Social Worker

Responsibilities

The social worker is responsible for providing clinical services to patients admitted to their assigned Intensive Care Units and their families. The social worker serves as a member of the interdisciplinary health care team on their assigned unit and serves as a liaison to health and social service agencies in the community. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Provides social work interventions to patients and their families including risk screening on all patients admitted to his/her unit through chart review and interdisciplinary rounds, psychosocial assessments for those with identified risk factors (including victims of abuse, neglect or domestic violence), providing psychosocial support including crisis intervention, supportive counseling and grief and bereavement counseling In collaboration with the members of the health care teams, coordinates discharge planning for patients who are determined to be at psychosocial risk, provides appropriate hand off to other social workers when patients are transferred to other units within the hospital Serves as a resource consultant to patients and their families and facilitates referrals to appropriate community agencies and hospital resources; may make home visits, where appropriate, to provide essential psychosocial assessments and social work interventions. Handles risk management issues, in close consultation with his/her supervisor and the Clinical Manager Documents social work activity in the electronic medical record Provides social work coverage, as requested, to other clinical units or programs during co-workers absence Completes the following Administrative Functions: Completes Hospital and SW Division required in-service training programs and ongoing professional development activities including those that are designed to enhance knowledge and skills in protective work Completes required Employee Health appointments within required timeframe Attends all appropriate Social Work Division meetings including, but limited to – SW Division meetings, complex case discussion, transplant staff meeting, etc Supervises social work students (MSW or BSW) Orients and provides ongoing peer support to new social work staff Other duties as assigned