Social Worker - Medical Social Services - Per Diem

About the role

The Social Worker supports psycho-social needs of patients who are currently receiving or recently received hospital-based care. The role aims to enhance the optimized level of health and/or recovery, provide interventions for populations ranging from infants to geriatrics, serve as a resource for the healthcare team, assist in identifying discharge planning needs, and provide support/intervention in stressful situations.

Responsibilities

• Provides psychosocial evaluation to meet patient’s medically related social needs.
  • Assessment of the social and emotional factors related to the patient’s illness, his need for care, his response to treatment, and adjustment to care in the hospital;
  • Assessment of the patients’ medical and nursing requirements, home situation, financial resources, and the community resources available in making decisions regarding his discharge.
• Participates in unit interdisciplinary conferences to identify patients and families’ needs of intervention.
  • Identifies problems and develops plan based on evaluation of patient’s needs;
  • Participates in an on-call system 24-hour accessibility and accountability to meet patient needs;
  • Receives training to allow the provision of care and services support resources to trauma patients;
  • Responds to consults as required by policy.
• Facilitate discharge planning to meet the patient’s needs for continued care (i.e. for skilled nursing, rehabilitation, acute care transfer, or other facilities).
  • Identifying psycho-social, environmental and financial problems that affect discharge planning;
  • Collaborates with the healthcare team in establishing discharge plan;
  • Consults with Case Manager as necessary and requested;
  • Keeps patient/family/referring facility informed of plan;
  • Completes appropriate/required documentation related to transfers;
  • Completes documentation on patient status; every 24 hours for acute, every 48 hours for acute for patients with whom we are engaged.
• Documents appropriately to reflect continuous progress in plan of care.
  • Plan of care is documented fully as required;
  • Content reflects adequate details to enable extended members of healthcare team to remain informed and implement plan;
  • Entries are timely and reflect significant interactions/interventions that occur;
  • Handoffs are documented fully by end of each business day;
  • Documentation consists of all required regulatory components.
• Assess and facilitate financial needs.
  • Utilizes various charity funds available in a responsible manner according to policies/procedures;
  • Affords assistance to patients/families with financial applications (PAMA, NYMA, disability paperwork, etc.);
  • Collaborates with Case Manager, Patient Business office, etc. to facilitate meeting financial needs.
• Support patient/family/others during crisis situations.
  • Provide intervention for trauma and other psycho-social crisis situations throughout the hospital;
  • Afford assistance to Clinical Coordinator/others with crisis interventions when on-call;
  • Provide interventions for identified high-risk patients (i.e. abuse, neglect, substance abuse, etc.).

Qualifications

• Minimum two years post-graduate experience as a social worker in a similar type of healthcare setting is strongly preferred.
• Successful completion of a 6-month hospital-based orientation process is required.
• For staff providing care to patients in the state of New York, LMSW, LSW, or LCSW is required.

Skills

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

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