Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Per Diem

Department
:
Jackson Memorial Hospital

Address
: 1611 NW 12th Ave, Miami, Florida, 33136

Shift details
:
Per Diem, Days

Jackson Memorial Hospital is the flagship hospital for Jackson Health System and it has been a beacon of medical excellence and community care for more than a century. Throughout its rich and storied history, Jackson Memorial - located in the heart of the City of Miami - has been ground zero for some of the world’s greatest medical breakthroughs and important moments in South Florida.

We’ve grown into one of the nation’s largest public hospitals, and one of the few that is also a world-class academic medical center with a proud mission and proven success. Jackson Memorial is an accredited, tertiary teaching hospital with 1,500 licensed beds, where nearly every medical specialty is provided by some of the world’s most skilled and highly regarded multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW is professional and supervisory clinical social casework in medical, nursing and convalescent facilities of JHS.
• Employees in this class provide professional supervision over subordinate social workers engaged in direct inpatient or outpatient clinical casework services.
• Related responsibilities include providing advanced professional casework service in complex cases requiring a high degree of skill and mature judgment in evaluating social diagnostic information and arriving at appropriate support measures.
• Some positions in the class participate in the clinical casework training of graduate students in an accredited internship program. Incumbents apply considerable knowledge of disease entities and medical or psychiatric terminology associated with a clinical setting in addition to the philosophy, principles and practices of professional social work. Work of subordinate social workers is reviewed for adherence to accepted quality standards of social casework.
• May require to conduct social work duties, identify and refer violent crime victims and their families to Thriving Mind South Florida for services in the VOCA Trauma Recovery Network.

• Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary staff to design and implement appropriate treatment plans, including discharge plans.
• Provides professional counseling and therapeutic intervention to patients and/or families utilizing treatment modalities appropriate to work with adults and their families.
• Collaborates with community agencies which provide services for adults and their families. Leads or co-leads patients groups as needed. Submits statistical reports as required.
• Participates in orientation and training of social work and interdisciplinary staff. Participates on research projects as required for program planning and evaluation. Maintains current knowledge of social work practice including specific knowledge of the bio-psychosocial issues of adults. Participates in Committees as assigned. Supervises students.
• Provides coverage as assigned. Participates in hospital, departmental and unit meetings. Provide Social Work Services to patients and/or families.
• Employees that work for the VOCA Trauma Recovery Network may conduct social work duties to identify and refer violent crime victims and their families to Thriving Mind South Florida (contracting as South Florida Behavioral Health Network, Inc.). The duties may include but not limited to: provides brief crisis intervention to victims and/or family utilizing appropriate, evidence-based approaches, and assess eligibility for services though Thriving Mind’s VOCA-funded Trauma Recovery Network (TRN);
  Work collaboratively with the TRN and interdisciplinary staff to implement appropriate discharge plans and facilitate…