Social Worker

Full-Time Social Worker

Sunday-Thursday

Position Purpose : Plans, organizes, and implements social work services for patients ranging in age from neonate to geriatrics, with particular emphasis on supporting postpartum mothers, newborns, and pediatric patients . Provides psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, and discharge planning while promoting family-centered care and safe transitions across the continuum of care

Essential Functions (list in order of importance including measures)

• Conducts psychosocial assessments of patients and family members to obtain information about home environment, family relationships, perception of patient's illness and coping resources in order to provide emotional support and discharge planning assistance. Documents same in the patient's medical record. 25%
• Encourages understanding and acceptance of any illness as well as the treatment plan. Along with this he / she gathers pertinent information from medical records, hospital personnel and significant others to formulate a comprehensive discharge and post-hospital plan of care. 10%
• Communicates patient / family issues to appropriate staff members and attending physicians. Participates in team and / or family conference to provide a succinct discharge plan to the team and patient / family.
• Collaborates with patients / significant others and / or physicians on discharge planning, such as nursing home placement, acute rehabilitation placement, home health, transportation, etc. Follows up with insurance verifier to ensure clarification related to patient's insurance coverage. 15%
• Assesses and intervenes in abuse / neglect cases (all ages). Contacts the appropriate agency and provided required documentation in EHR with follow-up as needed. Communicates to the team as needed. 15%
• Participates in the obtaining advanced directive, patient surrogacy forms and end-of-life discussion in collaboration with the patient's provider, surrogate as appropriate. 5%
• Assesses patients with substance abuse / mental health problems.
• Collaborates with all adoption cases and acts as a liaison between hospital and agency as needed. 5%
• Collaborates and assists the patient's provider acting as an advocate for potential guardianship cases. 5%

Marginal Functions (list in order of importance)

General Job Requirements (List any required knowledge, skills, experiences or training, including length of time necessary for proficiency, required to perform the job.)

Reporting Relationship

Positions reporting to this position include : None

Machines, tools, equipment and work aids required : General office equipment ; Other Equipment Includes :