Clinical Social Worker

Lexington Medical Specialists • Columbia, SC

10d • Onsite

About The Position

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer. Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Job Summary
Using interviewing, organizational and networking skills, gathers clinically relevant information and provides psychosocial assessment to assist the healthcare team developing a treatment plan for the patient. Actively collaborates with healthcare team to meet patient care outcome management and system improvement goals. Uses planning, prioritizing and organizational skills to achieve utilization and quality goals.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) from an Accredited Program
• Licensure as an Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice (LISW-CP) in the state of South Carolina
• Experience with psychological assessments (i.e., personality assessments, depression assessments), evaluation, and treatment planning

Responsibilities

• Gathers clinically relevant information and provides psychosocial assessment to assist the healthcare team developing a treatment plan for the patient.
• Actively collaborates with healthcare team to meet patient care outcome management and system improvement goals.
• Uses planning, prioritizing and organizational skills to achieve utilization and quality goals.
• Works in a cooperative manner, which fosters favorable relationships between employees and patients, patient’s families, visitors, fellow employees, the medical staff and outside facilities.
• Accepts chain of command, supervision and constructive criticism.
• Exhibits commitment and pride through personal example.
• Contributes to teamwork and creates harmonious, effective and positive working relationships with others.
• Resolves conflicts and problem solves.
• Demonstrates competence in providing duties within role.
• Demonstrates competence to provide developmentally appropriate assessments and interventions for the assigned patient population.
• Serves as a role model for other healthcare team members.
• Respects patient confidentiality and uses discretion in all interactions regarding patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates receptiveness to change and flexibility in meeting department needs.
• Abides by the Social Work Code of Ethics.
• Conduct psychological evaluations and provide recommendations to the clinical team from a mental health perspective.
• Coordinate, lead and facilitate behavioral workshops.
• Counsel, coach and educate patients and family on lifestyle changes and setting goals to promote behavior change.
• Provide support to patients and education to team members and staff.
• Lead evening support groups with other team members.
• Documents assessment information in the patient’s medical record (EMR).
• Conveys and receives information efficiently to and from patients, families, other members of the health care team and outside facilities and agencies.
• Provides education/consultation to the patient/family and healthcare team.
• Determines comprehension and need for repetition and revision of methods of teaching.
• Uses appropriate channels for reporting progress and/or concerns.
• Consults with attending provider to coordinate care plans for the patient.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement and coordinates/participates in the development and implementation of action plans to make improvements.
• Contributes to patient outcome measurement.
• Participates on teams designed to improve systems based on analysis of data and evaluates outcomes.
• Participates in interdisciplinary patient care conferences.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by authorized personnel or as required in an emergency (e.g., fire or disaster).
• In addition to the above duties, Licensed Social Workers assigned to the Bariatric Program will perform a variety of duties to support and in support of Bariatric Services including contributing to research, quality initiatives and the development of curriculum and services for the behavioral aspects of weight loss programs.
• Participates in Bariatric Team meetings while acting as a patient advocate.
• Develops Bariatric program to assist with maintaining program accreditations.

Benefits

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• 403(b) match plan
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Adoption assistance
• Employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level