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Clinical Social Worker

Employer
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Location
North Carolina, United States
Closing date
24 May 2019

Job Description

Healthy Steps is a national initiative that emphasizes a close relationship between health care professionals and parents to address the physical, emotional, and intellectual growth and development of children from birth to age three. Practices that use Healthy Steps incorporate a Healthy Steps Specialist (HSS), who is a skilled professional that joins the pediatric practice to enhance the well-child visits for families with children from birth to three. In Durham, the HSS works closely with Family Connects Durham to support the development of a continuous, cohesive, community-wide support system that begins at birth and continues to support and engage families through age 36 months. Family Connects Durham is a community-wide nurse home visiting program for all parents of newborns, regardless of income or socioeconomic status. The mission of Family Connects Durham is to increase child well-being by bridging the gap between parent needs and community resources. The HSS provides caregiver support to facilitate the development of attachment, self-regulation skills, and family resiliency and provides child development guidance to high-risk parents and other care givers with the goal of supporting the families in facilitating children’s healthy growth and development. While Healthy Steps is designed to provide support to parents of all social and economic backgrounds, it is particularly important to provide these services in low-income communities where infants and toddlers are vulnerable to the multiple risk factors associated with poverty. A strong background in child development, social work, mental health counseling, psychology, early childhood education or early intervention is an important requirement for this position.

Responsibilities of the HSS

  • Conducts team-based well-child visits with parents and their babies and young children with the physician/pediatric nurse practitioner.
  • Provides consultations with families with babies and young children regarding developmental and behavioral concerns such as sleep, discipline, picky eating, etc.
  • Collaborates with Healthy Steps team to implement all core components of the program including universal child development and Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) screening, making positive parenting and early learning guidance information readily available to all practice staff, and adjusting workflows for optimal efficiency.
  • Will work specifically to create a tiered screening process using both universal screening tools as described above and more targeted trauma focused screening to improve identification of those children at highest risk for toxic stress
  • Provides consultation to medical professionals and all practice staff regarding early childhood development, infant mental health, and trauma-informed practice.
  • Provides referrals and tracks follow-up, as appropriate, to help families make connections to key resources within the community.
  • Maintains extensive databases required to meet Healthy Steps fidelity metrics, including both internal and external referrals.
  • Collaborates with Healthy Steps team to complete annual site reporting to the National Office, which may include analysis of both external database files and EMR data reports.
  • Documents all patient activity and care coordination in patient record.
  • Maintains open communication with medical staff, members of the care team, and community organizations such as Family Connects: Durham.
  • Works closely with pediatric providers around care coordination, goal setting, counseling, coaching, and education about key aspects of a child’s development.
  • May conduct home visits and may accompany families to key medical, specialty, and community agency appointments as needed.
  • May facilitate parents’/caregivers’ groups.
  • Participates in reflective supervision meetings.
  • Participates when appropriate in community-wide early childhood meetings, including, but not limited to, Family Connects: Durham case conferences, Durham County Early Childhood Mental Health Task Force, Local Interagency Coordinating Council, and others in both Durham and Guilford counties.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in psychology, social work, counseling, early childhood, education, or related field highly preferred.
  • Prefer bilingual candidates (English/Spanish)
  • Experience and knowledge about early childhood growth and development, parent– child relationships, child health, infant mental health, and family systems.
  • Experience evaluating the growth and development of infants and children under 3 years of age.

Skills/Abilities

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Demonstrated commitment to working with underserved populations in a community setting.
  • Must be empathic, supportive, and patient.
  • Strong motivational interviewing skills.
  • Ability to work with people of many cultures.
  • Ability to take initiative anda willingness to learn.
  • Ability to work well both in teams and independently.
  • Ability to collect and enter data for program management, evaluation, and reporting purposes.
  • Interest in the use of technology (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.) to improve care quality.
  • Ability to work and travel within Durham County and occasionally Guilford County.

Location Durham

Duke Entity MEDICAL CENTER

Job Family Level 13

Full Time / Part Time FULL TIME

Regular / Temporary Regular

Shift First/Day

Minimum Qualifications

Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging.

Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions:

Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Education

Work requires a Master's degree from an accredited school of social work . Current licensure as a licensed clinical social worker by the NC Social Work and Certification and Licensure Board.

Experience

Three or more years of social work experience in a health care setting or social service agency with one of three years may be social work internship. Two years recent post master's experience in a clinical setting preferred

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