Clinical Social Worker-Behavioral Health PRN Duke Regional

Duke Regional Hospital has served Durham, Orange, Person, Granville and Alamance counties and the surrounding communities for nearly 40 years. With more than 1,900 employees, its focus is on providing outstanding medical care with compassionate, personalized service in a comfortable community hospital setting. Duke Regional Hospital has 369 inpatient beds and offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical and diagnostic services, including orthopedics, weight-loss surgery, women's services, and heart and vascular services, and also offers care at the Duke Rehabilitation Institute and Davis Ambulatory Surgical Center. In fiscal year 2018, Duke Regional Hospital admitted 16,299 patients and had 165,953 outpatient visits in fiscal year 2017.

 

U.S. News & World Report ranked Duke Regional Hospital as #10 in North Carolina and #4 in the Raleigh-Durham area for 2018-19.

 

External Candidate eligible for a $5000.00 Commitment Bonus

 

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 increase further enhancement of job related knowledge.

Level II 
•    Perform all of the duties and responsibilities of Level. workers and clinical social workers on the team.
•    Provide clinical and administrative supervision for social 
•    Lead team meetings and manage coverage. •    Participate in hiring and performance management processes. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Level I Level II
Adherence to the practice standards and ethical guidelines of NASW and the NC Certification Board for Social Work.
•    Excellent verba