Medical Social Worker, Emergency Department at Portland, OR (Marquam Hill) – Portland, Oregon

• Conducts psychosocial evaluations of patients/families and significant others including, but not limited to the following:
  • adjustment to medical or health condition; care coordination; mental health status; adjustment/compliance to treatment process; substance usage; child and elder abuse/neglect assessments; domestic violence issues; cognitive status (including potential guardian issues); and patient/family resources.
• Provides crisis intervention and supportive short-term counseling to patients/families and significant others as necessary to meet immediate psycho-social needs including, but not limited to:
  • Trauma/Emergency Department/ On Call/ Family Notification, CODE Response (family intervention); unanticipated change in health conditions/suicidal ideation; teenage pregnancy; single parent pregnancy/parenthood, domestic violence, child and elder abuse/neglect.
• Provides grief/loss counseling and education regarding: fetal demise; actual/pending death of patient/ family member; complicated pregnancies; pregnancy termination support, postpartum depression; chronic/ acute stress associated with life circumstances; divorce/separation; loss of independence associated with illness or disability.

• Provides brief psychotherapy including: individual short-term psychotherapy; group work including information/ support groups, family support, patient therapy); regarding but not limited to issues of adoption, abortion, domestic violence, family of origin, sexual/gender, substance abuse, parenting, relationship adjustment to disabilities and chronic or acute illness.

• Provides patient advocacy and associated services to patient/family and other involved agencies/parties regarding decision-making; advance directives; ethics consultations; court holds; guardianship/ conservatorship; citizenship cases; and social cultural factors.

• Maintains accurate and timely documentation of patient care activities an efficient manner per departmental policies. Participates in Department of Care Management and assigned service meetings, in services and conferences, as indicated including Complex Patient Interdisciplinary Rounds. Provides support to patient care staff following traumatic events through individual or group consultation. Reviews literature on pertinent patient care/Social Work service issues and conducts in services regarding psychosocial patient care issues and Social Work services. Meets in regularly scheduled supervisory sessions. Participates in patient rounds as appropriate. Complete all OHSU/JCAHO mandatory education requirements and activities within established time lines. Yearly competencies as identified by department.

Job Related Knowledge,Skills and Abilities (Competencies):

• Assessment Proficiency
• Short-term Counseling
• Crisis Intervention
• Excellent task Prioritizing
• Effective Communication Skills
• Proficiency and skill in providing social work services in a healthcare setting
• Time Management · Organization · Patient Advocacy
• Problem Solving
• Creativity
• Adaptability
• Critical thinking
• Conflict Resolution
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without accommodation

• Health care experience preferred.
• Bilingual language skill are strongly preferred