Social Worker Team Lead (LCSW), Psychiatric Assessment Services

Social Worker, Team Lead (LCSW) - Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital

2013086

Your Role: Actively participates in the coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the clinical social work staff. Provides leadership and mentoring of staff in order to meet the department's goals and performance standards including quality, service, communication and credo behavior, compliance, finance, throughput and scheduling. Provides operational and clinical social work supervision to the staff in the development of clinical practice, and provision of quality patient care. Practices social work by providing direct services to identified cohort of patients and families.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinates and provides support for all clinical staffing.
• Mentors staff to develop individual and team performance.
• Participates in the evaluation of staff via clinical supervision of staff.
• Participates in the management of resources needed to guarantee quality patient care.
• Resolves patient/family conflicts as they arise regarding the patient/ family experience.
• Provides direct patient care.
• Contributes to the organization by actively participating in process improvement initiatives and shared decision making.
• Supervises Access Specialists
• Assist in the prioritization of utilization management, admissions, and balancing staffing needs across the milieu vs consults vs admissions.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Position Shift:

• FT Variable Shift

About Us:

• Vanderbilt Behavioral Health is a multidisciplinary service within Vanderbilt University Medical Center that offers world-class patient care and excellence in education and research.
• Vanderbilt Behavioral Health, through its inpatient facility Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, is the only inpatient provider of mental health services for children in Middle Tennessee. We offer highly specialized services for children ages 4-12 who have emotional or behavioral challenges and need immediate assistance. Each child's care is supervised by a board-certified child psychiatrist.
• Our adult programs care for patients 18 and older. We offer personalized treatment programs tailored to specific needs such as Psychotic Disorder Program, Mood Disorders Program, Addictions Programs, and the Adult Partial Hospitalization Program.
• Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital is a 106 bed hospital for children, adolescents, and adult patients.

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