Clinical Social Worker, MSW

Job Title & Specialty Area: Clinical Social Worker, MSW

Department: Social Work

Location: Dallas, TX (Dallas Cityville Specialty Center)

Shift: Full-time, Mon-Fri

Job Type: On-Site

Why Children's Health?

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being.

Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

Summary:

This position specializes in helping families and adjust to acute and ongoing stressors, providing biopsychosocial expertise for physicians, care providers, and specialty clinics, diagnostic areas, and offsite care locations. These services include clinical assessment and screening, plan of care development, short-term counseling and timely, effective interventions with patient families. This position also serves as the communication hub for all care team members across all disciplines involved, assuring that all care team members are collaborating effectively in the plan of care. Each clinical social worker will be assigned to a clinical service or treatment area but will possess additional knowledge and skill in order to provide coverage in other areas of the system.

Responsibilities:

• Execute timely biopsychosocial screening and assessment of a family's ability to meet their children's healthcare needs by applying specialized knowledge and advance practice skills in assessment treatment, diagnosis of mental illness, care planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Facilitate and reassess parent/child adjustment, functioning and response to illness, emotional trauma, family disruption and hospitalization
• Proactively coordinate discharge plan to ensure that a patient's home and follow-up care is in place at discharge.
• Identify the need for, coordinate, and direct multidisciplinary care conferences related to complex barriers to discharge and post discharge care.
• Assist families in identifying and addressing financial and insurance barriers to healthcare. Collaborate with Patient Financial Services and community resources to support access to coverage, continuity of care, and timely treatment.
• Encouraged to participate in and assist with facilitation of therapeutic programs related to service line or department initiatives (Therapeutic Camps, Support Programs, Adopt-A-Family)
• Maintain proficiency of medical social work across the continuum - inpatient, ambulatory and emergency department. On Call responsibilities for the Emergency Department and Weekend In-House needs as defined by the department on call guidelines.

How You'll Be Successful:

WORK EXPERIENCE

• At least 2 years previous Social Work experience preferred
• At least 4 years related experience preferred

EDUCATION

• Masters Degree required

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)-1A-LMSW State of Texas LMSW license required
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)-1A-LCSW State of Texas LCSW license preferred

A Place Where You Belong

We put our people first. We welcome, value, and respect the beliefs, identities and experiences of our patients and colleagues. We are committed to delivering culturally effective care, creating meaningful partnerships in the communities we serve, and equipping and developing our team members to make Children's Health a place where everyone can contribute.

Holistic Benefits - How We'll Care for You:

• Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.
• 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure
• Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)
• Caregiver Leave
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement

As an equal opportunity employer, Children's Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran or military status, disability, or genetic information or any other Federal or State legally-protected status or class. This applies to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer pay, training, discipline, workforce adjustments, termination, employee benefits, and any other employment-related activity.