Clinical Consultant Social Worker (MSW/LSW)
Job Description Summary
This position ensures organizational excellence related to customer service and quality of care while promoting excellence in the cultural experience at assigned hospital. This role provides services to patients, families, and significant others, including completing biopsychosocial assessments, implementing treatment plans, and discharge planning.
Responsibilities And Duties
30% Clinical Assessment: Conducts patient/family/significant other interviews, chart reviews, and professional collaboration to obtain and interpret information pertaining to patient/client biopsychosocial functioning. Develops care plan, including discharge plan, incorporating medical plan of care. Participates in identification of cases of abuse, neglect or exploitation and refers such cases to the legally mandated authorities when applicable. Provides crisis intervention, information and referral and linkage to community resources as needed.
30% Intervention Management: Develops a plan of intervention based upon assessment to resolve identified problems and/or to support and enhance biopsychosocial functioning. Through individual, family, or group modalities, employs clinical intervention skills including, but not limited to, treatment planning; continuum of care planning (including discharge planning); supportive counseling; crisis intervention; specialized problem oriented planning and intervention; and educational counseling.
25% Population Management: Staff is accountable for coordinating clinical and financial outcomes of an assigned population. Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary staff and external organizations to achieve timely, cost effective management of patient care. Monitors for quality and type of services delivered to patients, ensuring management within established parameters. Functions as a liaison to the payer to manage the post-discharge financial resources and ensure expected treatment process, progress and discharge plan. Monitors and ensures completeness of all assigned patients in areas of treatment plan and timely reports.
10% Documentation and Regulatory Compliance: Thoroughly documents assessments and interventions in patient’s medical record and information systems in accordance with department standards. Complies with internal and external documentation requirements as related to specific patient/system needs and regulatory requirements.
5% Maintains awareness of current hospital, community services and appropriate care options that can assist patient/clinical biopsychosocial functioning. Provides information as well as facilitates successful linkages between those services and the patient/client.
Minimum Qualifications
Masters Degree: Social Work (Required)
DL-HC - Driver's License only if in a Home Care department
Department of Motor Vehicles, LSW - Licensed Social Worker
Social Work Certification and Licensure Board
Masters degree in Social Work or a related field and LSW license in the State of Ohio
1-2 years’ experience as an LSW, preferably in a patient-centric setting
Knowledge of medical terminology and computer skills