What are the responsibilities and job description for the School-Based Health Clinical Social Worker - BMS at Mergenthaler position at BALTIMORE MEDICAL SYSTEM, INC?
If you believe that good medicine has the power to heal our community to its very core, then we invite you to join the Baltimore Medical System (BMS) team, Maryland’s largest federally qualified health center. Here, our teams of professionals are dedicated to delivering something different—healthcare with dignity—a model of care that empowers vulnerable and underserved patients to take control of their health so that they can take control of their lives. Every life you touch here makes our entire community stronger.
Applies specialized clinical knowledge and advanced clinical skills in the areas of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional, behavioral, and developmental disorders, conditions, and addictions in all patients including children and adolescents. Social Work cases are managed on a referral basis, both formal with a written order and informal as identified by the Social Workers themselves or by a member of the healthcare team. Referral sources include the Physician, and/or the Clinical Staff, the patient/family, and/or outside agencies (referral reasons are as defined in the scope of this role description). Demonstrates and develops specialized knowledge and understanding of the patient and his family to respond to their needs for support, information, autonomy, and understanding. Knowledge of theoretical and bio-psychosocial factors is essential. Social, psychological and health factors and their interplay on psychosocial functionally on theories of personality and behavior, ethnic, social, and cultural influences, environmental influences, physical health, impairment, and disability, including mental and emotional controls caused by chronic and terminal illness.
- Student loan repayment eligibility through the National Health Services Corps (NHSC)
- In-house interpreters are available for Spanish, Arabic, Nepali, Burmese, etc. at some of our center locations
