Social Worker-MSW LCSW-Nights

Social Worker – MSW / LCSW

Location: Riley Hospital
Shift: Full-Time Nights

Join Our Dedicated Pediatric and Adult Behavioral Health Team!

Indiana University Health Riley Hospital is seeking a compassionate and experienced Master’s Level Social Worker (MSW) with a permanent LCSW license to provide vital psychosocial support and clinical interventions during night shifts. This role involves face-to-face patient and family interactions, crisis management, discharge planning, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective, and compassionate care.

Position Overview:

• Meet face-to-face with patients and families, providing assessments, counseling, and resource coordination

• Assist in developing educational materials for patients, families, and healthcare teams

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

• Collaborate with the clinical team to develop individualized treatment plans to address psychosocial issues and needs, including consulting on mental health diagnoses

• Interpret and communicate complex patient and family needs, modeling caring and professional practices to caregivers

• Assess psychosocial risk factors by evaluating prior functioning, support systems, reactions to illness, and coping strategies

• Counsel patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial impacts of health conditions or disabilities

• Access and mobilize community and family resources to meet patient needs

• Conduct mental health assessments upon physician referral

• Facilitate complex discharge planning to ensure safe transfer to appropriate care levels

• Serve as a point person for cases involving child abuse/neglect, elder abuse/neglect, institutional abuse, and domestic violence

• Act as a liaison between IU Health and protective services (APS/DCS)

• Provide crisis intervention, de-escalation, and behavioral health services, including addiction assessments and psychiatric referrals

• Support management of dangerous or potentially dangerous situations with leadership and clinical intervention

• Use principles of interviewing victims, perpetrators, families, and significant others to gather critical information

• Provide intervention at end-of-life, guardianship (temporary/permanent), foster care, and adoption cases

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Education: Master’s Degree in Social Work required.

• Licensure: Permanent Indiana license as an LCSW required.

• Certifications:

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

• Experience: Relevant healthcare, mental health, or community-based experience preferred.

• 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 related to health social needs

  • Complex discharge planning skills for safe patient transfers

  • Legal mandates for child and adult protective services (state and county)

  • Principles of growth and development across the lifespan, including end-of-life care

  • Ability to identify decision-makers and lead goals of care conversations to optimize patient throughput and care quality

  • Experience adapting services for diverse populations across geographic, cultural, and financial backgrounds

  • Strong relationships with hospital administrators, healthcare teams, law enforcement, APS/DCS, schools, probation, and community agencies

  • Computer literacy and proficiency in electronic medical record documentation

Why Join IU Health?

Become a vital part of our compassionate, multidisciplinary team committed to delivering exceptional psychosocial and behavioral health services. We support your professional growth and provide opportunities to make a meaning