Social Worker Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Social Work.
• One year of clinical experience.
• Basic computer skills and familiarity with Windows-based software programs.
• Experience in crisis intervention, psychosocial counseling, and therapeutic counseling.
• Experience in utilization management, managed care, quality, and payor issues.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

• State Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
• Two years of hospital or healthcare social-work experience.
• Knowledge of acute-care regulatory and accreditation requirements.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate the knowledge and ability to care for the age-specific needs of the population served, as measured by mandatory training and supervisor observation.
• Demonstrate an understanding of illness and recovery and their impact on patients and families.
• Respond to campus-wide referrals on the same working day.
• Identify significant psychosocial issues and implement social-service interventions and continuing-care options through data collection, analysis, and care-plan implementation.
• Use a multidisciplinary approach to promote continuity of care and comprehensive patient services.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with patients, families, physicians, nurses, and ancillary personnel to promote open communication.
• Serve as a resource on internal and external resources for patients, families, physicians, and caregivers.
• Initiate team conferences to discuss complex cases and facilitate consensus.
• Use crisis intervention techniques to calm, comfort, and stabilize patients and families under stress.
• Coordinate realistic referrals and continuing-care plans that meet patients’ needs, age, and health status.
• Inform patients, families, and others accountable for continuing care about their roles and responsibilities under the care plan.
• Use clinical intervention skills to assist patients, families, and caregivers with coping based on assessed needs.
• Document social-work services and interventions in case-management progress notes, the multidisciplinary problem list, and interdisciplinary education records.
• Facilitate and coordinate timely transfers and discharges for patients with complex needs.
• Facilitate and coordinate inpatient and outpatient dialysis arrangements.
• Disclose medical errors to patients and families in accordance with the patient safety plan and disclosure policy, in collaboration with clinical and medical staff.
• Assist in developing and maintaining the electronic case-management resource manual.
• Represent Cleveland Clinic at the Broward County Baker Act Task Force meeting.