Social Worker MSW

Provision of specialized psychosocial services to inpatients and outpatients and their families served by CAMC. Includes:
Counseling, crisis intervention, implementation and coordination of services for discharge plan, referrals, and other professional services as may be required.

• Receive referrals from case coordinators, nursing, and physicians to coordinate and implement the discharge plan as needed.
• Coordinate out of home placements with patient/family/and other facilities.
• Assist patients and families in understanding and making constructive use of patient care services and community resources (lodging, parking, meals, transportation, prescriptions, government entitlement program referrals, etc.).
• Identify socioeconomic conditions relevant to the health status of patients and stays current in knowledge of various program eligibility guidelines.
• Complete required psycho-social assessments for ESRD, Home Training, pre and post kidney transplant, and rehab patients. Complete other psycho-social assessments as appropriate or needed.
• Assist patients and families with psycho-social adjustment to illness or injury, including: crisis intervention, bereavement issues regarding loss, psycho-social support, support groups, establish treatment plans, etc.
• Respond to referrals for patients and families with complex issues and needs including:
• Respond to educational needs of the staff and community, specifically related to social work issues such as advance directives, teen pregnancy, abuse/neglect issues, etc.
• Education to patient/family/community on advance directives.
• Assistance to patient and family with completion of advance directives, organ donation, etc.
• Procure and manage community donations for ESRD, Baptist Ministries, and Good Samaritan Fund, etc.
• Participate on hospital committees as needed, that are necessary and appropriate such as Ethics, Quality Improvement Councils, Medical Audit, Patient Care, etc.
• Provide psycho-social support to CAMC employees for ongoing therapeutic intervention.
• Assist in facilitation of communication to patient, family, police, employer, and others as necessary and appropriate.
• Works as an integral part of the interdisciplinary team of assigned area.
• Document all action done for or with patient/family in Medical Records.
• This position will be assigned specifically to the Children’s Advocacy Center at CAMC Women & Children’s Division and will serve primarily as a Forensic Interviewer. In that capacity, the social worker will be responsible for conducting forensic interviews with children believed to be victims of child abuse or a witness to crimes and other responsibilities directly related.
• In addition to the educational and experience requirements outlined in the job description, applicants must have successfully completed a nationally recognized forensic interviewing course or must obtain such within 90 days of hiring. Experience with multi-disciplinary teams, community-based response to allegations of child abuse and neglect are required.
• Responsibilities include coordinating and conducting forensic interviews of children and adolescents alleging child abuse; participating in pre/post interview multidisciplinary case staffing; preparing written reports of interviews. The Forensic Interviewer will participate on our local multidisciplinary team, administer grant-required tasks, and participate in peer review/supervision and assist with other duties as assigned.

Patient Group Knowledge (Only applies to positions with direct patient contact)

The employee must possess/obtain (by the end of the orientation period) and demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide developmentally appropriate assessment,…