Social Worker Lead - Behavioral Health Hub

The Lead Social Worker (SW) works within the context of the Central Florida Behavioral Health Hub (CFL-BHH), from a team approach, to coordinate clinical activities pertaining to the successful operation of the hub. The Lead SW serves as a team Lead in coordinating services with the interdisciplinary team and community agencies to ensure appropriate patient care across the healthcare continuum. The Lead SW provides clinical supervision to social workers in the CFL-BHH. The Lead SW provides expert social work evaluation and treatment services to patients and families with complex psychosocial needs independently and demonstrates commitment to a patient and family-centered model of care.

The Lead Social Worker will perform the essential functions listed below as well as serve as a resource for Social Work and Mental Health colleagues with Nemours system navigation and clinical decision making related to patient and family clinical care.

Clinical Care

1. Manage complex assessments of the patient / family’s bio-psychosocial situation and establishes goals and periodically re-assesses the pt/family situation. Documents a complete psychosocial assessment/history of patients and families.
2. Provide crisis intervention services, therapeutic / goal directed counseling for patients and their families while assisting them with emotional, personal, psychological, socioeconomic factors, and adjustment to illness issues, to include the entire spectrum from diagnosis throughout the treatment course.
3. Attend CFL-BHH meetings in accordance with team expectations.
4. Establish and maintain effective working relationships across disciplines.
5. Participate in the interdisciplinary assessment and treatment of patients and their families when needed.
6. Provide consultation for physicians and other members of the health care team to determine current psychosocial needs.
7. Document social work notes in the patient medical record within the guidelines of the department policy.
8. Keep appraised of community resources and provide resource specific information to the assessed needs.

 

Lead responsibilities:

1. Manage clinic schedules for self and other social work team members. Secure clinic coverage and provide backup coverage when needed.
2. Provide oversight CFL-BHH Client Tracking Database (REDCap) including training staff, monitor utilization, tracking changes per DOH additions/changes of variables, and supervising/assisting care coordinator in data extraction and formatting for DOH reporting.
3. Serve as a consultant to other team members for complex cases.
4. Attend CFL-BHH meetings, DOH Florida Pediatric Behavioral Health Collaborative meetings and all meetings that pertain to furthering the work of CFL-BHH when needed.
5. Coordinate and facilitate / co-facilitate regular clinical team meetings with BHH social workers (therapists and care coordinators) to discuss topics relevant to clinical care and CFL-BHH.
6. Manage team relationships and needs for counseling or mentorship.
7. Help track Performance Management goals for the team.
8. Attend weekly leadership meetings.
9. Assist project administrator in developing and maintaining relationships with pediatric providers, mental, emotional, behavioral, developmental providers and other community agencies, which provide services to families and children, on behalf of CFL-BHH.
10. Provide mentorship to clinical staff and social interns.

Qualifications: 

• Masters degree in Social Work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
• LCSW Required
• Graduate school internship may be applied to the job-related experience at the discretion of the Senior Director.

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

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