Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Social Work Clinician, Inpatient Float

Overview

At Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, we provide world-class care with family-centered service. We seek caring, committed people to join our team on our mission to heal humanity, one child and family at a time.

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Licensed Clinical Social Worker is the second and fully-qualified, full-proficiency level of professional social work for employees who are licensed by the State of California as Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW). This level involves substantial professional responsibility and independence in providing social work services.

Social Work Clinician is the entry, developmental, and first working level for employees who are recent graduates or who are not yet licensed as LCSWs by the State of California.

The Social Work Job Family consists of three levels of professional non-management social work in a health care institutional setting:
Social Work Clinician, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and Advanced Clinical Social Worker. A Master s degree in Social Work (MSW) is required. Social workers provide psychosocial interventions to patients and families, assess social needs related to health status, and collaborate on treatment plans. They advocate within the organization and community, provide counseling, referrals, and practical assistance, and may train health care staff on biopsychosocial, cultural, and economic issues.

They support core values and ethics within Stanford Medicine and the broader community.

The essential functions listed are typical examples and not a comprehensive inventory of duties. Employees may perform other duties as assigned. Employees must comply with Joint Commission requirements and hospital policies and procedures.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker:

• Makes mental health diagnoses as part of a treatment plan as needed.
• Provides individual/group clinical supervision to MSWs and student interns.
• Prepares and maintains electronic medical records; provides written and oral reports and handoffs.
• Conducts psychosocial assessments and identifies barriers to care; develops treatment plans with interdisciplinary teams.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to implement psychosocial treatment plans and coordinate referrals.
• Helps patients/families cope with illness-related environmental and psychological issues.
• Manages independently assigned caseloads of varying acuity.
• Engages in case finding, attends team conferences, and participates in rounds as needed.
• Provides supportive counseling, crisis intervention, and other therapeutic services.
• Provides psychoeducation for adaptation to diagnosis, illness, treatment, or prognosis; assists in transition from youth to adult services.
• Participates in quality assurance and community improvement related to social work services.

Social Work Clinician:

• Prepares and maintains electronic medical records; provides reports and hand-offs.
• Conducts psychosocial assessments and identifies barriers to care.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to plan and implement psychosocial treatment plans and coordinate referrals.
• Helps patients/families cope with illness-related issues.
• Manages assigned caseload; attends team conferences and rounds as needed.
• Provides supportive counseling, grief counseling, crisis intervention, and other therapeutic services.
• Provides psychoeducation to patients and families regarding adaptation to diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis; assists in transition from youth to adult services.
• Participates in quality assurance and community improvement related to social work services.

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities, along with required licenses or certifications, is qualifying.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker:

• Education:
  
  Master s degree in Social Work from an accredited program.
• Experience:
  
  Two (2) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.
• License/Certification:
  Valid California LCSW license issued by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Social Work Clinician:

• Education:
  
  Master s degree in Social Work (MSW) from an accredited program.
• Experience:
  
  Successful completion of Master s program prior to state date.

Preferred skills: Pediatric social work experience; healthcare experience

These are the observable and measurable attributes and skills required to perform the essential functions of the job. They are demonstrated through qualifying experience, education, or licensure/certification.

• Ability to apply theories, principles and practices of medical social work and social services delivery systems in a hospital setting.
• Ability to gather data to assess needs of patients and families.
• Ability to manage a caseload, recall case details, maintain confidentiality, and act in emergencies or stressful situations.
• Ability to provide written case narratives and reports.
• Knowledge of assessment, interviewing, and counseling techniques.
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