Social Work Director Inpatient Behavioral Health

You Belong Here.

At MultiCare, we strive to offer a true sense of belonging for all our employees. Across our health care network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers, opportunities for growth, safe workplaces, and flexible schedules. We are connected by our mission - partnering and healing for a healthy future - and dedicated to the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

FTE: 1.0 Shift: days, Schedule: Monday through Friday

Position Summary

The Clinical Director for Inpatient Social Work and Programming has administrative responsibility for the planning and direction of clinical, financial, and operational activities for assigned inpatient and residential units/facilities at MultiCare and Navos. The incumbent designs, facilitates and directs the delivery of care and service to customers including patients, staff, physicians, family members and community representatives; interprets and develops unit/department patient care standards, provisions of quality health services, resource allocation and fiscal management; directs operational activities around social work, therapies, and programing for assigned areas; defines and monitors the standards of practice; assures availability and appropriate utilization of needed human and material resources; supports collaboration within Patient Services and among other divisions and disciplines for desired patient outcomes; provides positive timely customer service, and participates in efforts to achieve organizational goals and objectives. Hospital-based leaders may have a dual matrixed reporting structure.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing, social work, or other affiliate field required
• Master’s degree in Social Work required
• LICSW required
• Minimum ten (10) years recent clinical experience preferably in a mental health/psychiatry setting
• Inpatient hospital experience in a leadership role
• Minimum six (6) years of progressive experience in both a managerial and supervisory capacity

Our Values

As a MultiCare employee, we'll rely on you to reflect our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration, Kindness and Joy. Our values serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.

Why MultiCare?

• Belonging: We work to create a true sense of belonging for all our caregivers
• Mission-driven: We are dedicated to our mission of partnering for healing and a healthy future and the patients and communities we serve
• Market leadership: Washington state's largest community-based, locally governed health system
• Employee-centric: Named Forbes “America’s Best Employers by State” in 2023
• Technology: "Most Wired" health care system 15 years in a row
• Leading research: MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation, 40 years of ground-breaking, clinical and health services research in our communities
• Lifestyle: Live and work in the Pacific Northwest - offering breathtaking water, mountains and forest at every turn.

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $134,465.00 - $193,509.00 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.