Licensed Social Worker

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If you are interested in challenging yet highly rewarding work that absolutely makes a difference in the community and impacts people’s lives, please apply today and come to meet the team! More detail on day to day work is described below. We can’t wait to meet you and show you the amazing difference Care Coordinators make.

Sign-On Bonus $2,000 with 1 year Commitment.

Full-time shift schedule to include every other weekend; 12 hours on scheduled weekdays and 10 hours on scheduled weekends.

Job Description Summary: The Social Worker LMSW provides clinical social work services for patients and their families. Responsible for psychosocial assessment, discharge planning for patients with complex psychosocial and medical problems. Assists patients and their families in coping with difficulties related to hospital admission, illness, treatment and discharge.

Job Description: This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this department. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, and LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

GENERAL DUTIES: Completes psychosocial assessment, develops plans, carries out interventions for patients identified through referral and case finding to have psychosocial risk factors:
- Prioritizes timely response to referral based on urgency of need.
- Conducts assessment of patient’s psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing of patient and family members, conferring with interdisciplinary team and reviewing medical records.
- Evaluates coping skills, cognitive and intellectual functioning, support systems, resources, other factors, that could affect responses to illness, treatment and discharge plan.
- Identifies barriers and plans for intervention to overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcome as evidenced by treatment plan.
- Communicates findings, plan to interdisciplinary team and documents assessment, plan and interventions in medical records.
Crisis Intervention:
- Provides short term supportive counseling for individuals experiencing a temporary or situational problem.
- Performs assessment for cases of suspected elder, child, sexual or domestic abuse or neglect.
- Complies with required reporting, according to state law and hospital policy.
- Refers patients/families to appropriate community agencies for further intervention or counseling services as needed.
- Facilitates interactions between staff and DCFS/EPS or other agencies.
Acts as active team member in the discharge planning process and assures patient is referred to appropriate social and financial resources post discharge:
- Identifies patients in assigned caseload with complex social and medical issues through case finding and referral process.
- Reviews caseload with Manager to share findings, needs, barriers and progress to discharge.
- Evaluates financial assistance needs and eligibility and directs patients/family to appropriate community agencies which can assist in meeting financial needs, or providing food, shelter, transportation or other services.
- Maintains a working knowledge of payor reimbursement requirements for post hospital services.
- Maintains a working knowledge of available community resources by establishing a relationship with liaisons and admissions staff at agencies and facilities in the region.
Demonstrates the ability to address legal/ethical issues regarding health care as it relates to medical social work:
- Demonstrates knowledge of Advance Directives and patient rights.
- Ability to counsel/educate patients/families regarding patient rights, decision making and formulating Advance Directives.
- Facilitates family meetings to help with decision making when there is disagreement or lack of clarity around goals of care and plan of care.
- Links patient and families to available resources in hospital and community to provide ongoing support such as Hospice and Palliative Care.
EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS: 1 to 3 years of experience in Acute Care hospital setting preferred.
EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS: Required: Master's Degree in Social Work or equivalent.
Preferred: Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS:

Certification Name: Basic Life Support Health Care

ProviderIssuer: American Heart Association
Certification Name: Licensed Master Social Worker Required
Issuer: Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners
Licensure Speciality: Licensure
Certification Name: Licensed Clinical Social Worker Required
Issuer: Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners
Licensure Speciality: Licensure

SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Must have good communication (oral and written), conflict management, organizational and planning skills. Must be able to utilize the hospital computer system as it relates to the Social Services Department.
Must have/acquire a working knowledge of significant community resources.
REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS: Does this position formally supervise employees? No
FUNCTIONAL DEMANDS: Light: Light physical requirements- Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. NOTE: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Sitting - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Standing - Frequent (36-66% of day)
Walking - Frequent (36-66% of day)
Climbing (e.g., stairs or ladders) - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Lifting Floor to waist level: 0-10lbs - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Lifting Floor to waist level: 10-20lbs - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Lifting Floor to waist level: 20-50lbs - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Lifting Floor to waist level: 50-100lbs - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Lifting Floor to waist level: 100 lbs - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Carrying objects - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Push/pull - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Twisting - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Bending - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Reaching forward - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Reaching overhead - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Pinching/fine motor activities - Occasional (0-35% of day)
Keyboard use/repetitive motion - Frequent (36-66% of day)
Talk or hear - Continuous (67-100% of day)
SENSORY REQUIREMENTS: Near Vision - Very Accurate 20/20
Far Vision - Very Accurate 20/20
Color Discrimination - No
Depth Perception - Moderate
Hearing - Accurate
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE RISK POTENTIAL: Bloodborne pathogens - Reasonably Anticipated
Chemical - Not Anticipated
Airborne communicable diseases - Reasonably Anticipated
Extreme temperatures - Reasonably Anticipated
Radiation - Not Anticipated
Uneven surfaces or elevations - Reasonably Anticipated
Extreme noise levels - Reasonably Anticipated
Dust/particular matter - Reasonably Anticipated
Other (List) - Not Anticipated
POPULATION SERVED: Neonate/Infant up to 1 year: Yes
Youth (1yr to 15 yrs): Yes
Adult (16 and up): Yes

Why a Great Place to Work: You’re more than your job. Everyone is. And that’s what makes you great at your job—all the little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make you you. At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. And we’ve built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary. You’ll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result. Join LCMC Health, and you’ll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $24.50 - $35.50 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Signing bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Marrero, LA 70072: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $25 - $36