Social Worker - MSW - UPMC Northwest

UPMC is hiring a full-time Social Worker - MSW to join their UPMC Magee-Womens Pregnancy and Women's Recovery Center at UPMC Northwest! UPMC Magee-Womens Pregnancy and Women's Recovery Center is an outpatient program that provides comprehensive, coordinated, and compassionate care to women with substance use disorders. Utilizing harm reduction principles, our interdisciplinary team provides wholistic plans of care and empowers women to become leaders in their own recoveries.

This employee will work in both the Inpatient and Outpatient setting from a care management/social work perspective. Some of the responsibilities of this position will include completing treatment plans and identifying SDOH need and goals, providing specialized and individualized education for patients, and working with Inpatient Discharge Planners regarding aftercare, needs, follow-up services and resources.

Hours for this position will be Monday through Friday, daylight hours, with no evenings, weekends, or holidays! Previous experience in caring for patients with recovery is preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates expertise in accessing social systems by providing resource-specific information to patients and families, initiating contact with appropriate resources and facilitating the patient / family's ability to accept referrals.
• Maintain extensive knowledge of federal, state and local assistance programs and community resources that affect patient needs.
• Acts as a mentor to social work students and/or serves as a field instructor to MSW students.
• Successfully utilize therapeutic counseling methods such as crisis intervention, psychosocial support, brief goal-directed therapy, CISM and/or other appropriate therapeutic methods that may be appropriate to the clinical situation.
• Provides accurate, timely and appropriate documentation of all social work interventions in the medical record per regulatory policies and procedures.
• Demonstrate a knowledge of reimbursement systems, the ability to educate patients and families regarding payer requirements / coverage for post-acute care services and the ability to effectively advocate on behalf of the patient to obtain authorizations for continued care as appropriate.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify, assess, counsel and effectively intervene with medically and psychosocially complex patients with the ability to understand complex dynamics related to the clinical situation.
• Continue to monitor and evaluate the plan of care, options and available services throughout the hospital stay to effectively meet the patient and family's need. Reassess the plan of care as status changes or at a minimum of every 3 days.
• Demonstrate appropriate professional practice, maintaining respect for confidentiality and freedom of choice as outlined by the Code of Ethics by the National Association of Social Workers as well as the State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors.
• Collaborate effectively with the healthcare team, patients and families and relevant community resources to develop and implement and individualized plan of care.
• Educate and advocate for patients and families to enhance their ability to make informed decisions regarding medical care, discharge planning, advance directives and end of life care including actively participating in the guardianship process when appropriate.
• Complete a psychosocial assessment that includes social, economic, cultural, age-related and behavioral factors, history of child, elder or domestic abuse, prior psychiatric or substance abuse treatment, family and social support systems and all other available resources as appropriate to the clinical situation.

MSW degree from a CSWE accredited School of Social Work required.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
Current / active Social Work License required or successful pass of the social work licensing exam within 9 months of employment.

• Clinical Social Worker (CSW) OR Licensed Social Worker (LSW)
• Act 34

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

UPMC has a Center for Engagement and Inclusions that is charged with executing leading-edge and next- generation diversity strategies to advance the organization’s diversity management capability and its national presence as a diversity leader. This includes having Employee Resources Groups, such as PRIDE Health or UPMC ENABLED (Empowering Abilities and Leveraging Difference) Network, that support the implementation of our diversity strategy.