Clinical Social Worker- General Pediatrics, Inpatient LCSW Required

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About Duke University Hospital

 

Pursue your passion for caring with Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, which is consistently ranked among the best in the United States and is the number one hospital in North Carolina, according to U.S. News and World Report for 2023-2024. Duke University Hospital is the largest of Duke Health's three hospitals and features 1048 patient beds, 65 operating rooms, as well as comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center, an endo-surgery center, and more.

External Candidates eligible for a $5000.00 Commitment Bonus paid over 1 year

Full NC LCSW required for position

 

The Duke Child and Adolescent Gender Care Clinic has been providing comprehensive, compassionate, patient-centered healthcare to transgender and gender diverse children and youth since 2015. The first of its kind in North Carolina, and one of only a handful in the Southeast, the clinic has cared for over 800 children from 11 states across the region. The Child and Adolescent Gender Care program has expanded since its inception to include gender-informed providers from around Duke Health and beyond. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and spiritual care personnel provide practical and emotional support, caring for the whole person. The program works with specialists at Duke and in the community to address all aspects of gender transition across the lifespan, including adolescent primary care, family medicine, aesthetic services and voice specialists. Additionally, there is a  partnership with the Duke Law School for assistance with legal issues, such as name change and school discrimination.  

Clinical social work forms the backbone of mental and behavioral health support for the clinic, including extensive biopsychosocial assessment, in-clinic follow-up, case management and clinical support to the medical team. Additionally, clinical social work provides research support for ongoing research priorities, health system and community provider education and training efforts, community engagement activities, advocacy activities and specialized programming support. Social work collaborates with the larger interdisciplinary team and works closely with psychology and psychiatry services to support best possible outcomes for patients. As part of the Clinical Social Work Division within the Case Management Department of Duke Health, additional departmental responsibilities apply as outline in the summary job description below. 

 

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 edu