Social Worker, LCSW Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Lennar Foundation Medical Center Coral Gables, FL

University of Miami•Coral Gables, FL

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Integrative Health Services is currently seeking a full time Licensed Clinical Social Worker to work in Coral Gables, FL at the Lennar Foundation Medical Center with Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. The Social Worker, LCSW, provides psychosocial assessments, intervention, and/or treatment and discharge planning to patients and families to assist them in coping with their hospitalization, illness, diagnosis, and/or life situation and meet the continuing needs of patients post hospitalization. The Social Worker, LCSW, administers a broad variety of therapies and is the designated expert, consultant, or source of knowledge within the social work profession.

Requirements

Master’s Degree in Social Work
Certification in relevant specialty or field
Minimum 1 year of experience
Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form.
Ability to handle difficult and stressful situations with professional composure.
Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
Commitment to the University’s core values.
Ability to work independently and/or in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

Provides psychosocial assessments of patients and families to identify emotional, social, and environmental strengths and problems related to their diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or life situation.
Administers a broad variety of therapies and is the designated expert, consultant, or source of knowledge within the social work profession.
Formulates, develops, and implements a plan utilizing appropriate social work interventions.
Collaborates with the health care team and involves the patient/family in the development and implementation of plans.
Facilitates discharge planning across a multidisciplinary care continuum which includes interacting with consulting physicians, third party payer and other health care providers to facilitate movement of the patient through the system and arrangement of an appropriate discharge plan.
Works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary staff to design and implement treatment plans and discharge plans for the patient.
Provides education and counseling to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient's illness and/or life situation.
May utilize crisis intervention, brief and long-term individual, group, and family therapies.
Supervises Master of Social Work (MSW) students.
May function as a resource to other staff as appropriate.
Provides education to other health care professionals.
Participates in or consults on research/education programs.