HIV Social Worker - Department of Medicine

Summary

To provide community based medical case management social work services to people living with HIV receiving care in the Froedtert Infectious Disease Clinic. Medical social work services may include care coordination, benefits access, treatment adherence, basic health literacy education, prevention, and counseling. To participate as a member of a multidisciplinary team serving a specialized population of HIV patients.

• Provide medical case management of high acuity people living with HIV who receive their medical care at Froedtert Milwaukee HIV clinics.
• Navigate social service support systems for people with complex medical and psychosocial needs; provide as needed medical social work services (non-case management needs) to individuals with a diverse range of socially and medically complex needs.
• Triage of emergent situations, phone conversations, and the ability to negotiate healthcare and social service systems.
• Complete intake assessments and develop appropriate service plans. Utilize referrals as needed.
• Interface with multidisciplinary care team including medical providers across the health care system.
• Provide basic HIV education including disease progression, treatment and prevention to patients and their support systems.
• Engage in outreach and linkage to care activities to ensure that patients transitioning between health care systems remain linked to care.
• Complete documentation requirements for all services provided and participate in clinical supervision/consultation in compliance with all county, state and federal rules.
• Serve as a team member on multidisciplinary medical care team, communicating with team members to ensure comprehensive and quality wrap‑around support.

• Knowledge of HIV disease progression and treatment practices, including HIV medications; understanding of benefits available to HIV‑positive patients, pregnant women, children and families and a broad social service system. Ability to provide mental health screening and appropriate referral, as well as crisis triage and management. Ability to practice as an active participant in an interdisciplinary team member. Sociocultural sensitivity. Ability to respond to clinical and administrative emergencies.
  
  Education and/or experience in outpatient interventions in community social service and mental health settings.
• Knowledge of biology, clinical judgment, medicine, cultural awareness, and consulting.
• Medical documentation, interpersonal, practice‑based learning and improvement, empathy, and decision‑making skills.

Appropriate experience may be substituted on equivalent basis.

Minimum Required

Education:

Bachelor’s degree

Minimum

Required Experience:

3 years social work experience

Required Certification/Licensures: Certified social worker (State of Wisconsin) required;
Certification in Screening and Brief Intervention and Referral (SBIRT), required within one year of hire

Preferred Experience: Spanish speaker strongly preferred;
Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Counseling or other Mental Health related field; experience with coordination and care navigation health care systems; experience working with people living with HIV and/or experience in an outpatient clinic setting strongly preferred; certification in Motivational Interviewing.

Work requires occasionally lifting moderate weight materials, standing, or walking continuously.

Occasional exposure to dust, noise, temperature changes, or contact with water or other liquids. Work is performed in an environmentally controlled environment.

Ability to detect and translate speech or other communication required. May occasionally require the ability to distinguish colors and perceive relative distances between objects.

• Outstanding Healthcare Coverage, including but not limited to Health, Vision, and Dental. Along with Flexible Spending options
• 403B Retirement Package
• Competitive Vacation and Paid Holidays offered
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• Pet Insurance
• On campus Fitness Facility, offering onsite classes
• Addition…