Social Worker - LCSW

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with colleagues and other members of the inter-disciplinary team to determine a safe and appropriate post-acute plan for patients.
• Completes psychosocial assessments and works with patients and families to facilitate these discharge plans.
• Provides crisis intervention/counseling for patients and families around a multitude of complex issues, including but not limited to issues of health, illness, dying, new diagnosis, homelessness/housing, fetal demise, developmental delays/birth defects in children.
• Provides drug and alcohol counseling and connects patients and families to appropriate community referrals and resources.
• Provides assistance and planning around Advance Directives, as well as assistance surrounding issues with insurance.
• Provides on-going assessments of personal needs, provides counseling, referrals and connection for assistance with; rent, utilities, medications, medical supplies, clothing, food, diapers, formula, etc.
• Consulted for cases of abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and sexual assault, provides counseling and connection with appropriate community support/resources and makes appropriate reports to state agencies.
• Completes on-going and timely documentation in the Electronic Medical Record.
• Maintains a clinical caseload of patients.
• Participates in daily rounds.
• Maintains open communication with inter-disciplinary team.
• Completes psychosocial assessments and develops safe and appropriate discharge plans.
• Completes on-going screening for abuse, neglect and domestic violence for all ages and takes the appropriate action including reporting incidents to the proper authorities.
• Explores Advance Directives with patients, obtaining them if available, helping to complete if appropriate, and ensuring that once completed/obtained they become part of the Medical Record.
• Provides motivational counseling and develops interventions and/or makes referrals for alcohol/substance abuse cases.
• Insures timeliness of documentation of all interactions, interventions and outcomes.
• Completes required forms and assures that confidentially is maintained at all times.
• Participates in program development, performance improvement, and special projects and provides consultation to other departments and staff.
• Consults with Manager for problem solving and meets for supervision as scheduled.
• Maintains knowledge of current developments in the field through continuous training and education, and completes required CEU’s.
• Completes required continuous training and education, including department specific requirements.
• Demonstrates professional work ethic by following Service Standards and Success factors.
• Complies with departmental organizational policies and procedures and adheres to external agency requirements.

Qualifications

• LMSW required, LCSW preferred.
• Requires working knowledge of Medicaid and Medicare/health care financing.
• Work requires the analytical ability to collect information from diverse sources, apply professional principles in performing various analyses, and summarize the information and data in order to solve problems.
• Work requires the ability to prepare detailed assessments of patient referrals, conduct individual or family meetings, or perform other duties requiring a comparable level of communication skill.