Social Worker III - The University of Chicago Medicine

Join UChicago Medicine as a Social Worker III for Healing Hurt People Chicago as part of the Violence Recovery Model within the Urban Health Initiative at the University of Chicago Medicine. Social workers have an integral role in providing the best possible care for every patient during his or her hospital stay and outpatient treatment. Join the Violence Recovery Model as a Social Worker III serving Healing Hurt People. 

Social Workers are at the heart of the Healing Hurt People intervention. This Social Worker III position is generally geared toward internal candidates or returning staff as an investment in professional growth/development for those interested in developing supervisory skills and leadership roles in the program. While Social Worker III will typically begin by supervising interns, community health worker peers, and Trauma Intervention Staff I staff, the role could also include mentoring colleagues at all levels in an area of clinical or administrative expertise, such as data management, cultural humility, resource garnering, and strategic relationship development.

Essential Job Functions

• Psychosocial and Safety Assessments
• Transitions of Care Planning
• Coordination of interdisciplinary interventions
• Crisis intervention
• Supportive counseling around adjustment to illness, hospitalization, and/or outpatient care
• Promote access to hospital and community resources
• Provide intensive case management (ICM) services within the SELF framework. The HHPC model is best characterized as low volume (6-8 clients for SW III); long-term (ideally six months with weekly sessions); and high intensity/acuity due to violent injury and exposure to community violence.
• Complete psychosocial assessments including family, housing, education, medical, criminal justice involvement, mental status, violence exposure, adverse childhood experiences, trauma histories, depression, and PTSD symptoms.
• Provide psychosocial counseling and psychoeducation to promote healing using the SELF framework
• Develop plans of care, in consultation with clients and families, to address safety and symptoms of trauma by increasing connection to school, family, social supports, and needed social services. SW III serves as mentors and partners in assisting clients as they develop skills to navigate systems of care – medical, academic, employment, housing, social service, and mental health – to promote healing and recovery.
•  Document clinical assessments, care plans, and interventions utilizing HHPC’s electronic case management tool and other electronic medical records as appropriate.
• Provide supervision to HHPC interns and TIS I.
•  In partnership with current HHPC supervisors and Directors, further develop and maintain our graduate field education program. 
•  Participate in mentoring/supervisor development activities with HHPC Clinical Director, including reflective supervision as a model.
•   Expand and implement trauma-related training for HHPC, partners institutions and programs as well as collateral service providers in the Chicagoland area (e.g., rehabilitation programs, probation officers and judges in the juvenile probation system)  
•   Do additional work/training in curriculum development and teaching/learning/motivational strategies for adults

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Social Work from a School of Social Work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education
• Licensed Social Worker (LSW) in Illinois
• Post-graduate supervisory experience and professional licensure (e.g., LCSW, LCPC)
• Two to five years post-Master’s experience
•  Demonstrated skill/capacity/interest in professional growth and development toward supervision
•  Knowledge of HHPC’s target populations
•  Experience screening and assessing adults, children, and families in a therapeutic framework

 Comfortable with outreach activities in high traffic, high stress environments

  Must have a valid driver’s license and a vehicle available for community work

• Self-motivated, organized and comfortable in a fast paced, dynamic environment
• A Collaborative, solution-focused, team player to help facilitate safe patient outcomes and contribute to institutional goals
• Previous clinical social work experience in a health care setting of at least one year
• Licensure in Illinois

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous clinical social work experience in an acute care hospital setting
• Prior experience providing case management services
• Knowledge of formal and informal organizations in clients’ communities
• Bilingual Spanish/English

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Full Time - 1.0 FTE
• Shift: Day - 8-hour shift
• CBA Code: Non-Union