PRN Unit Social Worker

Signet Health Corporation; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 63,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

MedStar Washington Hospital Center is seeking a PRN Unit Social Worker to provide direct clinical social work services within a multidisciplinary team. Core duties include psychosocial assessments, group facilitation, and collaborative treatment planning.

Responsibilities emphasize timely documentation and coordination with nursing units and referral sources. The role requires a DC LPC/LICSW/LGSW license and 2 years of adult inpatient psychiatric or substance use experience, with available

Qualifications

• 2 years’ experience in an adult inpatient psychiatric unit and/or substance use facility; experience facilitating patients' access to community resources and conducting therapeutic groups.
• Active DC LPC, LICSW, or LGSW license required.
• Current PRN rate of pay $46.62/hour with weekend differential of $7.00/hour.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct clinical social work services to patients and families as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Conducts psychosocial assessments and develops interdisciplinary treatment plans.
• Facilitates groups and marital/family therapies; participates in program development and reviews treatment plans.
• Maintains timely clinical documentation per regulatory requirements; effective communication with referrals and nursing/medical teams.

Skills

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Psychosocial assessment

Group facilitation

CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention)

BLS/CPR

Documentation

Education

LPC/LICSW/LGSW licensure (DC)

2 years inpatient psychiatric/substance use experience

Tools

Clinical documentation systems

Job description

Overview

The PRN Unit Social Workeris 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. Available shifts are 7 days a weeks and hours are 9:00am-5:30pm.

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.

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

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

• 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.

Requirements/Qualifications

Qualifications:

- 2 years’ experience in an adult Inpatient psychiatric unitand/orsubstance use facility and experience facilitating patients' access to community resources and conducting therapeutic groups.

- Must have an active District of Columbia LPC, LICSW, or LGSW

Compensation Information:

Current PRN Rate of Pay:$46.62/Hourly Rate with Additional Weekend differential of $7.00/ Hour.

EOE

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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.