Medical Social Worker

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago provides superior pediatric care in a setting that offers the latest benefits and innovations in medical technology, research and family-friendly design. As the largest pediatric provider in the region with a 140-year legacy of excellence, kids and their families are at the center of all we do. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is ranked in all 10 specialties by the U.S. News & World Report.

Location:

Day (United States of America) – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

• Coordinates service delivery with families and appropriate team members across the continuum.
• Makes necessary referrals to other team members and/or community resources.
• Collaborates with the family to assist them in utilizing community service linkages.
• Meets daily with the inpatient floor case manager to review inpatient census, as well as to proactively identify and address any potential barriers to discharge, should this social worker be assigned to an inpatient unit.
• Identifies, assesses, and responds to child/family needs; includes in this process age‑specific developmental needs, psychosocial needs, cultural needs, and spiritual needs.
• Particularly focuses on addressing the social and emotional needs of families that impact on a patient’s medical treatment and outcome.
• Provides timely and effective intervention for families in emergency/crisis situations. This includes dying/death/bereavement; protective services and domestic violence issues, codes, deterioration of child’s health status, or other situations deemed emergent by the family or health care team.
• Documents in a thorough and timely manner in accordance with professional standards (see assessment/documentation policies). Communicates with members of the health care team, through formal and informal means of transmitting information, in order to provide optimal care of patients and families.
• Informs health care team of the role of community and other internal providers in impacting a social and emotional status of a child and family.
• Assists case managers in discharge planning and community linkages for families with complex social and emotional needs.
• Maintains and role models professional boundaries within social work and health care teams.
• Addresses the psychosocial/spiritual/developmental/cultural needs of the child and family throughout the continuum of care.
• Participates regularly in the team’s interdisciplinary rounds.
• Participates in the team’s group problem‑solving and program planning.
• Collaborates with team to develop programs that target high‑risk families and to maximize opportunities for preventive health care for all families served.
• Educates interdisciplinary team regarding how social and emotional issues impact on a family’s coping with illness and response to treatment.
• Leads team and other family service professional in establishing family services goals for team care delivery.
• Recognizes that response to the customer and the changing environment may involve going beyond the confines of the traditional job description.
• Maintains an environment that reflects pride and ownership and shows a willingness to care for the surroundings.
• Performs administrative and project management duties, as assigned.
• May precept social work students.
• Maintains appropriate records and statistics. Participates in hospital‑wide social work intake system. Participates in hospital‑wide social work on‑call system. Maintains and enhances information and referral lists for staff use.
• Communicates with team on changing hospital, community agency, and governmental policies that impact on the treatment and care of children and their families.
• Performs job functions…