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About The Position

Requirements

• Registration with California Board of Behavioral Sciences as Associate Social Worker (ASW) or Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT).
• Licensure within six years of hire/transfer.
• Kaweah Health approved crisis intervention training within 60 days of hire/transfer.

Nice To Haves

• Failure to receive licensure within this time frame will result in termination of employment.

Responsibilities

• Intervenes in crisis situations, providing needed assessment, counseling and information to patients and their families.
• Provides discharge planning, coordinating equipment and/or home care, placement of patient in appropriate facility, transportation, patient-family training, financial needs and necessary follow-up.
• Gathers information about the patient's social, psychological, cultural, environmental and financial situation for a psychosocial assessment and treatment plan.
• Counsels individuals and their families regarding psychosocial needs and problems related to their medical condition.
• Makes rounds and responds to referrals from physicians and staff providing guidance to necessary social services.
• Provides consultation to physicians, hospital staff and community as it relates to patient care needs.
• Charts all necessary patient information carefully and accurately and according to procedure.
• Arranges transportation for patients leaving hospital for transfers to other levels of care (nursing home, other acute care hospitals) and for standard patients with no means of getting home.
• Accumulates information on community resources and links patients, families, and staff to appropriate services.
• Assists in financial counseling, linking patients and their families to appropriate resources.
• Provides education to department, hospital staff, and community on psychosocial aspects of illness.
• Provides support and knowledge on medical-social issues through structured community outreach programs.
• Provides oversight and consultation to Medical Counselors.
• May provide field supervision to Master's prepared students.
• Provides supervision and delegates duties to the Social Work Assistants as appropriate within the scope of practice.
• Attends team conferences and rounds.
• Responds to referrals from physicians and staff, providing guidance for necessary social or case management services.
• Coordinates the provision of social services in the distinct part SNF's with the non-licensed staff.
• Provides psychosocial services to clients and families including psychosocial assessment, treatment planning, family education/support, and discharge planning for all clients on his/her caseload.
• Using sound clinical judgment provides effective and dynamic therapeutic groups on a consistent basis which meaningfully address the client's needs and goals as stated in the treatment plan.
• Performs thorough psychosocial assessments within specified timeframes.
• Formulates a discharge plan as soon as possible after admission in collaboration with other disciplines based on diagnostic summary.
• Facilitates treatment planning process and assures that all treatment team functions are thoroughly documented.
• Completes family/significant other education/support meetings on a group and individual basis as needed to support family/significant other's ability to support patient upon discharge.
• Provides client and family with all necessary information regarding legal proceedings during admission to Kaweah Health Mental Health, including involuntary detention, 14-day Certification, Conservatorship process as well as possible Adult Protective Services or Child Welfare Services reporting.
• Acts as a resource to the physician and treatment team to support all efforts in fully realizing the regarding the client's broad scope psychosocial and recovery needs and recovery potentials.
• Completes assessment for NICU within 2 days. Assessment will be done by interviewing at least one NICU parent.
• Develops case plan with NICU parent within 5 days of admission that includes: family stress, environmental health and psychosocial factors.
• Completes NICU progress note weekly.
• Identifies Pediatric high risk psychosocial issues and will have a case plan in place that will include but not be limited to the following: Family stress level and reaction to the child's hospitalization, social and emotional support available to family and patient, and support services needed and provided.
• Documents pediatric progress reports weekly.
• Provides psychosocial assessments to all patients under the age of 21 regardless of bed and/or service/department assignment who remain inpatient for three days or more.
• Provides assessment and safety planning for patients in mental health crisis. Includes writing 5150/5585 holds.
• Manages the support groups; may be a facilitator.
• Provides supportive literature to patients and works with American Society to maintain current information and available resources.
• Acts as a liaison between KH, SRCC and other organizations sponsoring community activities for cancer patients.
• Participates in planning and represents the Kaweah Health at the events.
• Provides the communication link between the outpatient services and inpatient care.
• Identifies high risk psychosocial issues and will have a case plan in place that will include but not be limited to the following: family stress level and reaction to current medical status, social and emotional support available to patient and family, and support services needed and provided.
• Coordination of discharge planning and linkages to appropriate resourced (i.e. American Cancer Society, Support Groups, Financial, etc.).
• Communicates and works collaboratively with Oncologists regarding services provided including discharge planning and coordination /linkage to outpatient services.
• Follows up with the patient and outpatient treatment providers once he/she resumes outpatient care.
• Provides psychosocial assessments and treatment plans for every patient encounter at SRCC Visalia and Hanford.
• Provides comprehensive services and support that includes but not limited to: transportation, financial assistance, emotional support, cancer specific resources, and linkages to community support.
• Coordinates equipment or continuity of care.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary team regarding education of biopsychosocial aspects of oncology treatments.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care and services appropriate to the population served on the assigned unit or work area.
• Knowledgeable of growth and development for all patient/family cultural, linguistic, spiritual, gender, and age specific needs.
• Able to effectively communicate and care for patient and family as reflected in the Plan for Provision of Care.
• Performs other duties as assigned.