Social Worker LMSW - UMC Social Services

LCMC Health-posted 2 months ago
New Orleans, LA
501-1,000 employees
Hospitals
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As a Social Worker, you're the hub of your patients' multidisciplinary team advocating, assessing, counseling, and supporting individual psychosocial needs and discharge planning resources for complex medical problems. You are a critical asset along the care journey identifying and overcoming barriers and offering resource options, particularly for chronically ill and end-of-life care. You remain positive, upbeat, and dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes. In the midst of emotional and physical pain and vulnerability, you're a sanctuary of support and understanding as you celebrate the small victories.

  • Conduct assessment of patient's psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing of patient and family members.
  • Evaluate coping skills, cognitive and intellectual functioning, support systems, resources, and other factors that could affect responses to illness, treatment, and discharge plan.
  • Identify barriers and plans for intervention to overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcomes as evidenced by treatment plan.
  • Communicate findings and plan to interdisciplinary team and document assessment, plan, and interventions in medical records.
  • Provide crisis intervention and supportive counseling for individuals experiencing a temporary or situational problem.
  • Assess cases of suspected elder, child, sexual, or domestic abuse or neglect and comply with required reporting according to state law and hospital policy.
  • Refer patients/families to appropriate community agencies for further intervention or counseling such as palliative or hospice services as needed.
  • Facilitate family meetings to help with decision making when there is disagreement or lack of clarity around goals of care and plan of care.
  • Facilitate interactions between staff and DCFS/EPS or other agencies.
  • Identify patients in assigned caseload with complex social and medical issues through case finding and referral process.
  • Review caseload with manager to share findings, needs, barriers, and progress to discharge.
  • Evaluate financial assistance needs and eligibility and direct patients/family to appropriate community agencies.
  • Maintain a working knowledge of payor reimbursement requirements for post hospital services and community resources.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of legal rights, advance directives, and patient rights with ability to counsel/educate patients/families regarding patient rights, decision making, and formulating advance directives.
  • Master's degree.
  • Licensed Master Social Worker through the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners.
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