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Responsibilities

• Assesses and attends to the psychosocial needs of patients and their families.
• Conducts psychosocial evaluation, crisis intervention, psychotherapeutic support and counseling, and/or psychotherapy.
• Acts as an advocate assisting assigned patients in their physical, emotional, and social adjustment.
• Facilitates an individualized plan of care in a multidisciplinary team approach for each patient.
• Maintains continuity of care by developing and implementing patient discharge plans.
• Originates plans on date of admission, collaborating with patient, family, guardian, caseworker and other community resources.
• Provides evaluations, ongoing monitoring and individual and group counseling, and facilitates adjustment to the secondary effects of illness.
• Acts as liaison between facility, family, government and community agencies.
• Documents social work intervention and completes discharge summary, admission forms or other required paperwork.
• Facilitates transition to the next level of care.
• Responds to crises management situations in accordance with hospital and departmental policy.
• Maintains current and accurate referral sources and uses appropriately.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required

• Master's degree in Social Work.
• Current license as a Licensed Master's Social Worker in the State of Michigan, or current limited license to engage in the practice of social work at the Master's level in the State of Michigan, with full licensure within 3 years from date of hire.
• One to two years Social Work experience in psychiatric evaluation, disposition and treatment with patients of varying diagnoses including but not limited to psychiatric, substance abuse and prior physical impairments.

Preferred

• Ability to regularly work with patients with difficult medical/emotional problems.
• Interpersonal skills to maintain productive relationships with patients, families, service agency personnel, and a variety of hospital and medical staff.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Analytical ability to assess patients' medical/psychotherapeutic circumstances and to make judgments regarding the need for social work intervention or referral to social or mental health agencies.
• Visual acuity and ability to move around hospital, clinic, or patient rooms.
• Ability to cope with stressful situations, management multiple priorities and to work regularly with difficult medical/emotional/emotional/psychosocial problems.

About Tenet Healthcare

Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a leading healthcare services company based in the United States. It operates multiple acute care hospitals, surgical hospitals, and outpatient centers, providing a wide range of medical services including cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, neurology, and women's health.