Social Worker LCSW - Team Lead

Team Lead – Social Worker LCSW

Location: Arnett Hospital
Shift: Full-Time Day
 

Position Overview:

The Social Work Team Lead acts as a leader within the department, overseeing daily social work activities, providing functional guidance to team members, and ensuring high-quality service delivery. This role involves resolving issues, coaching, training, and educating staff to promote department excellence. The Team Lead collaborates effectively with a multidisciplinary team to facilitate safe, timely, and resourceful patient care, while also acting as a resource for students, interns, and social workers working toward their LCSW.

Key Responsibilities:

• Acts in a lead capacity and serves as liaison to the Social Work Manager or supervisor by overseeing daily social work activities

• Provides functional guidance, ongoing coaching, and resolves issues within the department to improve outcomes

• Trains and educates staff on various aspects of the department and social work role to achieve top quality results

• Participates in service delivery through effective collaboration with the healthcare team

• Communicates and collaborates with all members of the healthcare team to facilitate safe and timely patient services

• Interprets and communicates complex patient/family needs, role modeling caring practices to other caregivers

• Assesses patients' and families' psychosocial risk factors through evaluation of prior functioning levels, support systems, reactions to illness, and ability to cope

• Counsels patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial impacts of illness/disability

• Accesses and mobilizes family and community resources to meet identified needs

• Provides mental health assessments of patients upon physician referral

• Provides therapeutic intervention to facilitate complex discharge planning

• Serves as the point person in child abuse/neglect, adult/elderly abuse/neglect, institutional abuse, and domestic violence cases

• Acts as liaison between Indiana University Health and state and county child and adult protective teams

• Provides intervention in guardianship (temporary/permanent), foster care, adoption, and mental health Level II placements

• May provide specialized mental health services including crisis intervention, addiction assessments, and psychiatric referrals

• Assists with dangerous or potentially dangerous situations, taking a leadership stance in clinical intervention and de-escalation

• Supports those experiencing acute crises using de-escalation techniques to help prevent episodes of violence

• Utilizes effective interviewing principles with victims, perpetrators, families, and significant others

• Serves as a resource and role model for students, interns, LBSWs, and LSWs

• Participates with the clinical team in developing treatment plans for psychosocial issues and needs

• Consults with providers regarding mental health diagnoses and treatment options

• Develops educational resources for patients and families

• Acts as a preceptor, sharing knowledge to facilitate learning and professional development

• Provides clinical supervision for social workers working toward their LCSW

• Serves as a field instructor for students completing internships and practicums

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Education: Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) required

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years in child welfare, mental health and addictions, health, school, or community/organizational settings

• Licensure: Permanent Indiana LCSW required

• Certifications:

  • Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) or an alternative de-escalation training within 6 months of hire required

• Knowledge & Skills:

  • Evidence-based psychosocial assessment, short-term therapeutic counseling, crisis intervention for mental health and substance use disorders

  • Knowledge of disease processes and human behavior