Social Work Clinician (Geriatrics) - Social Services - Full-time (1.0 FTE) Days

Stanford Health Care • Palo Alto, CA

9d • $46 - $60 • Onsite

About The Position

The Social Work Clinician will work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team to deliver transitional care services and address the needs of the older adult through assessment of psychosocial issues, social needs, health status, cultural, and economic issues. This is a Stanford Health Care job. The Social Work clinician will work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team to address the needs of the older adult through assessment of psychosocial issues, social needs, health status, cultural, and economic issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related field required.
• Master's Degree in MSW preferred.
• Minimum of 1-3 years of geriatric care experience
• Geriatric certification
• Care management experience and/or certification
• Current California LCSW Required
• Ability to apply theories, principles and practices of medical social work and of social services delivery systems in a hospital or medical center setting
• Ability to gather data needed to needed to assess needs of patients and families
• Ability to manage a caseload, recall case details; maintain confidentiality of information; determine the appropriate course of action in emergencies and other stressful situations
• Ability to provide written case narratives and reports
• Knowledge of and ability to apply effective assessment, interviewing, and counseling techniques
• Knowledge of and ability to apply social work theories, principles and techniques
• Knowledge of hospital and medical center resources to access and provide for patient care needs, and act on behalf of client needs to obtain necessary services
• Knowledge of needs, problems, attitudes, and behavior of hospital patients and their families

Nice To Haves

• Strongly preferred: Minimum of 1-3 years of geriatric care experience
• Geriatric certification
• Care management experience and/or certification

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with clients and family members
• Assessment and re-assessment of the patient, family, and caregiver
• Provide education and training to promote health, well-being, functioning, and self-management
• Conduct risk assessments
• Development of patient-centered goals
• Development of care plan
• Coordination of services
• Collaboration with other healthcare professionals
• Address psychosocial needs and help clients adjust to illness and the challenges of growing older
• Advocate for patients and families, and provide special assistance for cognitively impaired
• Ability to conduct family meetings, address goals of care and quality of life issues
• Competence in advance care planning, experience with bereavement, end-of-life care, DPOA, and POLST
• Adheres to mandated reporting requirements
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care teams to treat and plan for the social and medical needs of patients by consulting with other providers and making referrals.
• Devises, develops and implements treatment-plans as necessary.
• May make a diagnosis as part of a treatment plan.
• Conducts initial assessment of all new patients to evaluate social, emotional and physical needs by applying social work theories and techniques; interviews and evaluates patients and family members.
• Identifies factors which may interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from treatment.
• Develops and implements patient management plans, including the coordination of referrals to specialty and social services, the recording of progress notes and the provision of continuity of care.
• Helps clients cope with environmental and psychological issues of illness by explaining options and treatments as well as making appropriate referrals.
• Manages assigned caseload.
• Prepares and maintains records and makes written and oral reports to document case activity concerning patient care, counseling and therapeutic activities in accordance with department, hospital, medical center and/or health system policies.
• Prepares reports and other documents concerning patients.
• Participates in monitoring and evaluating the quality and appropriateness of patient care.
• Provides supportive counseling, grief counseling, crisis intervention and other appropriate therapeutic services to assist patients and families in coping with presenting symptoms and problems such as, for example, coping with illness, accepting medical recommendations, and loss of function.
• Provides education to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient's diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation.

Benefits

• Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery. You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective: Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

What This Job Offers

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