Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW

Northwell • Amityville, NY

9h

About The Position

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) is responsible for providing a comprehensive range of services to patients throughout their length of stay. These services include clinical psychosocial assessment, treatment, and discharge planning. Direct patient care is delivered through individual, family, and group treatment modalities. The LCSW facilitates case coordination by collaborating with multi-disciplined staff, the patient, and external collaterals such as family, school, legal entities, case managers, and managed care organizations across the continuum of care. The primary objective of this coordination is to ensure safe, effective, and solution-focused treatment, delivered at the least restrictive level of care possible.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Social Work
• LCSW required.
• Ability to communicate effectively and follow instructions.

Nice To Haves

• One year experience with case coordination preferred.

Responsibilities

• Uses clinical knowledge of psychosocial dynamics and interviewing techniques to gather psychosocial history information, define presenting problem(s), assess strengths and liabilities, and formulate discharge goals.
• Coordinates development of individualized interdisciplinary treatment plans.
• Coordinates the activities and input of the treatment team members, community resources, and payers to meet the treatment needs of the patients (and families).
• Ensures appropriate resource utilization via utilization review process and conducts timely and efficient concurrent reviews with insurance companies if required.
• Facilitates contact with families and relevant collateral resources to maximize their involvement and understanding of treatment goals/discharge criteria.
• Provides individual, family and group treatment.
• Actively participates in treatment meetings.
• Documents assessments, interventions, and discharge-planning process in a clear, concise, and timely manner.
• Evaluates patient response to treatment.
• Coordinates discharge plan with patient, family, treatment team, case managers, outpatient providers, payer source.
• Develops and maintains cooperative working relationships with community health, welfare and social agencies, and reaches out to the community to develop new resources.
• Assesses, integrates and appropriately uses all information provided by both department and outside contacts which may affect the delivery of services in the health care setting, including new regulations, legislation and clinical data.
• Contributes to service and hospital program improvement by serving regularly and productively on department, service and hospital committees.
• Assists with performance improvement activities and program development.
• Performs other duties, as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees