Philadelphia

Pennsylvania

1963 live openings

• Identify funding options for funeral expenses and coordinate with funeral homes for affordable arrangements.
• Support coordination of care for psychosocial emergencies
• Provide crisis intervention services as indicated for the management of interpersonal violence, psychiatric crisis, child abuse, and family disputes.
• Interface with community service providers including healthcare, legal, child welfare, and government programs.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships across disciplines and coordinate family meetings within the MFM care environment. Assist in facilitating recommendations resultant of team meetings.
• Bridge transition of psychosocial care between the antenatal and postnatal environment and to referring physicians to facilitate warm family handoff
• Document social work notes in the patient medical record according to Social Work Department policy.
• Provide community resources and information in response to assessed patient/family needs.
• Coordinate safe and sustainable discharge needs of patients in an efficient, effective, and timely manner while including the family in the process.
• Work with patient care coordinators to assist in family resources on referral to the center
• Help families apply for Social Security Disability and Disabled Children’s Medicaid (state-specific).
• Connect families with financial resources for utilities, phone bills, water, heat, and oil.
• Maintain a professional manner at all times with associates, families and community partners.
• Provide training, supervision, modeling, clinical support, coaching, and feedback to social work students and volunteers. May precept newly hired social workers.
• Representation on hospital projects with approval by department leadership.
• Additional miscellaneous duties and responsibilities, as may be assigned from time to time by employee’s supervisor.
• Attend patient care unit and/or medical division rounds in accordance with team expectations and provide inpatient admission screening on assigned patient care unit.

• Job Requirements
• Must have a Masters Degree in Social Work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
• Minimum 2 (two) years of post-masters experience required.
• Must have an active LMSW, LSW or LCSW required.
• Graduate school internship may be applied to job-related experience at the discretion of the Director.
• Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) preferred.

What We Offer

• Competitive base compensation in the top quartile of the market
• Annual incentive compensation that values clinical activity, academic accomplishments and quality improvement
• Comprehensive benefits: health, life, dental, vision
• 403B with employer match.
• Licensure, CME and dues allowance
• Not-for-profit status; eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
• For those living and working in Florida, enjoy the benefit of no state income tax. Those based in Delaware benefit from the state's moderate tax structure.

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Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.

Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Learn more at Nemours.org [https://www.nemours.org].