Social Worker
Core
Provides social work services, assessments, and discharge planning for patients and families admitted for mental health treatment in an inpatient psychiatric setting.
Role type
Clinical social worker (inpatient psychiatry)
Builds
Comprehensive discharge plans and continuity of care pathways
Domain
Healthcare / Behavioral Health / Psychiatry
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Psychosocial assessment, interdisciplinary team collaboration, resource mobilization, discharge planning, cultural competence
Preferred skills
Acute psychiatric clinical experience, evidence-based behavioral health interventions, biopsychosocial care model
Technologies
Hospital information systems, safety planning tools
Responsibilities
Conduct psychosocial risk screens and ongoing assessments; coordinate safe and timely discharge plans with outpatient providers; provide individual, family, and group interventions; advocate for patients with complex social service agencies; document interventions per hospital policy.
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC