Social Worker - Clinical - LCSW - Pediatric Neurology - FT - Days - MPG

Memorial Healthcare

41d•Onsite

About The Position

Our pediatric neurology practice cares for children with chronic and medically complex conditions that place significant emotional, financial, and logistical burdens on families. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) would be an essential addition to our multidisciplinary team by helping families navigate mental health support, financial resources, therapies, school systems, home health services, and community programs. An LCSW would improve care coordination, support parents and caregivers, streamline access to services, assist our multidisciplinary clinics, and enhance overall patient and family outcomes while also supporting institutional quality measures and expanding access to behavioral health care.

Requirements

Masters (Required)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (SW LICENSE) - State of Florida (FL)
Minimum of two (2) years' post MSW experience in related field required.
Previous experience working in hospital setting.
Requires critical thinking skills, effective (verbal and written) communication skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
Must be able to work in a stressful and fast paced environment and take appropriate action.
Must have strong organizational/priority setting/multi-tasking skills.
Must be able to learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information.

Nice To Haves

ACCOUNTABILITY
ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING
ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING - IT
CLINICAL POLICIES AND STANDARDS
CUSTOMER SERVICE
DEVELOPS RELATIONSHIPS
DISCHARGE PLANNING CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS
INTAKE - BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
PATIENT AND FAMILY CENTERED CARE
PROBLEM SOLVING
RESPONDING TO CHANGE
STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOR

Responsibilities

Participation in transplant selection committee meetings
Provides crisis intervention for patients and family members.
Assist patient in the comprehension of complex instructions, resolve conflicts, or facilities conflict resolution, have strong organization/ priority setting skills, must be able to learn and apply large amount of technical and procedural information, must be able to multi-task, and must be able to communicate effectively, verbally, and in writing.
Attend multidisciplinary rounds as mandated by CMS for all Medicare-approved transplant centers and identifies appropriate resources for financial, insurance, transportation, housing, healthcare, mental health, spiritual services, and education about diagnosis and transplantation.
Consults and collaborates with multidisciplinary transplant providers as mandated by CMS for all Medicare-approved transplant centers to promote, monitor, and evaluate patient's ability to understand and adhere to treatment plan and lifestyle changes.
Make appropriate referrals to community agencies, such as DCF, APS, SSA, CMS, disease specific resources as deem necessary.
Design and facilitate support groups and other programs.
Develop behavioral agreements with patient and/or families that addresses adherence and commitment to treatment plan.
Assist with patient fund-raising
Interviews and assesses patients and/or family, caregivers, and/or legal representatives.
Performs comprehensive psychosocial assessments for pre- post and living donors to determine transplant candidacy and continue to work with patient and family through all phases of the transplant process during inpatient and outpatient and end of life.
Determines, prioritizes, provides and/or arranges for needed internal and external services/interventions.
May supervise and/or train new staff, students, and interns.
On-going clinical transplant education required.
Participation in Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI).