The Social Worker provides psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, and case management for pediatric patients and their families. Responsibilities include conducting forensic interviews, coordinating medical services, and maintaining accurate client records for legal and clinical purposes.
Requirements summary
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a human services field, Psychology, Social Work, or Nursing, with a master's degree preferred. A minimum of one year of relevant experience is required, with preference given to those with experience working with abused and neglected children.
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Job description
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Core
Job
Summary: The Social Worker provides psychosocial assessments, intervention, and/or treatment and discharge planning to patients and families to assist them in coping with their hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, and/or life situation and meet the continuing needs of patients post hospitalization.
Core
Responsibilities: Interviews clients and their families and coordinates programs and activities to meet their social and emotional needs. Provides crisis intervention and assists families in understanding the implications and complexities of the medical situation and its impact on lifestyle. Provides psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental problems. Formulates and implements plans utilizing appropriate social work interventions. Collaborates with the healthcare team and involves the patients and families in the development and implementation of plans. Assists with the screening, identification, and management of victims of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and rape. Makes referrals and serves as a resource for the healthcare team and serves as a patient advocate. Maintains a working knowledge of relevant medical and legal issues and preserves records and statistics. Attends and participates in staff, committee, department, and other administrative meetings. Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets. Department Specific Functions The Social Worker will report directly to CPT Clinical supervisor, as well as work closely with the Team Coordinator and Medical Director. The primary responsibilities will include crisis intervention, forensic and specialized interviewing, report writing, case management, coordination of medical services, public speaking, training, and utilization and coordination of community resources. This position serves both the Department of Children and Families/law enforcement cases as well as non-custodial cases (VOCA). Primary
Duties and Responsibilities
Interview alleged child maltreatment victims and family members to obtain medical and psychosocial information as well as provide crisis intervention as needed:
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Tuition remission
Available for 24-hour on-call rotation for consultation and/or to provide crisis intervention for suspected child abuse or neglect
Provide Specialized/Forensic interviews and psychosocial evaluations to eligible children and families and send reports within the time frames consistent with program requirements and best practice.
Receive and process referrals and consultations from outside sources according to organizational policies and procedures.
Assistance with Victim Compensation to clients
Review abuse reports received and triage to provide necessary and timely services.
Complete the required data collection forms and submit accurately and on time
Arrange for and conduct team staffings and participate in the development of the recommendations
Participate in case review and peer review
Provide depositions and court testimony
Maintain client records
Perform other duties as assigned Training Remain current on child maltreatment literature and participate in 8 hours of child maltreatment training annually as required. This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary. Core Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in human services field, Psychology, Social Work or Nursing; Master's preferred. Minimum 1 year of relevant experience required. At least two years of post-bachelor experience working with children and families preferred, one year of which must be working with abused and neglected children. Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
Teamwork
Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
Technical
Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
Communication
Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders. Any relevant education, certifications and/or work experience may be considered. The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more. UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.
Job Status
Full time Employee Type: Staff The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation. The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs. Visit welcome.miami.edu/about-um to learn more about our points of pride. The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019. The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.
