Job Details
Job Summary:
The Trauma Program LCSW is an integral member of the multidisciplinary Trauma team and provides comprehensive psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, patient and family support, resource coordination, behavioral health linkage, longitudinal follow-up, and discharge planning for injured patients across the continuum of care.
Job Responsibilities:
-The Trauma Program LCSW will follow all trauma patients from admission through discharge, beginning in the Emergency Department and continuing with patients admitted to inpatient units, step-down units, and Intensive Care Units (ICUs).
-The Social Worker will screen trauma patients from admission, conduct ongoing chart reviews, identify psychosocial and behavioral health needs, coordinate interventions and referrals, and provide continuity of psychosocial care throughout the patient's hospitalization and following discharge.
-The Trauma Program LCSW collaborates closely with Trauma Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Nursing, Utilization Management, Rehabilitation, Behavioral Health, Addiction Services and other clinical services to address psychosocial barriers that may affect recovery, safety, adherence, disposition, and reintegration into the community.
-The position supports trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, patient- and family-centered care and contributes to the Trauma Program's performance improvement, injury prevention, education, community outreach, longitudinal follow-up, and trauma verification-readiness activities.
-The role is intended to complement, not replace, existing Social Work activities and will provide dedicated trauma-focused psychosocial assessment, intervention, coordination, documentation, and follow-up.
Candidates should have experience with:
- Trauma-focused psychosocial care
- Crisis intervention and family support
- PTSD screening and follow-up
- Complex discharge planning
- Behavioral health and community resource coordination
- Performance Improvement (PI) initiatives
- Multidisciplinary collaboration with trauma surgeons, nursing, and clinical teams
- Staff and resident education related to trauma and social work best practices
Required Skills & Experience:
-Knowledge of psychosocial issues associated with traumatic injury, PTSD, grief, crisis intervention, behavioral health, substance use, violence, and community reintegration.
-Knowledge of community resources, benefits, behavioral health services, substance-use resources, violence-related services, trauma-informed care, and discharge-planning principles.
-Ability to conduct timely psychosocial screenings, assessments, chart reviews, interventions, referrals, and longitudinal follow-up.
-Ability to communicate effectively with patients, families, clinical teams, community agencies, and multidisciplinary partners in high-acuity and emotionally challenging circumstances.
-Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary Trauma Program and coordinate care across the Emergency Department, inpatient units, ICUs, rehabilitation settings, outpatient services, and community resources.
-Ability to provide consistent and standardized electronic medical record documentation, including use of Trauma Social Work SmartPhrase/SmartText documentation.
-Ability to participate in a seven-day Trauma Program coverage model, including weekend coverage as assigned.
-Ability to attend Trauma Program morning meetings, multidisciplinary rounds, case conferences, performance improvement activities, and other Trauma Program meetings and initiatives as assigned.
-Demonstrated interest and commitment to providing trauma-informed, culturally responsive, patient- and family-centered social work services to injured patients and their families.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
-N/A
- Acute inpatient discharge planning
- Trauma and behavioral health support
- This is not intended for candidates primarily interested in private practice or psychotherapy-focused work.
•Trauma certification
•Experience supporting trauma patient populations
•Trauma-informed care experience
•PTSD screening and behavioral health follow-up experience
•Crisis intervention and family support experience
Schedule can be 8-4 or 9-5. This is direct hire role and annual salary will be ***
Pay Rate
$17.00 - $17.00/hour
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