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About The Position
The Clinical Social Worker is responsible for performing social work assessments and interventions as needed for inpatients, outpatients, and emergency department patients. They are dedicated to patient and family centered care that values personal self-determination, skilled at managing multiple priorities at once, and engaging in creative, compassionate, and ethical problem-solving. As a member of a multidisciplinary health team, they perform comprehensive assessments and develop treatment plans that integrate the medical, social, and resource issues that impact individual patients, families, and at-risk populations. Clinical Social Workers are responsible for working collaboratively with all healthcare team members to develop and implement treatment plans that support patient-centered plan of care for both individual patients and the medical community. The functions of the Clinical Social Worker include crisis intervention, patient/family intervention, high-risk screening, brief counseling, referring for financial or other identified resource needs, arranging and facilitating family/patient representative meetings with the health care team as needed, assisting in post-acute placement on complex discharges, and engaging appropriate agencies or community resources when high-risk patients are identified. The Clinical Social Worker establishes and maintains professional relationships with physicians, case managers, nursing staff, county agencies, community resources, patients, and families. The position will be required to serve on hospital committees and take part in developing and presenting in-services to Hospital staff.
