Licensed Clinical Social Worker- Palliative Care
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Job Location:
Danbury, CT - USA
Hourly Salary:
$ 32 - 59
Posted on:
03-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Description
Nuvance Health is seeking a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Palliative Care
Summary:
Provides clinical services to emotionally ill individuals collaborating with psychiatric and other health professionals for the purposes of quality diagnostic and treatment
Responsibilities:
1. Conducts interviews with patients/family members to evaluate coping abilities dysfunctional adjustments maladaptive behaviors functional status.
2. Establishes objectives and develops patient-focused treatment plans to provide disposition and/or referral. Identifies potential barriers limitations & lack of coping abilities adjustments functional status. Evaluates patients for mental disorders.
3. Provides individual family group therapy crisis intervention and psycho-education.
4. Evaluates for child elder abuse domestic violence and makes appropriate referrals. Acts as a consultant and/or educator to staff relative to assessment criteria & referral.
5. Maintains resume information and refers patients & families to agencies for supportive services & concrete resources (financial assistance; housing; transportation; medications) on regular & emergency basis.
6. Mentors and acts as consultant to peers staff & community.
7. Acts as a liaison for the patients within community (local state and private agencies).
8. Participates in patient care planning policy and procedure development quality performance improvement & projects as assigned by the department manager.
9. Provides coverage for absent (vacation sick etc.) social workers in medical/surgical rehabilitation womens and childrens semi areas emergency & neonatal unit.
10. Completes hospital and state required documentation & other paperwork & forms.
11. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
12. Performs other duties as assigned.
Other Information:
Masters degree in Social Work from an accredited school
Minimum of three years experience
Current Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
PREFER: Experience in assigned specialty area crisis intervention discharge planning DSMIV diagnosis and treatment
Working Conditions:
Manual: significant manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity
Occupational: Significant occupational risk
Physical Effort: Medium to Heavy effort. May exert up to 35 lbs. force
Physical Environment: Some exposure to dirt odors noise human waste etc.
Company: Nuvance Health Med Practice CT
Org Unit: 521
Department: DB Palliative Care
Exempt: Yes
Salary Range: $32.23 - $59.86 Hourly
Key Skills
- Motivational Interviewing
- Acute Care
- Crisis Intervention
- Behavioral Health
- Intake Experience
- Hospice Care
- Case Management
- Home Care
- Child Welfare
- Experience with Children
- Social Work
- Addiction Counseling
About Company
Our hospitals, medical practice and care centers are located throughout New York’s Hudson Valley and Western Connecticut. At every location, you’ll find excellent convenient care, a personalized approach, a connected team, and access to our network of doctors. Find care now.
