Licensed Master Social Worker

Licensed Master Social Worker

Part Time Houston, TX, US

• Assesses psychosocial, emotional, and / or economical factors affecting patient's limitations and potential for and / or lack of improvement.
• Assesses patient’s needs for long term care including home and family situation, exploring alternatives to in home care arrangement for placement.
• Counsels patient, caregiver regarding long term planning and decision making.
• Collaborates with physician and other member of health team to develop a Plan of care.
• Communicates significant information regarding patients with other members of health care team and makes necessary recommendation, suggestion to improve the Plan of care.
• Clinical notes should be written each visit and include progress, or lack of, specific plans, goals, anticipated length of service, referrals made, and follow-up on referrals.
• Submits initial evaluation visit, interim evaluations (as deemed necessary) and discharge evaluation from Social Services. These are required documentation.
• Identifies high risk indicators potentially endangering patients and provides intervention reports of the situation to the Director of Nurses and proper authorities.