Social Worker LMSW

About This Role

This Social Worker role involves advocating, assessing, counseling, and supporting individual psychosocial needs and discharge planning for patients with complex medical problems. The role is critical in identifying and overcoming barriers and offering resource options, particularly for chronically ill and end-of-life care. The social worker acts as a clinical care partner, demonstrating empathy and compassion.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessment of patient’s psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing of patient and family members, conferring with interdisciplinary team and reviewing medical records
• Evaluate coping skills, cognitive and intellectual functioning, support systems, resources, other factors that could affect responses to illness, treatment and discharge plan
• Identify barriers and plans for intervention to overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcome as evidenced by treatment plan
• Communicate findings, plan to interdisciplinary team and documents assessment, plan and interventions in medical records
• Provide crises intervention and supportive counseling for individuals experiencing a temporary or situational problem
• Assess cases of suspected elder, child, sexual or domestic abuse or neglect
• Comply with required reporting, according to state law and hospital policy
• Refer patients/families to appropriate community agencies for further intervention or counseling such as palliative or hospice services as needed
• Facilitate family meetings to help with decision making when there is disagreement or lack of clarity around goals of care and plan of care
• Facilitate interactions between staff and DCFS/EPS or other agencies

Requirements

• Master's degree
• Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)

Qualifications

• Master's degree