Clinical Social Worker-Transplant Addiction Specialist

Clinical Social Worker-Transplant Addiction Specialist

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Pursue your passion for caring with Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, ranked among the best in the U.S. The largest of Duke Health's four hospitals, with 1,062 patient beds and comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including an emergency/trauma center and an endo-surgery center.

External Candidates eligible for a $5,000 Commitment Bonus paid over 1 year.

Provide psychosocial assessments, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as discharge planning and consultation about patients and families to assist them and the healthcare team in coping with hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, treatment, and life situations, including emotional, mental, and substance abuse disorders. Function in a supervisory role as a team leader in addition to the duties of Level I.

• Provide psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.
• Formulate, develop, and implement a comprehensive psychosocial treatment plan utilizing appropriate clinical social work treatments and interventions.
• Interventions may include crisis intervention, brief and long-term individual, marital, family, and/or group therapies, as well as grief and bereavement work.
• Screen, identify, diagnose using DSM nomenclature, treat and manage mental health and/or substance abuse problems in patients and family members.
• Provide training to health care professionals.
• May perform these functions independently or as part of a team.
• Assist with screening, identification, diagnosis, management and treatment of victims of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, rape, etc.
• May participate in on-call or after‑hours coverage.
• Provide consultative services to health care team members within scope of care definitions as needed.
• Maintain a working knowledge of relevant medical/legal issues that impact patient care (e.g., advance directives, child and elder abuse).
• Provide education to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.
• Participate in multi‑disciplinary healthcare teams and provide leadership as liaison with patient and family.
• Provide teaching and training for students, staff, and faculty from social work and other disciplines.
• Contribute to the academic mission by participating in academic activities such as committees, conferences, publications, teaching, and research.
• Maintain working knowledge of and liaison with community agencies and resources.
• Arrange, procure, and coordinate patient/family pre‑ and post‑hospital needs.
• Document assessment, plan, interactions, and interventions per departmental, hospital, and health system guidelines and standards.
• Maintain records and statistics per department, hospital, medical center, and health system policies.
• Attend and participate in staff, committee, department, and other administrative meetings.
• Participate in continuous quality improvement.
• Participate in regular supervisory conferences; keep current with social work and health care developments and seek to increase knowledge.

• Perform all duties and responsibilities of Level I clinical social workers on the team.
• Provide clinical and administrative supervision for social workers.
• Lead team meetings and manage coverage.
• Participate in hiring and performance management processes.

• Adherence to the practice standards and ethical guidelines of NASW and the NC Certification Board for Social Work.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Solid knowledge of clinical social work practice.
• Excellent assessment, interviewing, and counseling skills with expertise in mental health and substance abuse areas.
• Familiarity with psychopathology and range of therapeutic interventions including…