The perinatal social worker provides social care to individuals, babies, and families experiencing challenges before, during, and after pregnancy, including through the first year of a baby’s life. Responsibilities include helping families who experience high-risk pregnancies, premature or sick newborns, family conflicts, legal issues, parents with mental health needs, and families in poverty. Duties also include helping parents manage the psychosocial conditions they experience during pregnancy and after birth. Communication, problem-solving, and time-management skills are essential. **Education:** + Master’s Degree in Social Work (required) **Certifications/Experience:** + Three years’ experience in Acute Medical Social Work (Preferred) + Prior experience in perinatal services (Preferred) + Indiana Licensed Social Worker (Required) **General Responsibilities:** The duties of a perinatal social worker include but are not limited to: + Assists patients during the perinatal period by addressing social, physical, and mental health concerns + Maintains active list of community resources and support groups for patient referrals + Assesses unique needs of high risk antepartum patients + Helps families process complex information related to pregnancy and neonatal conditions/diagnosis. + Works with adoption and/or surrogacy agency representatives. Collects and reviews all associated legal paperwork for completeness. Informs nursing staff of the upcoming cases and the individualized birth plan for each. + Help families cope with grief in cases of perinatal loss like stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death. + Assists families who have a parent or child with developmental or intellectual disabilities with communal support and resources. + Addresses perinatal issues that affect the mother, the infant, and their families. + Addresses any mandatory reporting and collaborates with and is liaison between CPS and care team members. + Addresses symptoms of perinatal anxiety and depression. Follows up with patient’s who score high risk on the Edinburgh discharge screening. + Provides individual-centered, culturally competent care practices. + Educates doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals on best practices for individual-centered care. + Enhances healthcare equity, which is related to the social determinants of health. + Facilitates the discharge planning in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary team by coordinating and communicating with the unit based RN CM, members of the care continuum, patient, family, and physician. + Provides information on community resources to assist with financial coverage in coordination with Hospital Financial Counselors as available + Maintains contact with Post- Acute Care Providers and Community Resources Agencies used for referrals. + Oversees hearing screen program and completes necessary state reporting and paperwork. + Performs follow up discharge calls to patients INDBH To apply, please email nickoda_millscuriel@chs.net Equal Employment Opportunity This organization does not discriminate in any way to deprive any person of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of any employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or military or uniformed services, in accordance with all applicable governmental laws and regulations. In addition, the facility complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to: hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. If you are an applicant with a mental or physical disability who needs a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, contact the director of Human Resources at the facility to which you are seeking employment; Simply go to http://www.chs.net/serving-communities/locations/ to obtain the main telephone number of the facility and ask for Human Resources.