Senior Social Worker (Medicine Surgery)

Department of Veterans Affairs•Los Angeles, CA

28d•Onsite

About The Position

As a member of a multidisciplinary team, the Inpatient Medicine/Surgery Senior Social Worker will provide a wide range of health services to patients. Provides complex physical, mental health, and psychosocial issues on the inpatient medical/surgical wards and/or clinic area. Will demonstrate advanced practice skills and experience in specialized areas such as medicine and/or mental health, geriatrics, and rehabilitation care. Experience working in a hospital setting is preferred.

Requirements

Experience working in a hospital setting is preferred.

Responsibilities

Assesses and treats the highly complex physical, mental illness and psychosocial issues of patients.
Possesses knowledge and experience in use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures, including acute, chronic and traumatic illnesses, and substance abuse disorders.
Identifies and screens patients for psychosocial needs, to include high risk screening.
Ability to independently implement treatment modalities, provide counseling or psychotherapy, .and conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments.
Possesses the knowledge of assessment, treatment, discharge, and aftercare planning.
Develops and implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in specialty area, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services.
Ability to design changes based on empirical findings.
Participates in planning, organizing, and coordinating social work services in the hospital, and preparing and implementing the referral selection process of veterans to VA programs.
Offers consultation to colleagues on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in specialty areas, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
Demonstrates the ability to teach and mentor staff in the special area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or specialty certifications.