Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Sentara Health · Woodbridge, NJ · 1 wk ago
Full-time
About the role
The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) will participate as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team to establish comprehensive and integrated plans for each patient. This role involves both delivering clinical services and making referrals to appropriate community resources and other professionals.
Responsibilities
- Participates in the assessment of social, psychological, cultural, environmental, and financial situations, as well as disposition needs, for each assigned patient.
- Provides individualized care to address the needs of the patient and family, including physical, psychological, socio-cultural, spiritual, and cognitive needs.
- Collects and reviews patient-specific data to perform patient assessments and communicate these assessments appropriately.
- Assesses patient/family learning needs, plans and provides education, and evaluates the effectiveness of teaching to achieve desired outcomes.
- Includes patients and families in planning care and evaluating programs and outcomes.
- Demonstrates effective use of the social work process to deliver individualized care to patients.
- Plans care based on the assessment, evaluates patient progress, and revises care to attain expected outcomes.
- Identifies and responds appropriately to ethical issues in patient care, providing support in a non-judgmental manner that respects patient diversity and acknowledges patients' rights.
- Integrates principles of age-specific care into all aspects of practices.
- Provides clinical intervention, consultation as a member of the multidisciplinary team, and crisis intervention services.
- Facilitates referral to other psychiatric/psychological professionals and community resources/agencies as needed.
- Provides individual, family, and group counseling as needed.
- Regularly participates as a member of the multidisciplinary team, including attendance at rounds.
- Develops and implements a patient plan of care to address identified psychosocial problems or needs.
- Makes regular monitoring of the progress of the plan, evaluates outcomes, and modifies the plan as needed.
- Provides bereavement counseling for patients, families, and members of the staff.
- Regularly provides consultation to the other members of the professional team related to identified problems or issues.
- Identifies patients who are at high risk for non-compliance or failure to adhere to the prescribed regimen and develops and implements a comprehensive plan.
Requirements
A minimum of 2 years of social work experience is required.
Qualifications
A master's degree in Social Work is required.
Skills
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) certification is required.
Benefits
- Caring For Your Family and Your Career
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
- Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
- Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
- Emergency Backup Care
- Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
- Life Insurance
- 401k/403B with Employer Match
- Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
- Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000 Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
- Pet Insurance
- Legal Resources Plan
Pay
Details about pay are not specified in the provided information.
Schedule
Hybrid work opportunity available after an initial training period and once a caseload is established.