Social Worker, Kidney-Pancreas Transplant, MSW LCSW

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Location: Lourdes Ambulatory - Camden - 1601 Haddon Ave

Remote Type: On‑Site

Employment Type: Employee

Employment Classification: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Work Shift: 1st Shift (United States of America)

Total Weekly

Hours:

40

Additional Locations: Kresson Road - 63 Kresson Rd

Provides ongoing psychosocial support and navigation services to patients with advanced organ disease, transplant candidates and recipients, mechanical circulatory support candidates and recipients, living donors and caregivers throughout all phases of care. This role spans inpatient and outpatient care settings where the Social Worker collaborates closely with the multidisciplinary care team, ensuring compliance with regulatory documentation standards and is available after hours as needed for emergent evaluations and candidate selection meetings.

The Social Worker also provides counseling, crisis interventions, referral to community agencies, education, bio‑ethics consultation and complex discharge planning coordination. Works with patients, families and caregivers in a compassionate, culturally competent, age‑appropriate manner to facilitate access to transplantation and advanced care services. The Social Worker will participate in multidisciplinary rounds, multidisciplinary selection meetings, as well as outreach initiatives designed to enhance patient and community education about transplantation and advanced care disease services.

Inpatient and Outpatient Psychosocial Assessment and Counseling

• Uses culturally competent skills to conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments in both inpatient and outpatient setting addressing patient needs, family dynamics, social histories, and financial needs. Interviews family members and others to obtain relevant information required to develop an individualized care plan based on psychosocial assessment, including age and other factors, throughout all phase of care.
• Communicates pertinent psychosocial data to the transplant and advanced organ disease teams and referral sources.
• Provides supportive counseling in collaboration with patients and families as needed through all phases of care and collaborates and refers to the psychiatry or behavioral health team as needed for additional guidance and support.
• Participate in and develop inpatient and community programs that benefit patients, families, and staff. Implements support groups for specified disease processes or biopsychosocial issues to assist community outreach and development.
• Maintains appropriate and complete documentation of the psychosocial assessment in the inpatient and outpatient setting appropriate interventions, plans, and referrals. Follows…