Clinical Social Worker

$5,000 sign-on bonus (pro-rated for part-time employees) for newly hired social workers, budgeted to work 24 hours per week or more!

With approximately 100,300 ED visits annually, the CHA Emergency Departments are fast-paced, constantly changing environments with rapid patient turnover. Clinical Social Workers within the Psychiatric Emergency Service (PES) are vital members of a multidisciplinary treatment team.

Key Responsibilities

• Works closely with nurses, physician assistants, and physicians in a fast-paced, high stress environment, and is under the clinical supervision of the psychiatrist.
• Completes psychiatric assessments, provides crisis counseling, and implements treatment planning for patients in the PES.
• Identifies appropriate resources and obtains collateral information, as needed, from patients’ supports including...