Medical Social Worker

Tmt-Usa • Honolulu, HI

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Serves as an integral member of the emergency department/CDU care team. Provides psychosocial assessments, coordination and implementation of age-appropriate social medicine services to meet the needs of patients/families/significant others in the emergency department and CDU. Provides medical social work services including assessment, care planning, and case coordination to patients and their families. Provides consultation to staff and other health care providers. Initiates social work plan of care. Connect with the community to integrate services, coordinate care for clients, and enhance relationships through public relations activities.

Requirements

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Hawaii) OR Licensed Social Worker (Hawaii).
• Basic Life Support within 0.5 months of hire from American Heart Association.
• Master's degree in Social Work.
• Minimum one year experience in the health care setting.
• Healthcare experience working with medical diagnoses.
• Demonstrated ability in networking with community agencies.
• 1 year of medical inpatient social work experience.
• Ability to work as an Individual Contributor.

Responsibilities

• Participates as a member of the ED/CDU care team providing social medicine expertise in response to care team referrals and case finding of high need populations (e.g. new diagnosis, terminal illness, loss of function, lack of social support, grief and bereavement, homeless, complex finances, etc.)
• Completes psychosocial assessments of patients in ED/CDU.
• Identifies psychosocial needs, develops, and implements a plan of care.
• Documents according to departmental standards, Federal and State regulations.
• Assures medical record documentation of patient interaction and related tasks performed in a timely manner.
• Upon ED/CDU referral or case finding, assists patients and their support system (e.g. friends, family) with coping strategies related to illness.
• Conducts social medicine consultation and assistance for cases involving abuse, neglect, advance care planning, and legal decision making (e.g. guardianship)
• Provides information and referrals to community resources for post discharge support.
• Applies knowledge base, theoretical concepts, specific functional skills, and essential social values used to effect change in human behavior, emotional responses, and social conditions.
• Contributes to the patient discharge planning process by assessing patient and support systems choices and educating them on the risks and benefits of their choices to facilitate discharge.
• Assists in coordination of discharge plan and assures patients placement in appropriate community-based settings from ED/CDU.
• Provides information, resource identification and referral services, mediation services, advocacy services, and education to patients and their support system.
• Plans for and participates in development activities to keep abreast of current trends in medical social work.
• Participates in performance improvement.
• Implements Quality Improvement processes.
• Assists with development and implementation of departments annual work-plan.
• Performs clinical record audits.
• Maintains educational record and provides evidence of competency.
• Participates in departmental functions such as staff meetings, staff in-services, and committees, as assigned.
• Participates in orientation of new personnel.

What This Job Offers

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