Social Worker

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The department of Public Health has an exciting opportunity for a full-time Social Worker, LCSW. The Social Worker, LCSW works with clients in order to help them deal with issues involving mental and emotional health. This position provides emotional support, mental health evaluations and therapy, and case management services. This position will be fully remote.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

• Provide direct counseling and support services using evidence-based approaches, including motivational interviewing, to help patients address substance use, mental health, and co-occurring conditions.
• Deliver crisis intervention, including suicide risk assessment and safety planning, and coordinate emergency services as needed.
• Receive and manage referrals of patients to the program and provide motivational interviewing to increase their willingness to engage in substance use treatment.
• Facilitate referrals and warm handoffs to medical, behavioral health, and social service providers, ensuring continuity of care.
• Identify and screen potential participants per the eligibility criteria for the program and study.
• Conduct enrollment process with potential participants, including addressing any questions they have.
• Conduct psycho/social assessment on potential study participants and conduct additional follow-up assessments as required by the protocol.
• Promote patient or participant engagement in care, adherence to treatment and healthy coping strategies using evidence-based approaches.
• Assess, collect, and maintain accurate patient information and records in a confidential manner.
• Receive laboratory results and transmit them over the phone to the patient, their medical records and/or medical provider as appropriate and in a timely manner.
• Utilize databases, perform data entry, and document project-specific events.  Ensure that all data entry is performed daily and accurately.
• Complete and maintain forms in compliance with protocols.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of all components of assigned protocols through independent analysis and review of project-specific operating procedures.
• Maintain knowledge of and associated resources/information about various community resources and programs for behavioral health and medical services.
• Maintain strong working relationships with health systems, community-based organizations, and social service agencies to expand patient access to needed resources.
• Report incidents or protocol events involving patients or participants in a timely manner.
• Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings to coordinate patient care and optimize outcomes and discuss study progress.
• Communicate regularly with staff about changes, updates, and improvements to workflows that directly or indirectly impact staff and/or participants.
• Attend University, local, state, and national meetings, conferences, or workshops as needed or required.
• Engage in professional development and training to stay current with best practices in behavioral health, HIV care, and integrated service delivery.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s Degree in Social Work
• Certification in relevant specialty or field
• Minimum 1 year of experience
• Experience conducting mental health and substance use assessments, including suicide risk evaluations.
• Experience delivering social/behavioral interventions and using client-centered counseling approaches, such as motivational interviewing.
• Prior work with patients living with HIV, substance use disorders, and other marginalized or medically underserved populations preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:

• English/Spanish bilingual proficiency strongly preferred
• Training in motivational interviewing, patient-centered counseling, or other behavioral health interventions.
• High-level of comfort working with marginalized populations (e.g., people who use drugs, people who are unhoused, people living with HIV, etc.)
• Ability to work independently
• High proficiency of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to access and utilize electronic communication systems (e.g. Zoom, Teams, SLACK, etc.)
• Skills in collecting and organizing health information
• Excellent organizational skills and strong attention to detail
• Strong interviewing techniques and interpersonal communication skills

Any appropriate combination of relevant education, experience and/or certifications may be considered.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

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