists when needed.
Keeps the manager/supervisor informed of problematic cases, especially those involving legal or risk management issues.
Provides assistance and advocacy to clients in obtaining financial resources and government entitlements.
Develops and maintains tracking system of social services referrals /outcomes.
Assists in completion of FMLA paperwork
Responds to referrals from healthcare team members to identify available services for case specific needs.
Documents all client interactions, significant observations, interventions, and actions taken in the client's medical record in an appropriate and timely manner.
Formulates, develops, and implements a plan utilizing appropriate social work interventions. Provides education and counseling to clients and families around issues related to adaptation to the client's illness and/or life situation. May utilize crisis intervention, brief and long-term individual, group, and family therapies.
Facilitates education/training modules to assist RN staff managing basic social work needs.
Develops and maintains community relationships to support client referrals.
Assesses physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental needs of clients and their families.
Assists clients and their families in establishing goals and outcomes through therapeutic relationships by providing education, support, and referral resources.
Meets clinical productivity standards and compliance standards for all documentation and clinical charts
Qualifications:
License/Certifications:
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
Education:
Master's Degree: Social Work; Master's Degree: Psychology; Master's Degree: Counseling; Master's Degree: Related Field
Other Knowledge/Skills: