Responsibilities
- Promotes a safe, cooperative, and professional healthcare environment to ensure optimum patient care.
- Adheres to all hospital policies, procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Prioritizes customer service, treating patients, visitors, and coworkers professionally with courtesy and tact.
- Effectively communicates about hospital services and ensures concerns reach the appropriate personnel.
- Interviews patients and/or families to obtain psychosocial information and assess functioning related to safety and discharge planning.
- Formulates assessments and treatment/discharge plans that highlight a clinically realistic and sensitive understanding of patient needs.
- Participates in scheduled multidisciplinary rounds and meetings.
- Provides direct social work/discharge planning services, including community resource advocacy.
- Maintains ongoing professional rapport with community agencies.
- Documents all work activity in the patient’s medical chart and Allscripts according to guidelines.
- Engages with patients and/or family members with respect to cultural differences and individuality.
- Demonstrates consistent attention to patient confidentiality.
- Counsels patients, families, and significant others regarding lifestyle changes and functional coping patterns.
- Completes and submits monthly statistics in a timely manner.
- Attends all scheduled Social Work/Discharge Planning Department meetings.
- Speaks to patients, families, and significant others with age-appropriate conversation and demeanor.
- Provides social work rotating weekend coverage in various departments as necessary.
- Participates in White Board Rounds, discharge planning meetings, and patient conferences.
- Provides supporting documentation of activities in AllScripts and Weekend Log.
- Attends scheduled supervision and obtains consultation when needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work.
- New York State Certification (LMSW) required at time of hire or within 6 months of start date.
- Two (2) years of experience in a hospital setting related to the assigned department.
Skills
- Continuing education activities
- Psychosocial assessment
- Discharge planning
- Community resource advocacy
- Documentation in patient charts and Allscripts
- Cultural sensitivity
- Patient confidentiality
- Counseling
- Age-appropriate communication
Experience Level
- Two years of experience
Education Level
- Master’s Degree in Social Work
