Social Worker; Lcsw; Behaviorial Health Services - Outpatient Department - Part-Time Shif

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• Performs screenings, intake assessments and consultations with patients in the Medical Clinics or the Emergency Room to evaluate service and treatment needs, including admissions and referrals for services.
• Provides ongoing social work intervention and education to patients, families, and significant others for health-related psycho-social problems, based upon goals agreed to by the patient, family, significant others, and the inter-disciplinary team.
• Completes a comprehensive psycho-social assessment on a timely basis.
• Utilizes individual, family, and crisis intervention methods to identify and intervene in problems that influence participation in the continuum of care and treatment. Services provided include counseling, crisis intervention, discharge planning, adult protective services, advocacy, information and referral, collaboration, and patient rights.
• Provides direct services to patients in the Medical Clinics, the Emergency Room/Acute Care, and those referred from the community, utilizing appropriate modalities, including individual, family, and crisis intervention with knowledge of age-specific growth and development aspects of the patients served.
• Serves as a resource to the interdisciplinary team regarding issues of aging, neglect, and abuse; based upon knowledge of rules and regulations for reporting these issues, identifies, assesses, coordinates resources for treatment and assistance, makes community and in-patient referrals for patients, families, and significant others facing these problems.
• Provides case management services to ensure the care and treatment plan is being followed and to assist patients in obtaining supportive services and resources.
• Interprets the nature of illness and any impacting age-related issues and the plan of care to patients and families, the interdisciplinary team, and to community services.
• Acts as a liaison to the inter-disciplinary team in understanding patient and family dynamics, facilitating timely and pro‑active coordination with in-patient, out-patient and community services, including long-term care services, home health care services, and healthcare appointments in other facilities.
• Acts as an advocate for the patient with other Bergen Regional Medical Center services, i.e. in-patient medical, long-term care, and behavioral mental health treatment units, and functions as a liaison with other health care providers in the community, assisting in supportive care and services for patients and families.
• Makes presentations on health-related issues and social services programs, including long-term care, respite care and rehabilitation care, admissions, advance directives, and family caregiving with aging parents.
• Participates in inter-disciplinary care planning conferences, including case presentations, and makes recommendations regarding the needs of the patient and the family from a social work perspective.
• Fulfils all case recording, statistical reporting and other documentation requirements on a comprehensive and timely basis.
• Provides clinical supervision to para-professional staff and students as assigned.
• Provides consultative services to Long Term Care, Acute Care, the Department of Medicine, and Bergen Regional Medical Center staff and to other community agencies/facilities regarding social work issues and services to our patient population.
• Coordinates discharge plan…