The Social Worker conducts face-to-face assessments and counseling with patients and families, collaborating with the healthcare team to ensure safe, timely, and resourceful care. The role involves interpreting complex psychosocial needs, providing crisis intervention, supporting discharge planning, and serving as a key liaison with protective services and community agencies.
Requirements
- Meet face-to-face with patients and families to assess psychosocial needs and provide counseling.
- Collaborate with the healthcare team to facilitate a coordinated, safe, and timely episode of care.
- Interpret and communicate complex patient and family needs while modeling caring and professional practices.
- Assess psychosocial risk factors through evaluation of prior functioning, support systems, reactions to illness, and coping skills.
- Counsel patients and families regarding emotional, social, and financial impacts of illness/disability.
- Access and mobilize family and community resources to meet identified needs.
- Provide mental health assessments upon physician referral.
- Deliver therapeutic interventions to support complex discharge planning.
- Serve as the primary contact for cases involving child abuse/neglect, elder/elderly abuse/neglect, institutional abuse, and domestic violence.
- Act as liaison between Indiana University Health and local child and adult protective teams (APS/DCS).
- Provide intervention in guardianship (temporary/permanent), foster care, adoption, and mental health Level II placements.
- Offer specialized mental health services, including crisis intervention, addiction assessments, and community resource recommendations.
- Support individuals in dangerous or potentially dangerous situations, providing leadership in clinical interventions.
- Use de-escalation techniques to support patients in acute crises and prevent violence.
- Conduct effective interviews with victims, perpetrators, family members, and key stakeholders.
- Provide intervention for end-of-life, guardianship, foster care, and adoption cases.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
