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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 an assessment and treatment/discharge plan highlighting 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 and maintaining rapport with community agencies.
• Documents all work activity in the patient’s medical chart and Allscripts according to departmental and regulatory 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 Pediatric Emergency Department, Nursery, Labor and Delivery, and other areas as necessary.
• Attends scheduled meetings, participates in White Board Rounds, discharge planning meetings, and patient conferences, providing supporting documentation.
• Attends scheduled supervision and obtains consultation when needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Must possess a Master’s Degree in Social Work from an accredited school of social work.
• Must possess New York State Certification (LMSW) at time of hire or obtain within 6 months of start date.
• Requires two (2) years of experience in a hospital setting related to the department to which the worker will be assigned.

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 (2) years’ experience in a hospital setting

Education Level

• Master’s Degree in Social Work