Licensed Clinical Social Worker
About The Position
Why You’ll Love Working Here: $5000 Sign on Bonus Comprehensive Health Coverage – Medical, dental, and vision plans to keep you and your family healthy. Future Security – 401(k) with employer matching to help you build long-term financial stability. Educational Assistance – Tuition Reimbursement- because we invest in your future. Monthly Housing Stipend - up to $499/ month Competitive Pay & Full Benefits – A salary and package designed to reward your expertise and dedication. Role: Licensed Clinical Social Worker This is for our Intensive Out Patient Program (IOP) - Patients come 3X/ week for 3 hours per day Location: Lower Keys Medical Center Schedule: - FULL time Days (40 hours per week) 7am-3:30pm- rotating Saturdays Job Summary The social worker provides professional services to patients and families, which facilitates the use of individual, public and private resources so that optimal functioning can occur for both the patient and the family. These core services include assessment of psychosocial functioning and capacities, counseling for care planning and decision-making, social work treatment and community resource planning. Social workers collaborate with many disciplines, programs, departments and organizations in the accomplishment of these duties.
Requirements
- Master's Degree in Social Work or Psychology required
- 2-4 years of experience in individual, group, and family therapies required
- LCSW- License Clinical Social Worker required
- BCLS - Basic Life Support obtained within 7 days of employment required
Responsibilities
- Conducts Psychosocial Assessments for Adolescent, Adult, and Geriatric patients as well as neonatal, Infant, and Pediatric patients.
- Determines inter-relatedness of psychosocial factors and health status/disease process.
- Identifies emotional, social and financial needs of patient/family and provides assistance/referrals as appropriate.
- Identifies appropriate treatment plans and follows-up with discharge planning team.
- Acts as expert in the area of Social work.
- Assists Social Workers with problem cases.
- Provides emotional support to patient/family.
- Helps families/patients cope with illness, disability, and situations.
- Facilitates patient/family support groups (i.e. Cancer, Stroke and AIDS).
- Participates in interdisciplinary discharge planning process: conducts and documents proactive, concurrent discharge planning assessments.
- Implements discharge plans, i.e., setting up home health, transfers to other facilities, initial nursing home placements.
- Assists in Quality Improvement Initiative: monitor and trend re-admissions to the hospital.
- Manages high risk referrals: Performs discharge planning activities on newly diagnosed cancer patients, suspected abuse, adoptions, high-risk mothers, fetal demise, long-term acute placements, ER, Psych transfers, HIV/Aids and hospice patients.
- Assist Case Management to move patients to more appropriate level of care.
- Promotes effective communication and ensures continuity of care.
- Verbal communication with patients, families, hospital staff are always positive, accurate, supportive, and clearly understood.
- Maintains a supportive, collaborative partner-like relationship with nurses, physicians, and case management team.
- Consistently performs all social service function to meet department volume and quality standard.
- Effectively communicates to supervisor status of current workload daily.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Maintains regular and reliable attendance.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
Benefits
- $5000 Sign on Bonus
- Comprehensive Health Coverage – Medical, dental, and vision plans to keep you and your family healthy.
- Future Security – 401(k) with employer matching to help you build long-term financial stability.
- Educational Assistance – Tuition Reimbursement- because we invest in your future.
- Monthly Housing Stipend - up to $499/ month
- Competitive Pay & Full Benefits – A salary and package designed to reward your expertise and dedication.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
