Social Worker MSW
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Job Summary
The social worker provides professional services to patients and families which facilitates the use of individual public and private resources so that optimal functioning can occur for both the patient and the family. These core services include assessment of psychosocial functioning and capacities counseling for care planning and decisionmaking social work treatment and community resource planning. Social workers collaborate with many disciplines programs departments and organizations in the accomplishment of these duties.
Essential Functions
- Conducts Psychosocial Assessments for Adolescent Adult and Geriatric patients as well as neonatal Infant and Pediatric patients.
- Determines interrelatedness of psychosocial factors and health status/disease process.
- Identifies emotional social and financial needs of patient/family and provides assistance/referrals as appropriate.
- Identifies appropriate treatment plans and followsup with discharge planning team.
- Acts as expert in the area of Social work. Assists Social Workers with problem cases.
- Provides emotional support to patient/family. Helps families/patients cope with illness disability and situations.
- Facilitates patient/family support groups (i.e. Cancer Stroke and AIDS).
- Participates in interdisciplinary discharge planning process: conducts and documents proactive concurrent discharge planning assessments.
- Implements discharge plans i.e. setting up home health transfers to other facilities initial nursing home placements.
- Assists in Quality Improvement Initiative: monitor and trend readmissions to the hospital.
- Manages high risk referrals: Performs discharge planning activities on newly diagnosed cancer patients suspected abuse adoptions highrisk mothers fetal demise longterm acute placements ER Psych transfers HIV/Aids and hospice patients.
- Assist Case Management to move patients to more appropriate level of care.
- Promotes effective communication and ensures continuity of care. Verbal communication with patients families hospital staff are always positive accurate supportive and clearly understood.
- Social worker maintains a supportive collaborative partnerlike relationship with nurses physicians and case management team.
- Consistently performs all social service function to meet department volume and quality standard. Effectively communicates to supervisor status of current workload daily.
- Attends meetings regularly: attend daily discharge planning meetings with Case Manager. Attend monthly department Meetings and committees.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
Qualifications
- Masters Degree Of Arts in Social Work or related field. required
- 24 years Experience preferred
Licenses and Certifications
- BCLS Basic Life Support required and
- LMSW Licensed Medical Social Worker State Licensure required
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Employment Type
Full-Time
