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About the Role

Provides biopsychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, short term counseling, advocacy, and linkage to resources for patients and their families. Facilitates psycho-education, support groups, and serves as a liaison to community programs. Collaborates on discharge planning and may provide staff education.

Responsibilities

• Provides biopsychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, short term counseling, advocacy, and linkage to resources and planning for transitions of care for patients and their families/significant others of all ages in any patient care setting.
• Provides psycho-education and may facilitate support groups.
• Provides consultation on psychosocial aspects of care as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
• Serves as a liaison to community programs and collaborates with the multidisciplinary treatment on discharge planning.
• May provide education to staff and other hospital departments and participates on committees as requested.

Requirements

• 2 years recent relevant experience.
• Must demonstrate interpersonal and organizational skills, to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing priorities and competing demands.
• Proficient in using a computer to accurately enter and extract data, send and receive email, calendar appointments, and use task lists as will be using a variety of computer software programs.

Skills

• Clinical skills in biopsychosocial assessment and clinical interventions, including crisis intervention, intervention with patient/family behavioral issues, grief counseling, supportive counseling, adjustment to illness, life review/end of life support, behavioral change therapy, motivational interviewing, short-term family counseling, group facilitation.
• Collaboration skills and ability to work effectively on a team.
• Skills in patient and family advocacy.
• Knowledge of transitions of care and community resources.
• Knowledge of post cute levels of care and resource needs for discharge planning
• Knowledge of child, elder and dependent adult abuse, crimes against persons reporting requirements, and other significant regulations affecting clinical social work practice (e.g. Tarasoff, patient confidentiality).
• Knowledge of behavioral health and the skills to assess mental health functioning, high risk behaviors, depression, anxiety, or other psychiatric conditions impacting hospitalization or transitions of care.
• Knowledge of suicidal behavior, and the skills necessary to assess lethality, and to develop and implement an appropriate plan of care.
• Knowledge of substance use and the skills to assess level of addiction, motivation for change, and to develop and implement an appropriate plan of care.
• Knowledge and understanding of the influence of cultural and spiritual values in social work practice.
• Knowledge and skills necessary to provide psychosocial care appropriate to the age-specific needs of newborns, children, adolescents, adults and elders.
• Knowledge of palliative care, goals of care discussions, and the psychosocial needs of the patient and family at end-of-life.
• Knowledge of bioethics and legal issues impacting patient care.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing.
• Knowledge of local county/state/federal resources for at-risk population.

Location

• CPMC-California Pacific Med Center

Work Type

• Full Time
• Days

Experience Level

• 2 years recent relevant experience

Education Level

• Master's: Social Work
• Masters of Social Services, MSS, degree from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education

Salary/Compensations

• $54.08 to $75.71 / hour

Benefits

• Yes
• Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package.

About the Company

• Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EEOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.

Equal Opportunity

• Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.