Clinical Social Worker II

About the role

The Clinical Social Worker II provides social work services to patients and their families to assist in meeting psychosocial and clinical needs. Using expertise and experience, this role identifies and serves the needs of patients, both inside and outside the clinical setting utilizing therapeutic and other clinical techniques.

Responsibilities

• Determines which patients to focus clinical social work efforts on to help staff and patients alike be in the correct environment with appropriate social work support.
• Analyzes information from both the patient and clinical staff to understand the patient's situation and communicates this information to all parties to prevent issues arising from information gaps.
• Links patients with community resources and health opportunities based on clinical knowledge and experience to ensure patients receive the highest quality of necessary care.
• Crafts a care plan for patients with minimal assistance from clinical staff to enable the patient to receive the appropriate treatment.
• Educates staff, patients, and families about critical information related to care to improve understanding of the situation and serves as a liaison.
• Provides crisis support and leadership in high-tension situations for staff, family, and patients using clinical expertise to ease concerns and de-escalate worries.
• Provides clinical work services to patients and their families to meet current and future psychosocial and medical needs.
• Completes psychosocial assessments for patients to understand their situation and link them with the most appropriate care options based on medical and social status.
• Utilizes various counseling and therapy techniques to help patients and their families feel at ease regarding clinical and medical work.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Master of Social Work (MSW).
• Minimum of two (2) years of recent experience in a health-related environment.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
• BLS certification.