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Overview

St. Luke's Health System in Boise is seeking an onsite, experienced Social Worker to join a new and innovative team!

SLHS is dedicated to quickly addressing issues of suicidal ideation and other psychosocial stressors expressed by patients in the 300+ outpatient medical clinics across the health system. This role will provide on-demand support to these clinics across southern Idaho. In addition, this role will provide direct support to patients enrolled in a service where they received added support for acute and chronic diseases. This innovative position will provide the incumbent with a varied clinical experience of crisis intervention and supportive counseling via virtual functionality.

A successful candidate will be effective in conducting suicide risk assessments, intervening with risk mitigation strategies and familiar with crisis intervention practices. The candidate will proactively develop rapport with the outpatient clinic staff and be effective at fostering bidirectional communication. This position is also a remote patient management role and is the latest evolution of home-based monitoring-connecting patients with a care team tracking warning signs. The ideal candidate will be comfortable providing all services via a virtual platform. Patients have a daily connection with nurses and social workers who monitor vitals and look for behavioral signs such as depression or anxiety. This role is integrated into our Virtual Care team and works directly with a team of professionals.

This position works Monday-Friday 8:30-5:00 PM MST.

Responsibilities

• Completes psychosocial assessments and plans of care for identified patient populations.
• Identify and provide interventions and goals as indicated by the plan of care.
• Provides crisis intervention services to patients, families, and staff.
• Provides consultation to physicians, healthcare professionals, or community partners in understanding psychiatric, behavioral, social, emotional, and cultural factors related to plan of care for the patient.
• Consults with staff regarding clinical situations; assists inter-disciplinary team in dealing with complex, high-risk or difficult psychosocial situations.
• Serves as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and is a liaison with community resources.
• Provides community resource information and referrals.
• May provide individual, group, or family therapy.
• May provide supervision, leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to other clinical staff including co-signature of documentation. May provide counter signature of other's clinical practice.
• If state certified, may provide clinical oversight to staff towards advanced licensure.
• May participate in Third Party billing.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Masters degree in social work.
• Experience: 0 years's experience.
• Licenses/Certifications: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in states of practice

Why St. Luke's

A strong, talented staff is at the heart of St. Luke's Health System. We are the state's largest employer with more than 15,000 employees and a medical staff of more than 1,800 physicians and advanced practice providers. We're proud of our people who deliver skilled, compassionate care every day, and are looking to add dedicated individuals who will continue this same tradition of excellence.

For more information, please contact Julie at leguinej@slhs.org

About Boise

Known as the "City of Trees," Boise is Idaho's capital city--both a cultural center and a playground for those who love the outdoors. A vibrant downtown area affords fine dining, theatre, music, and college and semi-professional sports. Downtown Boise's main attractions include the Idaho State Capitol, the classic Egyptian Theatre, the Boise Art Museum, Julia Davis Park and Zoo Boise. The Greenbelt follows the beautiful Boise River corridor for more than 30 miles, and the Boise foothills are home to miles of hiking and biking trails.

Learn more about what the City of Trees has to offer you:

St. Luke's Health System | Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau | Boise Parks and Recreation | Boise Museum Association | Boise Music Festival | Boise Philharmonic | Downtown Boise Restaurants | Boise Valley Economic Partnership | Hyde Park events | Treefort Music Festival | First Thursdays | Alive After Five | Capitol City Public Market | Runs and Triathlons | Shakespeare Festival | Sawtooth National Forest | Visit Idaho.org

*St. Luke's is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.