Medical Social Worker - Intensive Outpatient Program

About Texas Children's Hospital

Summary:

We are searching for a Social Worker for our Intensive Outpatient Program—someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. You’ll develop, plan, and deliver pediatric social work services to assist patients and families in making psychosocial adaptations to illness, and utilize health care and community resources optimally.

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Requirements

Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including any booster dose(s) of the COVID-19 vaccine recommended by the Centers for Disease Control when eligible, is required for all employees at Texas Children’s, unless approved for a medical or religious exemption
•    Master’s degree in social work from an accredited school of social work 
•    Licensure as Social Worker in the State of Texas 
•    Previous employment in health care, a health care specialization in schooling or a field work practicum in health care preferred
•    Ability to create a thorough psychosocial assessment and develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
•    Ability to conceptualize the psychosocial needs presented by the assigned patient population, to intervene with patient/family behavior, to coordinate community resources and to handle crisis and complex psychosocial situations 
•    Ability to handle grief 
•    Demonstrate initiative, good judgment and problem-solving skills 
•    Ability to demonstrate excellent professional listening and communication skills

Responsibilities
•    Facilitates patients/families use of community resources 
•    Actively participates in providers’ conferences to identify and respond to the psychosocial needs of the patients/families and to provide psychosocial information pertinent to formulating care plans
•    Delivers appropriate, focused patient/family counseling in accordance with the patient’s/family’s right to self-determination and principles of confidentiality 
•    Utilizes quality improvement process to identify improvement opportunities and establish/assess/evaluate programs and services and their outcomes 
•    Educates self by reading professional literature and attending staff development and continuing education program as evidenced by attendance and CEU records 
•    Provides psychosocial screenings/assessments by interviewing patients and/or their families for information about the patients’ social, emotional/psychological, developmental/educational/vocational, environmental, financial and health situations, within authorization periods, as required for patient care and/or treatment/transitional planning 
•    Develops, implements and/or updates comprehensive pediatric social work care plans