Social Worker PRN – Week Days

Social Worker PRN – Week Days

Requirements

• Must be a graduate from a school of Social Work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education with MSW preferred.
• At least three years in a similar-sized health-care setting is desirable.
• Working knowledge of community resources and capability of handling heavy caseloads with numerous interruptions/demands.

Responsibilities

• Provides clinical social work services for patients and their families.
• Responsible for psychosocial assessment, discharge planning for patients with complex psychosocial and medical problems.
• Completes psychosocial assessment, develops plans, carries out interventions for patients identified through referral and case finding to have psychosocial risk factors.
• Prioritizes timely response to referral based on urgency of need.
• Conducts assessment of patient’s psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing of patient and family members, conferring with interdisciplinary team and reviewing medical records.
• Evaluates coping skills, cognitive and intellectual functioning, support systems, resources, other factors, that could affect responses to illness, treatment, and discharge plan.
• Identifies barriers and plans for intervention to overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcome as evidenced by treatment plan.
• Communicates findings, plan to interdisciplinary team and documents assessment, plan, and interventions in medical records.
• Provides short term supportive counseling for individuals experiencing a temporary or situational problem.
• Performs assessment for cases of suspected elder, child, sexual or domestic abuse or neglect.
• Complies with required reporting, according to state law and hospital policy.
• Refers patients/families to appropriate community agencies for further intervention or counseling services as needed.
• Facilitates interactions between staff and DCFS/EPS or other agencies.
• Acts as active team member in the discharge planning process and assures patient is referred to appropriate social and financial resources post discharge.
• Identifies patients in assigned caseload with complex social and medical issues through case finding and referral process.
• Reviews caseload with Manager to share findings, needs, barriers, and progress to discharge.
• Evaluates financial assistance needs and eligibility and directs patients/family to appropriate community agencies which can assist in meeting financial needs, or providing food, shelter, transportation, or other services.
• Maintains a working knowledge of payor reimbursement requirements for post hospital services.
• Maintains a working knowledge of available community resources by establishing a relationship with liaisons and admissions staff at agencies and facilities in the region.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Advance Directives and patient rights.
• Ability to counsel/educate patients/families regarding patient rights, decision making and formulating Advance Directives.
• Facilitates family meetings to help with decision making when there is disagreement or lack of clarity around goals of care and plan of care.
• Links patient and families to available resources in hospital and community to provide ongoing support such as Hospice and Palliative Care.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least three years in a similar-sized health-care setting is desirable.