Social Worker II

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provides social services to patients and their families for an assigned medical service.
• Conducts discharge planning evaluations of patients and/or family members to gather needed information.
• Makes psychosocial assessments and relates findings to necessary hospital staff.
• Counsels’ patients and other persons regarding diseases, treatments, social or financial situations, emotional stress and/or other problems.
• Conducts high social risk case findings and provides crisis counselling to patients and families regarding child abuse or neglect, physical abuse, etc. and documents these sessions.
• Provides services of crisis intervention for patients and families.
• Acts as a liaison between patients/families and the hospital staff and other agencies.
  Utilizes available information to evaluate the effectiveness of services provided in producing the desired outcomes and adjusts in patient care are indicated.
• Assists in discharge planning and referrals to the community for ongoing services.
• Assists the patient and family with post hospital placement or transfer to post-acute care facility.
• Assists patients and families with adverse reactions or difficult adjustments to illness, treatment, or changes in functional status.
• Utilizes specialized interviewing and communication skills with children.
• Acts a patient advocate for issues related to informed decision making, end-of-life care, realistic goal setting and appropriate resolution of ethical dilemmas.
• May prepare statistics concerning referrals, extended stay, and other elements.
• May supervise students or newly hired employees.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in social work from an accredited school.
• LMSW strong preferred.
• Hospital experience preferred.