Inpatient MSW (FT, Days)

Essential Responsibilities

• Uses age appropriate assessment and intervention skills.
• Able to use a range of interventions, depending upon the needs of the patient/family.
• Affords members in developing cost effective, appropriate health care plans through optimizing the members personal resources as well as community and Kaiser Permanente resources and programs.
• Promotes multi-disciplinary care that is patient-centered and considers all aspects of members personal, psychological, economic, and cultural needs.
• Maintains thorough knowledge of Kaiser Permanente services/benefits, public/private community resources, as well as federal/state laws which effect health care planning.
• Completes required documentation of services and Social Work plan of care per department policy.
• Participates in program development, orientation, and educational activities which further members capacity to better direct their own health care experience.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum one (1) year of Social Work experience in a hospital, medical outpatient clinic, home health/hospice, or long-term care setting -OR- successful completion of the Kaiser Permanente NW Social Worker Internship program.
• Minimum three (3) years of additional experience in a related environment.
• Education: Masters degree in social work from an accredited university.
• Licenses, Certifications, Registrations: This job requires credentials from multiple states. Credentials from the primary work state are required at hire. Additional Credentials from the secondary work state(s) are required post hire.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of professional Social Work experience in a hospital, medical outpatient clinic, home health/hospice, or long-term care setting.
• LCSW
• Working knowledge of KPNW services and benefits
• Expertise with short term counseling interventions
• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership to a multi-disciplinary team
• Advanced knowledge of local and national resources related to health care.