LCSW - Cancer Center

LCMC Health•New Orleans, LA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is more than a job; it's a life preserver for countless patients. As a Social Worker, you will be the hub of your patients’ multidisciplinary team, advocating, assessing, counseling, and supporting individual psychosocial needs and discharge planning resources for complex medical problems. As your patient’s clinical care partner with expertise in care management, you’ll be a critical asset along the care journey, identifying and overcoming barriers and offering resource options, particularly for chronically ill and end-of-life care. You will remain positive, upbeat, and dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes. In the midst of emotional and physical pain and vulnerability, you’ll be a sanctuary of support and understanding, celebrating small victories. The Oncology service line provides exclusive regional access to Daraxonrasib for pancreatic cancer, advanced robotic bronchoscopy technology, and a growing lung cancer detection program across the system.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) through the Louisiana State Board of Social Worker Examiners.

Responsibilities

Conduct assessment of patient’s psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing of patient and family members, conferring with interdisciplinary team and reviewing medical records.
Evaluate coping skills, cognitive and intellectual functioning, support systems, resources, and other factors that could affect responses to illness, treatment, and discharge plan.
Identify barriers and plans for intervention to overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcomes as evidenced by treatment plan.
Communicate findings and plan to interdisciplinary team and documents assessment, plan, and interventions in medical records.
Provide crisis intervention and supportive counseling for individuals experiencing a temporary or situational problem.
Assess cases of suspected elder, child, sexual, or domestic abuse or neglect, and comply with required reporting according to state law and hospital policy.
Refer patients/families to appropriate community agencies for further intervention or counseling such as palliative or hospice services as needed.
Facilitate family meetings to help with decision making when there is disagreement or lack of clarity around goals of care and plan of care.
Facilitate interactions between staff and DCFS/EPS or other agencies.
Identify patients in assigned caseload with complex social and medical issues through case finding and referral process.
Review caseload with manager to share findings, needs, barriers, and progress to discharge.
Evaluate financial assistance needs and eligibility and directs patients/family to appropriate community agencies that can assist in meeting financial needs, or providing food, shelter, transportation, or other services.
Maintain a working knowledge of payor reimbursement requirements for post-hospital services and community resources.
Demonstrate knowledge of legal rights, advance directives, and patient rights with the ability to counsel/educate patients/families regarding patient rights, decision making, and formulating advance directives.