Licensed Clinical Social Worker PRN- Days
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Job Location:
Key West, FL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Why Youll Love Working Here:
Future Security 401(k) with employer matching to help you build long-term financial stability.
Role: Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Location: Lower Keys Medical Center
Schedule: PRN Days with some Saturday Coverage
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 decision-making 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 inter-relatedness 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 follows-up 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 re-admissions to the hospital.
- Manages high risk referrals: Performs discharge planning activities on newly diagnosed cancer patients suspected abuse adoptions high-risk mothers fetal demise long-term 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.
- Maintains a supportive collaborative partner-like 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.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Maintains regular and reliable attendance.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
Qualifications
- Masters Degree in Social Work or Psychology required
- 2-4 years of experience in individual group and family therapies required
Licenses and Certifications
- LCSW- License Clinical Social Worker required
BCLS - Basic Life Support obtained within 7 days of employment required
INDBH
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
For more than 40 years, CHS has been developing and operating healthcare delivery systems committed to helping people get well and live healthier.
