Discharge Planner - Per Diem, Variable (Van Nuys)
About The Position
The Discharge Planner is responsible for delivering social services, including psychosocial evaluation and treatment, advocacy, teaching, referrals to community services, and assistance, as needed, with discharge planning. Interviews patients, makes social assessments, and interacts with families, significant others, physicians, and staff, to obtain information that will assist with patient’s ability to understand his or her medical condition(s). Makes recommendations for additional services upon discharge. Ensures documentation in the medical record is clear and complete. Located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley, Van Nuys Behavioral Health (also known as Southern California Hospital at Van Nuys) is a 57-bed psychiatric hospital that provides acute inpatient and outpatient mental health services on a voluntary basis to adults. As an acute inpatient and outpatient psychiatric facility, Southern California Hospital at Van Nuys provides services designed to help a patient’s psychological well-being. These services include round-the-clock nursing care, daily medical management by internists and psychiatrists, as well as daily group therapy led by social service staff and recreation therapy staff.
Responsibilities
- Delivering social services, including psychosocial evaluation and treatment
- Advocacy
- Teaching
- Referrals to community services
- Assistance with discharge planning
- Interviews patients, makes social assessments
- Interacts with families, significant others, physicians, and staff, to obtain information that will assist with patient’s ability to understand his or her medical condition(s)
- Makes recommendations for additional services upon discharge
- Ensures documentation in the medical record is clear and complete
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
