Medical Social Worker - Intensive Outpatient Program

 
Position: Medical Social Worker - Intensive Outpatient Program

Job ID: 403489

Location: US-TX-Houston

Department: Psychiatry Administration

Talent Area: Social Worker

Full/Part Time: Full time

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Shift: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

About Texas Children's Hospital

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S.News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Center for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston. We have also created the nation’s first HMO for children, established the largest pediatric primary care network in the country and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is also academically affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

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Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.



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
 



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