Social Worker

Your job is more than a job – you’re a life preserver for countless patients. As a Social Worker, you are the hub of your patients’ multidisciplinary team, advocating, assessing, counseling, and supporting individual psychosocial needs and discharge planning resources for complex medical problems. Responsibilities Perform everyday conduct assessment of patients’ psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing of patients and family members, conferring with interdisciplinary team, and reviewing medical records. Evaluate coping skills, cognitive and intellectual functioning, support systems, resources, and other factors that could affect responses to illness, treatment and discharge plan. Identify barriers and develop plans for intervention to overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcome as evidenced by treatment plan. Communicate findings and plan to interdisciplinary team and document assessment, plan and interventions in medical records. Provide crisis intervention and supportive counseling for individuals experiencing temporary or situational problems. Assess cases of suspected elder, child, sexual or domestic abuse or neglect; comply with required reporting, according to state law and hospital policy. Refer patients/families to appropriate community agencies for further intervention or counseling such as palliative or hospice services as needed and facilitate family meetings to help with decision making when there is disagreement or lack of clarity around goals of care. Facilitate interactions between staff and DCFS/EPS or other agencies. Identify patients in assigned caseload with complex social and medical issues through case finding and referral process. Review caseload with manager to share findings, needs, barriers and progress to discharge. Evaluate financial assistance needs and eligibility and direct patients/families to appropriate community agencies for food, shelter, transportation or other services. Maintain knowledge of payor reimbursement requirements for post‑hospital services and community resources. Demonstrate knowledge of legal rights, advance directives and patient rights, and counsel/educate patients/families regarding patient rights, decision making and formulating advance directives. Qualifications Licensed Master Social Worker through the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners. Shift Days (United States of America) Equal Opportunity Employer LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr 100 LCMC Health