Medical Social Worker III LCSW Lancaster Per Diem

Medical Social Worker III LCSW Lancaster Per Diem

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The Medical Social Worker III provides assessments, coordination, and implementation/evaluation of professional social services to patients and their families in order to aid them in coping with social, emotional, and economic difficulties related to medical problems or predispositions to illness.

• Upholds Kaiser Permanente policies and procedures, principles of responsibilities, and applicable state, federal, and local laws.
• Provides quality services by assessing patient/family system needs, developing and implementing treatment plans in accordance with departmental and medical center policies. Quality is indicated by QM findings, documentation review, case presentations, staff and patient feedback, and supervisory discussions.
• Performs a bio‑psychosocial assessment interview with patient, family, and/or significant other according to department policy and standards.
• Provides appropriate crisis intervention/treatment to adults, children, and families in emergent situations, including assessment, counseling, information/referral, and consultation to physicians and healthcare team.
• Provides professional interpretation of patients’ condition (situation, affect, behavior, verbal content) and recommends psycho‑social interventions and/or treatment plans.
• Develops culturally sensitive assessment reflecting department standards, including reason for referral, source of referral, informant name, physical/medical issues, interpersonal and social relations, emotional/psychiatric/adjustment issues (including depression), role performance/social transition, community planning/resources, and legal/protective issues.
• Provides counseling services to patients and/or families based on clinical assessment, consistent with patients’ ongoing medical condition/needs.
• Performs relevant patient and family advocacy services within Kaiser Permanente and the community.
• Provides patient education on psycho‑social adjustments to medical illness, individually, in classes, or groups.
• Maintains professional knowledge, values, standards of practice, and enhances professional skills as demonstrated by documentation reviews, case presentations, staff and patient feedback, supervisory discussions, and attendance at conferences/classes.
• Interprets social, emotional, and behavioral problems in relation to patients’ medical condition and treatment.
• Has knowledge of Kaiser Permanente and community resources consistent with treatment goals.
• Facilitates staff and other meetings using professional knowledge.
• Observes Department policies and procedures.
• Engages in formal and informal education opportunities to increase professional knowledge base.
• Integrates clinical social work theory into practice, using knowledge of bio‑psychosocial development stages, personality development, human behavior, etc., to formulate assessment, direct treatment, and provide consultation and education to team members.
• Provides specialized services for key populations:
  Neonates (substance abuse, bonding, safety, developmental milestones, parental coping, birth/death), Pediatrics (child abuse/neglect reporting, substance abuse, safety, legal, parent/guardian relations, developmental milestones, family relationships, peer group, school performance), Adolescents (abuse/neglect reporting, substance abuse, developmental milestones, family relationships, peer group relationships, sexuality, education), Adults (abuse/neglect reporting, substance abuse, self‑care adequacy, developmental milestones, sexuality, family responsibilities), Geriatric (elder abuse/neglect reporting, substance abuse, self‑care, support system, mental status/competency, mortality), End‑of‑Life (regulatory reporting, care coordination, assistance with California End‑of‑Life Option Act).
• Functions as an effective team member, consultant, and liaison to medical, nursing, ancillary staff, and community agencies. Success measured by staff feedback, supervisor observation, QM evaluations, and written communications.
• Communicates accurate information to team members, follows…