Pediatric Social Worker- Inpatient

Overview

The Social Worker creates optimal outcomes for pediatric patients and families by managing complex psychosocial and economic comorbidities. Through advanced practice skills, the SW mobilizes resources to reduce risk and serves as an ambassador between the hospital and community. The role coordinates transitions of care for patients with high psychosocial needs and maintains current knowledge of local, state, and federal services that provide education and resources.

• Provides therapeutic intervention to facilitate complex discharge planning by completing psychosocial assessments and high‑risk screens after independent case‑finding or receiving referrals. Based on the assessment, develops and documents a short‑term treatment plan.
• Identifies the need for and conducts family meetings that result in comfort, decisions, and other important outcomes.
• Serves as the lead in obtaining charity and financial resources, legal guardianship, adoptions, psychiatric referrals, and competency determinations. Utilizes effective principles of interviewing alleged victims, perpetrators, family members, and significant others. Provides intervention for end‑of‑life, guardianship (temporary/permanent), foster care, adoption, etc. Serves as the point person in child abuse/neglect, adult/elderly abuse/neglect, institutional abuse, and domestic violence. Serves as liaison between Tampa General and state and county child and adult protective teams.
  
  Provides intervention in guardianship (temporary/permanent), foster care, adoption, and mental health level II placements.
• Participates in Care Coordination Rounds.
• Helps create function and productivity on the many teams to which the SW belongs, facilitating the resolution of conflict in order to present a united message to patients and families.
• Leads or co‑leads a standing support/education group for an at‑risk population.
• Works with people and agencies in the community to improve responsiveness, capabilities, alignment, and evaluation of services to patients and families.
• Actively participates in clinical performance improvement activities.
• Completes all processes required to facilitate patients' movement through levels of care.
• Provides specialized mental health services including, but not limited to, Crisis Intervention and Addiction Assessments and recommendations for psychiatric referral or community resources. Supports those undergoing acute crisis which often results in the use of de‑escalation techniques necessary to avoid episodes of physical violence.

• MSW degree from a C.S.W.E.–accredited college or university Social Work program.
• At least 2 years' experience in a health care facility or program.
• Pediatric experience strongly preferred.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) preferred.
• Pediatric experience required, Pediatric oncology and nephrology experience highly preferred.

Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL 33601

Full‑time, Monday–Friday