(Immediate Start) LSW or LCSW Inpatient Social Medicine / FT / Honolulu
Company: Kaiser
Location: Honolulu
Posted on: June 26, 2025
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Job Description:
Job Summary: Serves as an integral member of a multidisciplinary
inpatient care team. Provides comprehensive psychosocial
assessments, coordination, and implementation of age appropriate
social medicine services to meet the needs of
patients/families/significant others in the hospital setting. The
social worker encourages respect for individuality and patient
choice, while collaborating on policies and systems that respect
the cultural, religious, and ethnic difference among patients and
families. Essential Responsibilities: - Participates as a member of
the inpatient multidisciplinary 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 hospitalized patients. 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 referral or case
finding, assists patients and their support system (e.g. friends,
family) with coping strategies related to illness and
hospitalization. - Conducts social medicine consultation and
assistance for cases invloving 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 with coordination of discharge plan and assures patients
placement in appropriate community based settings from hospital. -
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. Basic Qualifications:
Experience - Minimum one (1) year experience in health care
setting. Education - Masters degree in social work. License,
Certification, Registration - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
(Hawaii) OR Licensed Social Worker (Hawaii) - Basic Life Support
within 0.5 months of hire from American Heart Association
Additional Requirements: - Experience with interdisciplinary team
function. - Knowledge of medical terminology, the psychosocial
impact of serious illnesses. - Demonstrated ability to interrelate
with physicians, nurses, support staff, and patients. - Familiar
with care processes and systems in settings internal and external
to Kaiser Permanente. - Knowledge of the principles of patient
teaching and delegation, care planning, and appropriate utilization
of acute hospital, long term care, and home care resources. -
Demonstrates customer-focused service skills. - Knowledge of
community resources, family dynamics, and the dying process. -
Keyboarding or typing skills. Preferred Qualifications: - N/A
PrimaryLocation : Hawaii,Honolulu,Moanalua Ancillary Building
HoursPerWeek : 40 Shift : Day Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri,
Sat, Sun WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM WorkingHoursEnd : 04:30 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time Job Type : Standard Employee Status :
Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : HHW|NUHW|IBHS & IP MSW
Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Behavioral
Health, Social Services & Spiritual Care Department : Moanalua
Medical Center - Social Services-Inpatient - 1201 Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to
fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be
considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex,
age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other
protected characteristic or status.
Keywords: Kaiser, Honolulu , (Immediate Start) LSW or LCSW Inpatient Social Medicine / FT / Honolulu, Healthcare , Honolulu, Hawaii
