Social Worker MSW

CommonSpirit Health•Bakersfield, CA

45d

About The Position

The Clinical Social Worker is responsible for performing social work assessments and interventions as needed for inpatients outpatients and emergency department patients. They are dedicated to patient and family centered care that values personal self-determination skilled at managing multiple priorities at once and engaging in creative compassionate and ethical problem-solving. As a member of a multidisciplinary health team they perform comprehensive assessments and develop treatment plans that integrate the medical social and resource issues that impact individual patients families and at risk populations. Clinical Social Workers are responsible for working collaboratively with all healthcare team members to develop and implement treatment plans that support patient-centered plan of care for both individual patients and the medical community. The functions of the Clinical Social Worker includes crisis intervention patient /family intervention high risk screening brief counseling referring for financial or other identified resource needs arrange and facilitate family/patient representative meetings with the health care team as needed assist in post acute placement on complex discharges and engagement of appropriate agencies or community resources when high risk patients are identified. The Clinical Social Worker establishes and maintains professional relationships with physicians case managers nursing staff county agencies community resources patients and families. The position will be required to serve on hospital committees and take part in developing and presenting in-services to Hospital staff.

Requirements

Masters degree from a School of Social work accredited by the Council of Social Work Education (MSW)
At least two years of clinical and/or medical social work experience required.

Responsibilities

performing social work assessments and interventions
patient and family centered care
managing multiple priorities
creative compassionate and ethical problem-solving
develop treatment plans
crisis intervention
patient /family intervention
high risk screening
brief counseling
referring for financial or other identified resource needs
arrange and facilitate family/patient representative meetings with the health care team as needed
assist in post acute placement on complex discharges
engagement of appropriate agencies or community resources when high risk patients are identified
maintains professional relationships with physicians case managers nursing staff county agencies community resources patients and families
serve on hospital committees
take part in developing and presenting in-services to Hospital staff