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Job Description
At our company, our mission starts with our people. Guided by our HEART values of Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust, we strive to create a workplace where teammates feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work every day. As Social Worker, you’ll provide pediatric social work services that help patients and families adapt to illness and access health care and community resources. You’ll deliver developmentally appropriate, family-centered support that promotes continuity of care and positive outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Conducts psychosocial screenings and assessments to identify patient and family social, emotional, developmental, educational, environmental, financial, and health care needs
- Analyzes assessment findings to identify psychosocial concerns, available resources, and health education needs
- Develops, implements, evaluates, and updates individualized social work care plans in collaboration with patients, families, and providers
- Supports continuity of care and transitional planning based on patient developmental needs, medical history, and psychosocial circumstances
- Identifies appropriate community resources and assesses patient and family understanding of referral information and access needs
- Coordinates referrals and services with patients, families, providers, and community agencies to support access to financial assistance, health care, public assistance, protective services, educational services, and other resources
- Collaborates with providers to address psychosocial needs and incorporate relevant information into patient care plans
- Provides focused counseling, including anticipatory guidance, supportive counseling, adjustment-to-illness counseling, crisis intervention, and grief counseling
- Refers patients and families to therapeutic counseling and other appropriate services as needed
- Documents assessments, care plans, referrals, counseling, patient progress, and outcomes in the medical record
- Participates in quality-improvement and practice-improvement initiatives
- Maintains professional knowledge through continuing education, professional literature, community outreach, presentations, and student supervision
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in social work from an accredited school of social work required
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Master Social Worker, or Licensed Master Social Worker Advanced Practice license issued by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council required
- Previous health care employment, a health care specialization in schooling, or a health care fieldwork practicum required
About Us
Texas Children’s Pediatrics is the nation’s largest primary pediatric care network with more than 200 physicians dedicated to the health care needs of infants to teenagers in over 50 locations throughout the greater Houston area. As part of our goal to build a community of healthy children, Texas Children's Pediatrics Community Cares Program provides trusted, high-quality pediatric medical services for children who otherwise would seek care from emergency centers or possibly go without care or treatment due to low family incomes and/or lack of health insurance.
To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.
Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.
