Social Worker

• Plan, organize, and implement social work services for medically and socially complex patients and families
• Address patients’ medically related emotional and social needs
• Facilitate quality care and education for patients and families
• Counsel individuals and groups
• Assess needs and facilitate intensive discharge-planning plans
• Maintain knowledge of community agencies and resources and facilitate appropriate referrals
• Provide compassionate, culturally competent patient advocacy and continuity of care
• Interview patients and families about home environment, family systems, health history, and personality traits
• Evaluate data against medical treatment plans and available social service programs
• Help patients and families understand, accept, and follow medical recommendations
• Arrange discharge or post-operative care, assisted-living or nursing-home placement, transportation, and other support services
• Conduct supportive visits and document patient information in the EMR
• Maintain department policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, infection, and environmental-control programs
• Assist with data collection, analysis, and reporting for hospital and regulatory stakeholders
• Conduct individual, marital, family, and group therapies
• Coordinate care conferences and represent social work on multidisciplinary teams
• Use research findings to improve patient outcomes and quality of life
• Collaborate with Case Management to coordinate services and continuity of care
• Support patients and families coping with anxiety, stress, illness, disability, crisis situations, helplessness, and end-of-life concerns
• Provide educational materials

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