Public Health Social Worker

The Public Health Social Worker will provide expert advice and troubleshooting solutions to support Maternal Infant Health Program (MIHP) Nurses in connecting their participating families to quality resources in the community.

Requirements

• Identifies the social and emotional needs of clients.
• Provides counseling, education, support, advocacy, and crisis intervention services.
• Builds and maintains trusting relationships with staff, MIHP families and community resource partners.
• Develops and maintains a network of high-quality community resources.
• Assists MIHP nurses achieve evidence-based outcomes.
• Creates easily accessible rapid-response and long-term solutions for MIHP nurses and families to connect effectively to quality community resource networks.
• Ensures timely and accurate entry of required information into MIHP databases and files.
• Participates on selected community and agency committees as directed.
• Attends and participates in workshops, meetings, seminars, and conferences as directed.
• Participates in orientation and training of assigned staff.
• Operates an automobile to perform assigned job functions.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous paid time off
• 401k matching
• Retirement plan