About This Role
This casual Social Worker II Flex position involves collaborating and participating in the coordination of screening, assessment, and discharge planning for high-risk patients and their families. The role focuses on promoting seamless and safe discharge throughout the continuum of care, utilizing expertise to achieve optimal clinical outcomes within effective resources and timeframes.
Responsibilities
- Provide discharge planning and psychosocial interventions to patients and their families
- Identify patient's psychosocial and discharge planning needs
- Maintain knowledge of community resources that can provide appropriate interventions to meet patient's psychosocial and/or discharge needs
- Educate patients/families about community resources and involve them in the development of the intervention plan
- Support patient choice through education of patient/family about available options/resources and their right to choose their provider
- Document on a regular basis per departmental policies and procedures all progress regarding discharge planning and/or psychosocial interventions, including interactions with patients and family members, available resources, and alternative plans
- Collaborate with other disciplines in the discharge planning process to facilitate coordination of services and resources for patients
- Regularly communicate all pertinent patient/family information to the patient care team
- Provide situational counseling to enable patients/families to reach decisions concerning placement, end of life care, etc.
- Provide social work consults to the Primary Care Center and other outpatient areas/facilities
- Provide on-call coverage
- Utilize crisis intervention skills in assessing patient/family situations
- Maintain knowledge of current community resources to which outpatients can be referred and have the skills to access those resources
- Maintain knowledge of state regulations concerning elder abuse/neglect and domestic violence
- Provide age-appropriate and culturally appropriate patient care
- Maintain knowledge of the growth and development process for infant, child, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients
- Provide assessment and treatment in an individualized manner, consistent with patient's age and developmental level
- Have knowledge and understanding of the cultural and religious preferences of various ethnic groups
- Interact with patients/families respectfully of preferences related to their cultural and religious beliefs
- Participate in specific department activities
- Participate in professional activities to enhance social work skills
- Demonstrate professional conduct
- Respect the privacy and confidentiality of the patient/family as defined by appropriate laws, hospital policies/procedures, professional standards, and/or ethics at all times
