Director, Family Services

Kids Are Our Everything.

Department

Pay Range

Who We Are: Family Services encompasses Social Work and Pastoral Care

About the Role: Plans, implements, directs and evaluates daily activities of Social Work and Pastoral Care. Facilitates the development, implementation, and reporting and on-going enhancement Social Work, Child Life, Pastoral Care and Interpreter services. Supports interdisciplinary as well as interdepartmental collaborative practice. Manages departmental budget. Fosters positive and professional interpersonal relationships with patients/families, physicians, hospital staff, community agency representatives and visitors.

What You'll Bring:

Minimum Education
Master's Degree Social Work degree (Required)

Minimum Work Experience
7 years Related and progressive experience (Required)
3 years Supervisory experience (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge
Familiarity with software such as Windows environment (i.e., Microsoft Office, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access).
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Knowledge of children's health issues.
Knowledge of cultural issues and their impact on health care.

Required Licenses and Certifications
LICSW licensure (Required)

Functional Accountabilities
Ensures Delivery of effective psychosocial services to patients and families

• Demonstrates understanding of patient/family needs in a complex healthcare system
• Works collaboratively with all members of the hospital community to insure that patient care needs are recognized and addressed
• Recruits, trains, and directs social work, and pastoral care staffs to appropriately address patient are needs and systems issues
• Liaisons with other social workers who do not report directly to Family Services Department, i.e., Child Protection, Psychiatry, special Immunology , Genetics
• Ensures the availability of psychosocial services to families/staff through on-call scheduling
• Ensures appropriate discharge planning interventions by the social work staff and provides recommendations for improvement as needed.

• Ensures patient/family access to appropriate interfaith services-including hospital chapel and bereavement resource

Regulatory Accreditation

• Facilitates Regulatory compliance with licensure regulation and accreditation standards as they related to Social Work, and Pastoral Care
• Manages the Family Services Policy and Procedure Manual to ensure Departmental compliance with new or revised policies

• Maintains statistical information concerning volume, usage, staffing requirements of social work and pastoral care to meet budgetary and regulatory requirements.

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children's National believes an individual's base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children's National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual's combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children's National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The "Know Your Rights" poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here:Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a "drug-free" work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.