Social Worker - Emergency Department

Requisition #:

3429

Location:

Johns Hopkins Intrastaff,
Columbia,
MD 21044

Category:

Allied Health/Clinical Professional

Requirements

• Responds in a timely manner to requests from Emergency Department Physicians for psychiatric Consultation.
• Performs psychiatric assessment, formulates diagnosis, and in consultation with referring physician recommends and completes appropriate disposition.
• Discusses case with Attending Physician to determine if the patient has been cleared medically and to determine why a consult is requested.
• Provides requesting physician with results of assessment and disposition plan.
• Reviews chart, and obtains all insurance authorizations necessary before providing service to a patient.
• Contacts necessary insurance providers and obtains authorizations needed to complete disposition and documents in the chart.
• Interview the patient and performs psychosocial assessment, mental status examination, and past psychiatric history.
• Contacts family or any collateral informants necessary to provide information necessary to complete an assessment.
• Formulates an appropriate treatment/disposition plan for the patient.
• Develops a knowledge base of the Mental Health Service System necessary to make the most appropriate clinical disposition.
• Effectively troubleshoots all systems when problems arise in effecting a clinically necessary disposition.
• Assures that all appropriate documentation is complete according to standards to carry out treatment/disposition plan.
• Completes all contacts necessary to arrange for appropriate disposition of cases and independently resolves problems with complicated dispositions.
• Is aware of time constraints of patient flow in the emergency department and paces accordingly, and consistently evaluates all patients during a shift.
• Provides appropriate sign-out either verbally or written on clinical and disposition status of patients to next shift staff member.
• Works as a Team Member with all members of the Evening/Weekend Emergency Consultation team.
• Attends all Staff meetings and administrative meetings as assigned.
• Develops and maintains a collegial working relationship with all ED Staff.

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