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Department: Holtz Women's and Children - Pediatric Palliative Care
Address: 1611 NW 12th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33136
Shift Details: Full-Time, Days, weekends and holidays
Why Jackson:Holtz Children's Hospital at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the southeast United States, where UHealth - University of Miami Health System physicians treat children from throughout Florida and the Caribbean. Holtz Children's is known worldwide for its care of critically ill newborns in its neonatal intensive care unit, which is one of the largest in the United States and boasts some of the best medical outcomes. In collaboration with the Miami Transplant Institute, Holtz Children's is one of only three centers in the country that specializes in pediatric multi-organ transplants. It is home to one of only three state-accredited comprehensive children's kidney failure centers and one of the largest pediatric kidney transplant programs in the world. The Children's Heart Center at Holtz Children's is the only comprehensive children's heart program in South Florida. In partnership with the University of Miami, Holtz Children's also trains the most pediatric physicians of any medical center in the southeastern United States.
Summary

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW is professional and supervisory clinical social casework in medical, nursing and convalescent facilities of JHS.
• Employees in this class provide professional supervision over subordinate social workers engaged in direct inpatient or outpatient clinical casework services.
• Related responsibilities include providing advanced professional casework service in complex cases requiring a high degree of skill and mature judgment in evaluating social diagnostic information and arriving at appropriate support measures.
• Some positions in the class participate in the clinical casework training of graduate students in an accredited internship program.
• Incumbents apply considerable knowledge of disease entities and medical or psychiatric terminology associated with a clinical setting in addition to the philosophy, principles and practices of professional social work.
• Work of subordinate social workers is reviewed for adherence to accepted quality standards of social casework.
• May require to conduct social work duties, identify and refer violent crime victims and their families to Thriving Mind South Florida for services in the VOCA Trauma Recovery Network.

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary staff to design and implement appropriate treatment plans, including discharge plans. Provides professional counseling and therapeutic intervention to patients and/or families utilizing treatment modalities appropriate to work with adults and their families. Collaborates with community agencies which provide services for adults and their families.
• Leads or co-leads patients groups as needed. Submits statistical reports as required.
• Participates in orientation and training of social work and interdisciplinary staff. Participates on research projects as required for program planning and evaluation.
• Maintains current knowledge of social work practice including specific knowledge of the bio-psychosocial issues of adults. Participates in Committees as assigned.
• upervises students. Provides coverage as assigned. Participates in hospital, departmental and unit meetings. Provide Social Work Services to patients and/or families.
• Employees that work for the VOCA Trauma Recovery Network may conduct social work duties to identify and refer violent crime victims and their families to Thriving Mind South Florida (contracting as South Florida Behavioral Health Network, Inc.).
• The duties may include but not limited to: provides brief crisis intervention to victims and/or family utilizing appropriate, evidence-based approaches, and assess eligibility for services though Thriving Mind's VOCA-funded Trauma Recovery Network (TRN); Work collaboratively with the TRN and interdisciplinary staff to implement appropriate discharge plans and facilitate warm-handoff referrals to Thriving Mind staff to link to outpatient resources; Participates in project workgroups and meetings as assigned by supervisor and/or TRN Program Director, and performs other VOCA allowable TRN-related duties as required.
• Performs other related duties as assigned. Demonstrates behaviors of service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Expertise).

Experience
Generally requires 5 to 7 years of related experience.
Pediatric experience highly preferred. Experience with counseling children and families highly preferred.
Education
Master's Degree in Social Work is required.
Skill
Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work accurately while meeting multiple deadlines. Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form. Ability to handle difficult and stressful situations with professional composure. Ability to understand and follow instructions. Ability to exercise sound and independent judgment Knowledge and skill in use of job appropriate technology and software applications.
Credentials
Valid Florida Licensure from the Association of Social Work Boards is required. American Heart Association and any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers may be required at the unit level upon hire with at least 6 months validity and maintenance at JHS for the duration of employment.
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