Social Worker

Position Requirements

Overall Position Summary and Objectives	Min Education	Resume Max Pages
The position will independently provide support services to satisfy the overall operational objectives of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)	Master's	3

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Additional Qualifications

Certifications & Licenses - Master's degree in Social Work and three years experience	Field of Study - Social Work
Software - MS Office	Skills - Experience with a psychiatric clinical setting - Knowledge of screening for psychiatric disorders and suicide risk - Experience outreach and recruitment for research studies

Work Location

IC: NIMH		Street: 10 Center Drive		Bldg: Building 10			Room: 7-5350
City: Bethesda				State & Zip: MD 20892
Work Hours
Weekly Hours	FT: 30-40 hours per week		# Of Hours				40

Statement of Work Details

Assists in coordinating and planning programs to meet the social and emotional needs of patients and patient's families.

• Develop a treatment plan based on assessment of psychological social and medical realities designed (1) to enhance the validity of the research and (2) to assist patients in making optimal hospital adjustment for requisite time of the study and arrange adequate discharge planning.
• Identify, make recommendations and provide referral to a wide variety of community resources in order to facilitate continuity of patient care and enhance ability to cope with illness and research participation.
• Develop recommendations and plans for the use of agency resources and community resources and services as appropriate to the needs identified.
• Communicate with insurance companies and health care facilities to identify possible resources for continuity of care.

Screens patients for protocol and clinical trial participation.

• Assess and make recommendations to the physician about patients in pre-admission or admitted status as to their ability to tolerate research protocols and separation from the home environment.
• Conduct structured interviews for collection of research data in off-site locations such as private home visits or community centres.
• Conduct screening and baseline evaluations in collaboration with staff.
• Perform recruitment, screening, evaluation of patients and their families for research protocols.
• Evaluate patients' suitability for protocols.
• Conduct diagnostic interviews and collect family history information; meet with staff to determine inclusion or exclusion.- Coordinate patient recruitment across the three research groups in order to facilitate research on depression, bipolar disorder, and suicide in adolescents and adults.
• Liaison with staff at local hospitals and other clinical care facilities; conduct in-services with staff at local hospitals; attend meetings with staff at local hospitals; distribute recruitment materials to staff at local clinical care facilities; review the medical records of prospective research participants to ensure eligibility and appropriateness for research participation; and educate potential participants about research studies 3

Assists in administering and scoring of clinical interviews and assessments.

• Perform research diagnostic assessments and ratings on patients.
• Administer and score a wide range of complex structured and semi-structured interviews.
• Perform standardized clinical ratings to assess treatment response.
• Conduct screening and baseline evaluations in collaboration with staff medical and other research staff.
• Perform individual and family supportive educational counselling about patient psychiatric illness and effective ways to manage.

Documents assessments in medical records.

• Document all patient contacts and interventions in accordance with Social Work Department Policies and Procedures.
• Comply with agency and departmental standards for documentation of patient work and data collection for performance improvement and workload tracking.
• Document research and clinical findings.
• Perform document research and enter and analyze data.

Conducts interviews with subjects and their families.

• Provide education regarding adjustment to illness and managing protocol related logistics.
• Gather selected information through in-person and phone-based interviews, medical record review and consultation with interdisciplinary team members.
• Develop a recommendation and plan to address areas of identified need and provide ongoing care to help participants and families access needed services.
• Identify possible resources and services for which research participants/families may be eligible.
• Explain eligibility criteria and discuss needs, educate resource participants about agency and community resources and services for which they are eligible.
• Conduct preliminary evaluation of potential probands through telephone interviewing of parent, review of medical records,
• consultation with treating professionals and consultation with medical staff, leading to acceptance for on-site evaluation or rejection with referral if indicated.
• Develop and implement strategies to recruit patients for research protocols and meet with potential participants and families to explain objectives, procedures, eligibility requirements, benefits and risks.

Coordinates patient and family care with clinical centre staff.

• Provide short term counselling related to adjustment to illness and protocol participation.
• Address and follow up on problems requiring clinical social work services, including behavioral health needs and/or coping difficulties impacting the ability to access services; refer case to supervisor as necessary.
• Provide clinical support to patients and families throughout the time they are participating in research protocols.
• Make recommendations for appropriate discharge plans, including psychotherapy, community services involvement, special education and activity programs.

Participates in research group meetings and makes recommendations in the decision-making process regarding inclusion in studies and diagnosis.

• Recruit and screen patients for projects in the unit.
• Participate in research group meetings and in the decision-making process regarding patient inclusion in the studies, patient and parent diagnosis, and patient and family management throughout participation in the research protocol.
• Liaison with research groups to assess recruitment needs and eligibility criteria for research studies; attend recruitment meetings across research groups