Social Worker

Roles and responsibilities

This is a senior clinical social work position that requires a Social Worker with experience in Mental Health assessment and treatment. The ideal candidate should have significant experience working with mental health clients and hold an MSW degree. They should be knowledgeable across various social science disciplines, including human behavior, sociology, psychiatry, and psychology.

Additionally, the candidate should have experience in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness, emotional, and other behavioral disturbances. They should also be proficient in individual, group, and family therapy treatment modalities. Fluency in English is necessary, and bilingual proficiency in English and Arabic is preferred. The role will require shift work.

KEY ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Makes decisions related to the plans of care for women/children.
• Conducts comprehensive biopsychosocial and spiritual clinical assessments and designs a treatment/intervention plan to support patient care.
• Is responsible for department leadership and leading projects, as assigned; responsibilities may include, but not limited to, leading committees/workgroups, facilitating quality improvement projects, mentoring new employees and students, and providing education for staff.
• Makes day to day decisions regarding assessment and interventions that impact patients and families and collaborating staff/colleagues.
• Makes recommendations to the supervisor regarding decisions that have a unit/service impact.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient and family as professionally appropriate.

Essential Function 1
Assesses psychosocial needs, risk, capacity, and design treatment plan to support patient care while promoting patient engagement.
• Implements Clinical Social Work services using evidence-based practice.
• Applies formal and informal assessment techniques to conducts comprehensive biopsychosocial spiritual clinical assessments.
• Maintains knowledge of and comfortability with child protection issues and relevant policy, procedure and legislation concerning children.
• With sensitivity, identifies, assesses and creates treatment interventions for child protection and domestic altercations.
• Creates a case formulation informed by social work theories and practice principles to guide intervention planning and excellent patient care.
• Supports the central role of the family, valuing strengths and needs; with family’s involvement creates mutually agreed intervention goals and objectives that demonstrate patient / family strengths and limitations.
• Supports the patient and their family to understand the nature of treatment by providing education, short-term psychotherapy and crisis intervention.
• Provides psychotherapy with individuals and families focusing on the child’s and family’s holistic needs; including adjustment to diagnosis, treatment decisions, loss of function, and managing the emotional and family crisis in the context of evidence based care.
• Organizes and facilitates psycho-educational and counseling groups.
• Communicates concisely with others, integrating theory and evidence-based practice to obtain and share pertinent information including the social work intervention plan.
• Utilizes effective communication skills in the process of supporting children and families.
• Assumes accountability for monitoring and evaluating biopsychosocial needs as well as discharge planning for each patient, while assessing for current and potential problems.
• Acts as an advocate by empowering women/children and their families to make informed choices by providing them with information and directing to the relevant support services when appropriate.
• Participates in interdisciplinary care conferences, psychosocial rounds, and nursing report to plan interventions and monitor the progress of the Social Work patient list.
• Maintains good interpersonal relations with patients, families, visitors, and other employees, following departmental and hospital-wide philosophy.
• Identifies impairments and alerts members of the medical and specialist teams to changes in medical, emotional, and/or mental status of the patient/family.
• In line with the departmental procedures and professional standards; produces concise, accurate, informative, and timely documentation of all assessments, interventions, and consultations.
• Utilizes a professional practice framework and evidence based care, to identify improvements to minimize risks and produce optimal care for patients and families.
• Demonstrates ability to contend with multiple workload priorities.

Desired candidate profile

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work ( Preferred: Master’s Degree in Social work)
Experience: 5+ years of relevant clinical experience

Certification and Licensure:

• Current registration and license from Country of Origin
• Meets licensing requirements of the State of Qatar

Professional Membership: Member of leading Social Work association in country of origin

Job Specific Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated comprehensive knowledge of Clinical Social Work principles, theories, practice, and Code of Ethics.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best practice of Clinical Social Work.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct and professionally present comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to comprehensively assess and treat the following clinical presentations including but not limited to: child abuse and protection; mental health presentations including depression, suicide, and anxiety; bereavement/grief and loss issues; and crisis management.
• Knowledge of the biopsychosocial needs of children/families with medical, disabling conditions.
• Demonstrated ability to provide individual, family, and group psychotherapies as well as psycho-education/life skills program delivery.
• Knowledge of community resources.
• Ability to present at in-services within the hospital and community.
• Demonstrated problem solving abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to advocate for families as they navigate the health care system.
• Effective teaching, mentoring, and supervisory skills.
• Experience in organizing data and generating thorough, accurate, timely reports.
• Ability to design and implement interventions to meet individual patient and family needs;
• Ability to function as a collaborative member of the interdisciplinary team and communicate; advocate for patient/family needs within this team.
• Ability to effectively supervise staff through positive leadership skills and provide consistent and supportive feedback for personal and program improvement.
• Ability to make leadership decisions to simultaneously provide the best patient care and support hospital-wide strategic plans.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks while working in a busy, fast paced environment requiring high levels of team work, prioritization and cooperation.
• Experience in organizing data and generating thorough, accurate, timely reports.
• Ability to work shift work and on call hours as necessary.
• Effective team member.
• Effective communication skills.
• Leadership skills.
• Motivated and enthusiastic.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
• Fluency in written and spoken English