Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW or LSW) - Emergency Department - Part Time
Company: Necnic Group, LLC
Location: Honolulu
Posted on: April 15, 2024
Job Description:
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW or LSW) Emergency
Department Employment Type: Part-Time Shifts: 8 hours shifts. Days,
evening and nights available. Job Summary: Serves as an integral
member of emergency department/CDU care team. Provides psychosocial
assessments, coordination and implementation of age appropriate
social medicine services to meet the needs of
patients/families/significant others in the emergency department
and CDU. Essential Responsibilities:
- Participates as a member of the ED/CDU care team providing
social medicine expertise in response to care team referrals and
case finding of high need populations (e.g. new diagnosis, terminal
illness, loss of function, lack of social support, grief and
bereavement, homeless, complex finances, etc.)
- Completes psychosocial assessments of patients in ED/CDU.
Identifies psychosocial needs, develops, and implements plan of
care. Documents according to departmental standards, Federal and
State regulations. Assures medical record documentation of patient
interaction and related tasks performed in a timely manner.
- Upon ED/CDU referral or case finding, assists patients and
their support system (e.g. friends, family) with coping strategies
related to illness.
- Conducts social medicine consultation and assistance for cases
involving abuse, neglect, advance care planning, and legal decision
making (e.g guardianship)
- Provides information and referrals to community resources for
post discharge support.
- Applies knowledge base, theoretical concepts, specific
functional skills, and essential social values used to effect
change in human behavior, emotional responses, and social
conditions.
- Contributes to the patient discharge planning process by
assessing patient and support systems choices and educating them on
the risks and benefits of their choices to facilitate
discharge.
- Assists in coordination of discharge plan and assures patients
placement in appropriate community based settings from ED/CDU.
- Provides information, resource identification and referral
services, mediation services, advocacy services, and education to
patients and their support system.
- Plans for and participates in development activities to keep
abreast of current trends in medical social work. Participates in
performance improvement. Implements Quality Improvement processes.
Assists with development and implementation of departments annual
work-plan. Performs clinical record audits. Maintains educational
record and provides evidence of competency. Participates in
departmental functions such as staff meetings, staff in-services,
and committees, as assigned. Participates in orientation of new
personnel. Qualifications:
- Minimum one (1) year experience in health care setting.
- Masters degree in Social Work.
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Hawaii) OR Licensed Social
Worker (Hawaii)
- Basic Life Support within 0.5 months of hire from American
Heart Association Compensation: Competitive compensation - $36,000
- $42,000 and benefits package including Tuition assistance,
eligible for public student loan forgiveness
Keywords: Necnic Group, LLC, Honolulu , Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW or LSW) - Emergency Department - Part Time, Healthcare , Honolulu, Hawaii
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