Clinical Social Worker-GIM ED-Addiction Consult Team
Position: Clinical Social WorkerDepartment: General Internal Medicine ResearchLocation: Boston, MASchedule: 40 hours per week, On-sitePOSITION SUMMARY:The Emergency Department Addiction Consult Team (ED-ACT) is an interdisciplinary consult service comprised of attending addiction physicians, advanced practice practitioners, social work staff, and patient care coordinators. The service provides consultation in the emergency department (ED) for patients who use drugs to improve evidence-based treatment, care coordination, and linkage to treatment. The social worker is an integral member of ED-ACT and will conduct substance use disorder screenings and assessments on patients, methadone dose verifications, and provide robust case management/discharge planning. Responsible for consulting, assessing, and intervening with high-risk patients regarding the impact/amelioration of emotional and social problems. Duties also include, methadone dose verifications/opioid treatment program direct admissions & guest dosing, referral and linkage to outpatient addiction treatment, social determinants of health assessments and care coordination, bio-psychosocial assessments to assist with care transitions and discharge planning, harm reduction counseling, coaching and mentoring of the patients. Will collaborate and communicate with a wide range of social, governmental and legal agencies, courts, outpatient clinics, other hospitals, physicians and other sources in the overall care of the patient.JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:Assesses patient to ascertain those emotional and social problems. Utilizes the department’s psychosocial assessment tool as a guideline.Conducts brief intervention support with patients for whom it is indicated.Conducts substance use disorder screenings and assessments among ED patients to inform the development of patient risk reduction, diagnosis, and treatment plans by the ED-ACTWork collaboratively with Opioid Treatment Programs to confirm methadone doses for ED patients and to assist with linking patients to OTP when patient navigator unavailable: methadone dose verifications, direct admissions, guest dosingCollaborative case management and safe discharge to reduce the number of patients who leave ED without being seen and formulate successful discharge plans that link patients to outpatient prevention and treatment care, as well as, reduce the likelihood of ED-representationOutreaches to families, emergency contacts, and support network of hospitalized patients with addictions, as needed.Identifies those issues which must be addressed during the patient’s care, and develops a plan using a team-based approach that takes into account the patient’s goals (and patient’s guardian’s goals, when appropriate).Utilizes Social Work technique and theory to assist patient and family in coping with illness or social problem to achieve improved functioning and emotional state.Reports any and all suspected cases of abuse and neglect and follows up to ensur...