Organization:
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Position Location (City, State):
Philadelphia, PA

Contact Name:
Brittany Puketza

Email:
Preferred
[email protected]

Position Title:
Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Job Type:
Multiple Positions Open

Position Description:
CHOP is preparing to open its first ever inpatient psychiatry program in the former Mercy Catholic Medical Center in West Philadelphia. The overall facility is a collaboration among Public Health Management Corp., Penn Medicine and CHOP. CHOP will open a crisis response center and three licensed psychiatry inpatient units for children and adolescents with a total of 46 private rooms. Therapist will provide individual, group, and family therapy using evidence-based practices and work collaboratively with a dedicated multidisciplinary team to support patients through a journey of hope and healing.

Seeking Breakthrough Makers
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)—named America’s 2022 Best Large Employer by Forbes—offers countless ways to change lives. Our diverse community of more than 20,000 Breakthrough Makers will inspire you to pursue passions, develop expertise, and drive innovation. At CHOP, your experience is valued; your voice is heard; and your contributions make a difference for patients and families. Join us as we build on our promise to advance pediatric care—and your career.

CHOP’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
CHOP is committed to building an inclusive culture where employees feel a sense of belonging, connection, and community within their workplace. We are a team dedicated to fostering an environment that allows for all to be their authentic selves. We are focused on attracting, cultivating, and retaining diverse talent who can help us deliver on our mission to be a world leader in the advancement of healthcare for children.

We strongly encourage all candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.

A Brief Overview
Provide professional mental health treatment to both patients and their families, utilizing recognized best practice interventions, such as CBT, DBT, and behavioral and systemic family therapies. Individuals in this role will additionally provide group therapy and support the milieu interventions. These core services include assessment of psychosocial functioning and capacities, ability to complete a mental status examination, provide psychotherapeutic interventions, and work collaboratively with a comprehensive multidisciplinary team. Engaging in data driven consultation, supportive coaching, and collaborative problem solving with the full treatment team with compassion and quality care will support success of our mission! Must be able to provide supervision to developing mental health providers in the treatment of children and their families, including training and direct supervision of Fellows. Also provide clinical care to the Behavioral Health Integrated Program when appropriate on an as needed basis.

What you will do

Professional Practice
Assesses, plans, implements professional interventions based upon knowledge of social work practice, human behavior and the social environment, as well as child and family development and functioning. Interventions are directed to the required by patients and their families around diagnosis, hospitalization, and any continuing care that may be required over time.

• Performs psychosocial assessment with patients and/or family.
• Intervenes/treats patient and/or family-based on the psychosocial assessment providing age and developmentally appropriate counseling, treatment and resources as indicated.
• Encourages and utilizes feedback from patients, families and other staff to improve professional services. Evaluates the effectiveness of professional services and redefines goals or modalities as indicated. Organizes individual workload and sets priorities based on patient care needs and departmental standards. Meets workload standards for assigned areas.
• Adheres to professional medical - legal reporting requirements. Seeks appropriate supervision on risk management issues.

• Responsible for accurate documentation of professional services in the patient's electronic medical record. All requirements for record keeping and documentation, including billing data, are to be completed in a timely manner.
• Required documentation of assessments and interventions are well organized, clear, and timely.
• All written work is compliant and recorded properly according to hospital policy.
• Required information system data is completed and submitted according to program, department and hospital standards.
• Completes hospital, department and program requests for information within required time frames.
• Completes and submits any required reports or forms to other departments or outside agencies (as appropriate) within required time frames.

• Promotes a positive, professional work environment with patients/families, hospital staff, as well as agencies and organizations providing services to patients and families.
• Actively supports the mission, goals and priorities of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
• Maintains positive and effective work relationships with internal and external customers.
• Appropriately exchanges constructive feedback with peers, colleagues and supervisory staff.
• Actively participates in team meetings, care conferences, rounds and other forums designed to facilitate the delivery of effective and efficient patient and family care
• Educates others on the psychosocial aspects of health and illness.
• Demonstrates cultural sensitivity in all work performed.
• Collaborates with others in the promotion of health through education and wellness initiatives.
• Demonstrates a positive professional attitude and cooperatively and constructively relates to patients, families, staff and guests of the organization.
• Acts in advocacy role to develop and improve psychosocial services to patients and families.

• Demonstrates leadership in their programs, the department, hospital and as appropriate, the community.
• Identifies barriers to effective service delivery or problems in work assignments and demonstrates effective and timely problem solving.
• Plans, develops and implements interventions, systems or programs that improve service delivery.
• Actively participates in one program, department, hospital or community committee.
• Actively participates in quality improvement initiatives in assigned service area.
• Is willing to provide in-service education to interested audiences.
• When appropriate, serves as a field instructor, preceptor or lecturer in the student program or other educational forums of the hospital.

• Responsible for the development and enhancement of professional practice skills.
• Recognizes areas of strength and areas for development.
• Develops plan for supervision, consultation and/or learning.
• Utilizes team members, peers and supervisory staff in consultation for professional development.
• Incorporates new knowledge and feedback into practice.
• Meets annual requirements for professional continuing education.
• Meets annual requirements for mandatory education.
• Subscribes and adheres to the NASW Code of Ethics.

• Master's Degree Social Work, Social Welfare, Counseling, or related field Required

• Prior clinical social work experience Required
• Previous experience in a hospital, health organization or mental health agency setting Preferred

• Knowledge of typical and atypical child development and related areas.
• Knowledge of child psychopathology.
• Knowledge of therapy and psychological assessment techniques with children and families.
• Knowledge of behavioral methodology and principles.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing in English.
• Ability to direct and motivate staff teams.
• Critical analysis and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other health care team providers.
• Ability to develop trusting relationships with patients, families and staff.
• Ability to work with sensitivity to cultural diversity and assists staff in understanding this diversity.
• Ability to identify community resources for families and advocate on their behalf.
• Ability to present self with professional approach and appearance with high level of emotional maturity.
• Ability to learn public health policy and health care legislation and respond to it as a family advocate.

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) (Pennsylvania) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board - upon hire - Required or
• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) (Pennsylvania) ) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board - upon hire - Required

Click Here to Apply by 08/31/2024

Organization:
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Position Location (City, State):
Philadelphia, PA

Contact Name:
Brittany Puketza

Email:
[email protected]

Position Title:
Psychiatric Case Manager Inpatient Psychiatric Unit

Job Type:
Full-time

Seeking Breakthrough Makers

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) offers countless ways to change lives. Our diverse community of more than 20,000 Breakthrough Makers will inspire you to pursue passions, develop expertise, and drive innovation.

At CHOP, your experience is valued; your voice is heard; and your contributions make a difference for patients and families. Join us as we build on our promise to advance pediatric care—and your career.

CHOP’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

CHOP is committed to building an inclusive culture where employees feel a sense of belonging, connection, and community within their workplace. We are a team dedicated to fostering an environment that allows for all to be their authentic selves. We are focused on attracting, cultivating, and retaining diverse talent who can help us deliver on our mission to be a world leader in the advancement of healthcare for children.

We strongly encourage all candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.

A Brief Overview
Under the general supervision of the Inpatient Clinical Director, the Psychiatric Case Manager provides clinically based support to the multidisciplinary treatment team through reports of patient behavioral data as it relates to continued medical necessity for acute inpatient psychiatric care or crisis stabilization care. The Psychiatric Case Manager conducts concurrent reviews with payors as required to ensure continuous funding support for patients. The Psychiatric Case Manager maintains knowledge of the criteria of medical necessity for each level of care as well as individual payor requirements. Responsible for the overall onsite utilization review.

What you will do

• Continued stay authorization for psychiatric inpatient and crisis stabilization beds
• Provides clinical information to outside review agencies to justify extensions using continued stay criteria: Collects, analyzes, and interprets data, determining importance of information collected, forming inferences and/or forecasts on how to utilize data
• Assists clinical staff by collecting data as requested to assist in monitoring quality care
• Prepares monthly statistical reports on utilization review activities and additional narrative or statistical reports as requested
• Provides ongoing education of clinical staff regarding insurance requirements and medical record documentation
• Attends treatment team meetings and rounds to coordinate with patient's care team as needed
• Attends individual patient huddles as indicated
• Conducts case review, including documentation preparation and coordination, to determine justification for appeals in instances where payment has been denied or will potentially be denied
• Manages calls to/from insurance providers
• Using approved screening criteria, reviews and assesses appropriateness, in terms of medical necessity, of admissions and continued stay; will need to collate information from assessments done by provider/ clinical team members
• Acts as liaison between managed care company and clinician
• Reviews and assesses adequacy and appropriateness of clinical information being sent to insurance companies
• Paired with a utilization review and financial case representatives to monitor and proactively communicate financial and insurance information to patients’ treatment team to apprise them of third-party requirements that impact treatment plan and update them of current status of patients’ use of benefits in order to maximize prompt collection for services and prevent bad debt
• Works collaboratively with utilization review and finance office staff to ensure that patient services are covered by third party payer and that both the patient and treatment team are aware of any exceptions to coverage

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Social Work, Psychology or similar field of study Required
• Master's Degree Social Work, Psychology or similar field of study Preferred

Licensure/Credentialing

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) (Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania State Licensing Board  Preferred or
• Licensed Social Worker (LSW) (Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania State Licensing Board Preferred 

Experience Qualifications

• At least five (5) years (with a Bachelor's Degree) experience in utilization review in healthcare is Required and experience in psychiatric utilization review preferred or
• At least two (2) years (with a Master's Degree) experience in utilization review in healthcare Required and experience psychiatric utilization review preferred or

Skills and Abilities

• Adhere to departmental policies, procedures, and objectives (Required proficiency)
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary, heath care setting (Required proficiency)
• Ability to develop and maintain professional relationships with external stakeholders, inclusive of payor representatives (Required proficiency)
• Engages in self-performance appraisal, identifying areas of strength as well as areas for professional development (Required proficiency)
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and work with multiple programs (Required proficiency)
• Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing (Required proficiency)
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment (Required proficiency)
• Knowledge of hospital and community resources (Required proficiency)
• Performs other related duties as assigned (Required proficiency)

To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, CHOP employees who work in patient care buildings or who have patient facing responsibilities must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive an annual influenza vaccine. Learn more.

Employees may request exemptions for valid religious and medical reasons. Start dates may be delayed until candidates are immunized or exemption requests are reviewed.

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Position Location (City, State):
Des Moines, Iowa

Contact Name:
Cathy Beck-Cross

Email:
Preferred
[email protected]

Position Title:
MSW Assistant Professor of Social Work - Tenure Track

Job Type:
Full-time

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Candidates must have a master’s degree in social work (MSW) from a CSWE-accredited program. Candidates must have at least two years post-master’s social work degree practice experience. Candidates must be able to teach courses across the social work curriculum at both the MSW and BSW level, although principal assignment will be to the master’s program. Must be willing to teach in face-to-face and online/blended platforms, during the day and evening, and if necessary, interdisciplinary courses.

Candidates must demonstrate ongoing professional development as teachers, scholars, and practitioners through activities that support the program’s missions and goals. Candidates must also demonstrate a commitment to advising and student engagement to support academic success.

Candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The candidate must have proven ability to work with colleagues and students from diverse backgrounds and identities in an ethnically and culturally diverse campus community. Applicant’s letter of interest must include a statement regarding specific efforts to cultivate a more diverse and inclusive educational environment, including specific strategies for embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into curriculum.

DESIRED/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Preference will be given to candidates who will have an earned doctorate in social work or related field by fall 2024. Preference will be given to candidates with experience teaching at the graduate level, and familiarity with face-to-face and blended/online platforms. Special consideration given to qualified candidates who reflect minoritized populations. Interest in teaching macro and research courses a plus.

DUTIES:

The selected candidate will serve as an instructor in the MSW program, teaching courses across the curriculum at the micro, mezzo, and macro level. The teaching load is 12 credits each fall and spring semester, in a combination of face-to-face and blended/online formats carried out in day and evening schedules. Summer teaching may be expected. The candidate will participate in activities serving the department, such as student advising, and contributing to departmental decisions and program development. The candidate will also be expected to engage in scholarship endeavors and participate in activities serving the university and community.

APPLICATION:

To be considered for the position, candidates must submit the following:

1. Letter of introduction
2. Curriculum vitae
3. Statement of teaching philosophy and research interests
4. Copies of all transcripts (unofficial transcripts are satisfactory at this time)
5. Complete contact information for three references

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