LEAD SOCIAL WORKER

Universal Hospital Services Inc.; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Universal Health Services seeks a Social Services Lead for Metropolitan Behavioral Health, a UHS facility in Dearborn. The role reports to the Director of Clinical Services and oversees psychosocial assessment, treatment planning, and discharge coordination across units.

The position requires a MSW and LMSW/LLMSW licensure with prior behavioral health experience. It is a full-time role with responsibilities across audits, team scheduling, and staff onboarding within the hospital setting.

Qualifications

• MSW required.
• LLMSW or LMSW licensure required.
• Previous behavioral health experience required.

Responsibilities

• Assists with maintaining daily Assessments Audit and master Treatment Plan.
• Assists with scheduling treatment teams and ensuring audit reflects teams held.
• Supports discharge planning, pre-admits, and effective workflow for discharges.
• Backs up the Director of Clinical Services in their absence.
• Participates in New Hire Orientation for new staff when needed.
• Ensure utilization management requests are completed in the chart on time.

Education

MSW

LLMSW or LMSW licensure

Job description

Responsibilities

Lead Social Worker

Full-Time

Metropolitan Behavioral Health (a UHS Facility)

A growing 144-bed behavioral health facility – Metropolitan Behavioral Hospital provides a full continuum of inpatient services across the entire patient population, including specialty programs to serve adolescents, adults and older adults, and perform behavioral health assessments 24 hours a day. Additionally, programs for co-occurring behavioral health and substance use issues are offered to meet the unique needs of this patient population. The facility provides a robust outpatient program utilizing a combination of group, family and individual therapy.

For more information, please visit our website: https://metropolitanbh.com

Position Summary

The Social Services Lead position reports to the Director of Clinical Services, and will assist with the following responsibilities:

• Assists with maintaining the daily Assessments Audit, including monitoring the addition of new patients, ensuring timeliness of the Psychosocial Assessment & the Master Treatment Plan, and ensuring timeliness and completion of collateral contacts
• As needed, the Lead will assist with scheduling treatment teams for each unit, and ensuring the audit is updated to reflect master and updated treatment teams were held for respective patients.
• Assists with ensuring a timely and effective workflow with discharges, discharge planning, and pre-admits.
• Will back up the Director of Clinical services in their absence, ensuring assignments, groups, and discharges are completed as needed.
• Will assist in completing New Hire Orientation for new staff in the event the DSC is not able to.
• Assists with ensuring all utilization management request are completed in the chart in a timely manner.

These duties will fluctuate as needed, and additional responsibilities may be added as appropriate, based on the needs of the hospital, individual units, and staff.

Benefit Highlights

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: uhsguest.com

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance, growing since its inception into a Fortune 500 corporation. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has 99,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates 28 acute care hospitals, 331 behavioral health facilities, 60 outpatient and other facilities in 39 U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Education: MSW required

Licensure: LLMSW or LMSW

Experience: previous behavioral health experience required

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.