Licensed Master Social Worker; LMSW

Overview

You’re a Social Worker who serves as the hub of your patients’ multidisciplinary team, advocating, assessing, counseling, and supporting individual psychosocial needs and discharge planning resources for complex medical problems. You are a clinical care partner with expertise in care management, identifying and overcoming barriers and offering resource options for chronically ill and end‑of‑life care, remaining positive, upbeat, and dedicated to achieving the best possible outcomes.

• Conduct assessment of patient’s psychosocial needs through intensive interviewing of patients and family members, conferring with interdisciplinary teams and reviewing medical records.
• Evaluate coping skills, cognitive and intellectual functioning, support systems, resources, and other factors that could affect responses to illness, treatment, and discharge plans.
• Identify barriers and develop plans for intervention to overcome or lessen barriers to achieve outcomes as evidenced by the treatment plan.
• Communicate findings and plans to the interdisciplinary team and document assessment, plans, and interventions in medical records.
• Provide crisis intervention and supportive counseling for individuals experiencing a temporary or situational problem.
• Assess cases of suspected elder, child, sexual, or domestic abuse or neglect.
• Comply with required reporting, according to state law and hospital policy.
• Refer patients/families to appropriate community agencies for further intervention or counseling such as palliative or hospice services, and facilitate family meetings to aid decision making when there is disagreement or lack of clarity around goals of care.
• Facilitate interactions between staff and DCFS/EPS or other agencies.
• Identify patients in the assigned caseload with complex social and medical issues through case finding and referral processes.
• Review caseload with manager to share findings, needs, barriers, and progress toward discharge.
• Evaluate financial assistance needs and eligibility, and direct patients/families to appropriate community agencies for assistance with food, shelter, transportation, or other services.
• Maintain a working knowledge of payor reimbursement requirements for post‑hospital services and community resources.
• Demonstrate knowledge of legal rights, advance directives, and patient rights with the ability to counsel and educate patients and families regarding decision making and formulating advance directives.

• Master’s degree.
• Licensed Master Social Worker through the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners.
• Availability to work Day shifts in the United States.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.