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About the Role

Provides biopsychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, short-term counseling, and care transition planning for patients and families across all age groups and care settings. Facilitates psycho-education, support groups, and interdisciplinary team consultations. Acts as a liaison to community programs and assists with discharge planning.

Responsibilities

• Provides biopsychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, short term counseling, linkage with 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 treatment team.
• Serves as a liaison to community programs.
• Assists and collaborates with multidisciplinary team on discharge planning.
• Practices independently.
• Provides patients with support in adjustment to illness and facilitates goals of care conversations with patients and families.
• May provide education to staff and other hospital departments and participate on committees.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Social Work or related field.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
• 2 years recent relevant experience.
• 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-acute 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.
• 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.
• Knowledge of local county / state / federal resources for at-risk population.

Skills

• Biopsychosocial assessment
• Clinical interventions
• Crisis intervention
• Patient/family behavioral issues intervention
• Grief counseling
• Supportive counseling
• Adjustment to illness support
• Life review/end of life support
• Behavioral change therapy
• Motivational interviewing
• Short-term family counseling
• Group facilitation
• Collaboration
• Teamwork
• Patient and family advocacy
• Transitions of care knowledge
• Community resources knowledge
• Post-acute levels of care knowledge
• Discharge planning knowledge
• Child abuse reporting knowledge
• Elder abuse reporting knowledge
• Dependent adult abuse reporting knowledge
• Crimes against persons reporting knowledge
• Tarasoff compliance
• Patient confidentiality
• Behavioral health assessment
• Mental health functioning assessment
• High risk behaviors assessment
• Depression assessment
• Anxiety assessment
• Psychiatric conditions assessment
• Suicidal behavior assessment
• Lethality assessment
• Substance use assessment
• Addiction level assessment
• Motivation for change assessment
• Cultural values understanding
• Spiritual values understanding
• Age-specific psychosocial care
• Palliative care knowledge
• Goals of care discussions
• End-of-life psychosocial needs knowledge
• Bioethics knowledge
• Legal issues impacting patient care knowledge
• Verbal communication
• Written communication
• Interpersonal skills
• Organizational skills
• Computer proficiency
• Data entry
• Email communication
• Calendar management
• Task list management
• Local county/state/federal resource knowledge

Location

• CPMC-California Pacific Med Center Van Ness

Work Type

• Per Diem/Casual
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 2 years recent relevant experience

Education Level

• Master's degree in Social Work or related field

Salary/Compensations

• $70.35 to $70.35 / hour

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package

About the Company

• Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer.

Equal Opportunity

• EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans