Social Worker I, Psychiatry

WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!

DEPARTMENT SUMMARY

With our large, unmatched faculty, the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center benefits from expertise in nearly all areas pertinent to modern psychiatric practice, ranging from psychoanalysis to neurobiology to psychiatric epidemiology. This expertise includes areas rarely found in psychiatry departments, such as medical ethics, health economics, family systems studies, psychotherapy research, neurogenesis, and psychoneuroendocrinology.

This breadth of experience and expertise is the foundation for our three-part goal of providing excellence in clinical care, conducting groundbreaking translational research, and training tomorrow's leading psychiatry practitioners.

The department's outstanding patient care is carried out in diverse hospital and clinical settings, including UT Southwestern University Hospitals, Parkland, Dallas Veterans Affairs, Children's Medical Center, Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, and Terrell State Hospital. Outpatient and specialty clinics extend our services into the community. We also collaborate with several local community agencies to provide care for the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area.

JOB SUMMARY
Works under close supervision to provide professional, medical, and psychiatric social casework services for hospital or clinic patients.

BENEFITS
UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
Required

• Education
  Bachelor's Degree in Social Work

• Experience
  2 years of experience in medical and/or psychiatric social work to include and
  1 year as Social Work Assistant or equivalent.
  Education may be used in lieu of experience

• Licenses and Certifications
  (LBSW) LICENSED BACHELOR SOCIAL WORKER - Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker Upon Hire. Open to LMSW candidates as well.

JOB DUTIES

• Interviews patients and sometimes members of their families to obtain information concerning home environment, family relationships, health history, financial status, and personality traits to better understand personal needs or problems of each patient.
• Counsels patients with respect to medical, surgical, and other programs and alternatives available to needs of patients.
• Evaluates information obtained through interviews and counseling in terms of available medical treatments or procedures and social services, conferring with appropriate medical personnel to develop program to meet particular needs of each patient.
• Follows up patients through home visits and/or telephone to determine degree of compliance with programs or need to make revisions in such programs; reschedules clinic or hospital appointments, arranges transportation, or performs such other services as may be indicated necessary.
• Assists patients and their families to understand, accept, and follow medical, psychiatric and/or other recommendations.
• Refers patients to appropriate community social service agencies for financial assistance, employment, legal aid, or assistance in resolving other personal or family problems.
• Maintains chronological notes, clinic charts, or case histories for each patient with respect to social problems, adjustment of patient and family, and actions taken or planned by social worker.
• Interprets to other social service agencies, medical or psychological condition of patients as related to their emotional adjustment, physical limitations, employment, and financial needs, and to medical staff, those social, economic, or emotional factors which may be related to patients' medical care and physical rehabilitation.
• Plans and conducts community meetings and discussion sessions relating to work of agency.
• May provide working supervision to one or several students, professional, or paraprofessional social case workers of lower grade; may make assignments, review work in process and at completion, and advise with respect to resolution of work problems.
• May participate in clinical and laboratory research in such areas as animal research, child development, physiological and behavioral functioning, etc.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

SECURITY AND EEO STATEMENT
Security
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.

EEO Statement
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.

UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:
• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare - no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!