Duke Primary Care

Duke Primary Care Duke Primary Care is a broad network of community-based clinics that offer family medicine, internal medicine, pediatric, and urgent care services. With 400 providers in nearly 50 locations, Duke Primary Care is the largest primary care network in the greater Triangle. Our network saw more than 750,000 patient encounters in fiscal year 2021.

Our Duke Primary Care clinics provide personalized care for adults and children, from sick visits to preventive care, health screenings to immunizations, and annual exams to chronic disease management. Select primary care clinics also provide behavioral health, diabetes education, pharmacy, and other population health services. Duke Primary Care clinics are accredited and designated a Primary Care Medical Home by The Joint Commission.

Our Duke Urgent Care centers offer evaluation and treatment for minor illnesses and injuries 12 hours a day, seven days a week when a patient’s primary care provider is not available. Services also include certain physical exams and vaccinations. A pediatric specialist is available at select locations. Patients can walk in to one of our nine urgent care centers located throughout the greater Triangle or can schedule a virtual visit to receive care from the comfort of home.

CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER - DUKE PRIMARY CARE SAGE ROAD PEDIATRICS/Internal Medicine 

Position will cover Peds and Internal Medicine at Sage Road. 

$5000.00 Commitment Bonus

Clinical Social Worker- Duke Primary Care

Occ Summary

Provide psychosocial assessments, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as discharge planning to and consultation about patients and families to assist them and the health care team in coping with patient's hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, treatment, and/or life situation, including emotional, mental, and substance abuse disorders. Function in a supervisory role as a team leader in addition to the duties and responsibilities of Level I. 

Work Performed Level I 
•   Provide psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.
•   Formulate, develop, and implement a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan utilizing appropriate clinical social work treatments and interventions.
•   Interventions may include crisis intervention, brief and long-term individual, marital, family and/or group therapies as well as grief and bereavement work.
•   Screen, identify, diagnose using DSM nomenclature, treat and manage mental health and/or substance abuse problems in patients and family members.
•    Provide training together health care professionals in same. 
•    May perform these functions independently or as part of a team.
•    Assist with screening, identification, diagnosis, management and treatment of victims of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, rape, etc. 
•    Provide training to other health care professionals in same.
•    May participate in on-call or after hours coverage.
•    Provide consultative services to health care team members within scope of care definitions as needed.
•    Maintain a working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues that impact on patient care, e.g., advance directives, child and elder abuse.
•    Provide education to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient 's diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation.
•   Participate in multi-disciplinary healthcare teams and provide leadership in representing clinical social work perspective/liaison with patient and family.
•   Provide teaching and training for students, staff, and faculty from social work and other disciplines.
•   Contribute to the academic mission of the medical center and health system by participating in academic activities such as committees, conferences, publications, teaching and research.
•    Maintain working knowledge of and liaison with community agencies and resources.
•    Arrange, procure, and coordinate patient/family pre and post hospital needs.
•    Knowledge of hospital, medical center and/or health system resources to access and provide for patient care needs.
•    Document assessment, plan, interactions, and interventions according to departmental, hospital and/or health system guidelines and standards.
•    Maintain records and statistics in accordance with department, hospital, medical center and/or health system policies.
•    Attend and participate in staff, committee, department, and other administrative
•    Participate in department, hospital, medical center, and/or health system continuous quality improvement 
•    Participate in regular supervisory conferences; keep current with social work and health care developments and seek to