The Social Worker – MSW will provide comprehensive psychosocial services to patients admitted to Nemours Children’s Hospital. The primary focus will be addressing patients’ psychosocial needs and enhancing their overall well-being. Additionally, you’ll play a crucial role in facilitating patient and family adjustment to illness, ensuring optimal functioning for both individuals and families. We expect excellence in the following areas:

1. Psychosocial Support:
   • Offer compassionate and evidence-based psychosocial support to children with various diagnoses, including medical illness, ADHD, depression, anxiety, and autism spectrum disorders.
2. Family Assistance:
   • Assist families in navigating the healthcare system effectively.
   • Link families with a range of services tailored to meet their unique needs.
3. Age-Specific Expertise:
   • Apply age-specific principles of growth and development to your practice.
4. Collaboration:
   • Collaborate seamlessly with all members of the healthcare team, fostering effective communication and teamwork.     

Position Responsibilities

The Social Worker – MSW will play a pivotal role in addressing patients’ psychosocial needs within our healthcare setting. The responsibilities encompass assessment, intervention, coordination, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. Here are the key aspects of your role:

1. Complex Assessment and Goal Setting:

   • Conduct comprehensive assessments of patients and their families’ biopsychosocial situations.

   • Establish clear goals and periodically re-assess the patient/family situation.

   • Document thorough psychosocial assessments and histories for patients and families.

2. Crisis Intervention Services:

   • Provide timely crisis intervention services, including cases involving domestic violence, psychiatric emergencies, child abuse, and family disputes.

3. Referral Triage and Treatment:

   • Assess patient mental health needs and refer for counseling and psychiatry as needed (both internally and to external community providers)

4. Comprehensive Care Management:

   • Perform admission screenings and psychosocial assessments.

   • Offer case management, medical crisis counseling, patient/family education, advocacy, residential placement, community referral facilitation, crisis intervention, and mental health evaluation.

5. Child Abuse Investigations and Domestic Violence Management:

   • Assist with the assessment and coordination of child abuse investigations within the hospital.

   • In collaboration with the medical team, manage domestic violence situations.

6. Professional Development:

   • Continuously update your education and skill level in the field.

   • Attend in-service presentations and continuing education programs to maintain and enhance your knowledge base.

7. Hospital Discharge Planning:

   • Asses social barriers to discharge, work collaboratively with case management, participate in rounds, and escalate complex cases to avoid discharge delays. 

8. On-Call Responsiveness:

   • If on-call, promptly respond to events and service requests within 5 minutes of receiving a phone call.

   • Remain within a 30-minute drive of the hospital.

9.  Additional miscellaneous duties and responsibilities, as may be assigned from time to time by employee’s supervisor

Position requirements

• Masters degree in Social Work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) is required.

• MSW from an institution accredited by the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) is required

• Minimum one year of social work experience is required; 3+ years is preferred (in lieu of one year of experience, graduate school internship may be applied).

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org.