Overview

Meet face-to-face with patients and families. Assist in the development of educational materials for team members and patients and families. Serve as a resource and role model for students, interns, LBSWs, and LSWs. Participate with the clinical team on the development of treatment plans for patients to resolve psychosocial issues and meet psychosocial needs, including working as a consultant for other providers related to mental health diagnosis. Effectively communicate and collaborate with all members of the health care team to facilitate the episode of care so the patient receives services in a safe and timely manner, and the patient and family are provided all necessary resources and education. Interpret and communicate complex patient/family needs and role models caring practices to other caregivers. Assess patients' and families' psychosocial risk factors through evaluation of prior functioning levels, appropriateness and adequacy of support systems, reaction to illness, and ability to cope. Counsel patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial consequences of illness and/or disability; accesses and mobilizes family/community resources to meet identified needs. Provide mental health assessments of patients upon physician referral. Provide therapeutic intervention to facilitate complex discharge planning. Serve as the point person in child abuse/neglect, adult/elderly abuse/neglect, institutional abuse, and domestic violence. Serves as liaison between Indiana University Health and state and county child and adult protective teams. Will maintain principles and practices of crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques. Provide intervention in guardianship (temporary/permanent), foster care, adoption, and mental health level II placements. Provide specialized mental health services including, but not limited to, crisis intervention and addiction assessments and recommendations for psychiatric referral or community resources. Assist with dangerous and potentially dangerous situations and takes a leadership stance to provide clinical intervention. Supports those undergoing acute crisis which often results in the use of de-escalation techniques necessary to avoid episodes of physical violence. Utilize effective principles of interviewing alleged victims, perpetrators, family members, and significant others. Provide intervention for end-of-life, guardianship (temporary/permanent), foster care, adoption, etc.

• Master's Degree in Social Work required.
• Permanent LCSW licensure required.
• Certification in Crisis Prevention Intervention or an alternative de-escalation training within 6 months of hire.
• Requires knowledge of evidence-based psychosocial assessment, short-term therapeutic counseling, crisis intervention to patient and families for common mental health and substance use disorders.
• Requires knowledge of the disease process and human behavior in relation to health-related social needs.
• Requires complex discharge planning skills to provide safe discharge to the next level of care.
• Requires knowledge of state and county adult and child protective legal mandates.
• Requires knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span including care at the end of life.
• Requires the ability to identify decision makers, coordinate and execute goals of care conversations to provide excellent care and manage throughput.
• Requires experience adapting services to geographically, culturally, and financially diverse populations.
• Requires the ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with hospital administrators, medical teams, law enforcement, APS/DCS, schools, probation, and other community agencies as indicated.
• Requires computer literacy and proficiency in documentation in an electronic medical record.
• May be scheduled to work on-call and holiday rotation.