Req #: 231372

Department: DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Posting Date: 06/11/2024

Closing Info: Closes On 03/18/2025

Salary: $6897.00 - $10469.00 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/04/benefits-summary-classified-staff-less-than-half-time-20230701_a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department with over 300 full-time faculty members, over 400 courtesy/affiliate faculty members, 132 trainees and over 300 staff with an annual budget of over $110m. Department faculty provide clinical services in the University of Washington School of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center-Montlake and Northwest and Harborview Medical Center. Faculty members also serve at Seattle Children's Hospital, the Veteran’s Administration Puget Sound Healthcare System, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; which comprise 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites; in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department’s highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest and is the largest program in the United States. We offer 26 graduate medical education programs, including the Psychiatry Residency and Clinical Psychology Intern/Resident programs, 24 subspecialty clinical fellowships (ACGME & Non-ACGME), and required and elective medical student clerkships for 276 students. In addition, our education program runs 6 workforce training programs for mental health practitioners across Washington State and the Pacific Northwest Region.

The Department’s robust research portfolio reached $55 million in grant and contract awards in fiscal year 2023 for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is looking for a one year duration Social Worker (Social Worker 1 - Academic Medical Centers (E S CNU)) for the Trauma Survivors Outcomes and Support (TSOS) research program at Harborview Medical Center (HMC). TSOS currently supports two Harborview level I trauma center-based studies funded through the Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The social worker will provide care coordination and clinical intervention services to injured trauma survivors and participate in health sciences research.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engage in intervention delivery including treatment planning, care management and care coordination, behavioral interventions delivery targeting PTSD and related comorbidities, and other collaborative care intervention activities with study patients.

• Carry a study cell phone to triage and address patient safety-related issues.

• Engage in patient safety monitoring including responding to patient report of suicidality by conducting suicide risk assessment and management calls, documenting outcome of these calls, regulatory reporting, and engaging in appropriate tasks to ensure patient safety in accordance with study policies and procedures.

• Communicate daily with project personnel and notify appropriate research personnel regarding problems or complications reported by participants or sites.

• Participate in team supervision for the study intervention.

• Draft/edit IRB application/modification content, filing IRB communications and approval letters, creating and maintaining tracking databases for invoices and site-specific data, drafting email communications, and filing regulatory paperwork.

• Attend regular project meetings, supervision, and work collaboratively with research team members.

• Enter data and ensure data quality using data management and analysis software such as SPSS, Excel and REDCap.

• Assist in the recruitment of patients for inclusion into the study, conduct informed consent procedures, complete research interviews and utilize recruitment tracking systems.

• Maintain confidentiality of participant records. Prepare summary reports from study data including graphs, tables, charts and illustrations.

• Edit and assist in the preparation of manuscripts, presentations, reports and grants submissions, including text and tables/figures.

• Code qualitative data from study interviews Code standardized patient data interviews for counseling quality Draft and copy edit various professional correspondences.

• Other duties and tasks as assigned. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• A Master of Social Work Degree from a program accredited by the Council of Social Work Education AND six months of experience in a health care delivery system.

• OR Equivalent education/experience.

• Health care experience can include a practicum placement as part of a social work training program and/or employment experience.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.