Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Social Work Clinician, Obstetric Care Clinic

Company Description

At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, we know world-renowned care begins with world-class caring. That’s why we combine advanced technologies and breakthrough discoveries with family-centered care. It’s why we provide our caregivers with continuing education and state-of-the-art facilities, like the newly remodeled Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. And it’s why we need caring, committed people on our team – like you.

Join us on our mission to heal humanity, one child and family at a time.

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Job Description

This is a Fixed Term position – 5 years (60 months)

This paragraph summarizes the general nature, level and purpose of the job.

As a member of a multidisciplinary health care team, medical social workers provide psychosocial interventions to patients as well as their families receiving services within any department of the LPCHS. Work typically addresses a variety of biopsychosocial issues and includes an assessment of the social needs as related to the patient’s health status and the collaborative development of a treatment plan, including advocacy within the organization and community, counseling, referrals and practical assistance necessary to accomplish desired objectives.

Provides consultation, orientation, and training to health care staff on the effects of biopsychosocial, cultural, and economic issues on the management of patient/client health needs. Advocates for social work core values and ethics within Stanford Medicine and the larger community.

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  May provide individual/group clinical supervision to MSWs and student interns, as assigned.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Prepares and maintains electronic medical records in accordance with department and/or health system policies.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Provides written and oral reports and hand-offs.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Conducts psychosocial assessment of patients/families upon admission, annually, and/or as clinically indicated to evaluate social, emotional, and physical needs by applying social work theories and techniques. Identifies and addresses barriers to care.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care teams to devise, develop, and implement patient/family psychosocial treatment plans, coordinating referrals to specialty and social services including entitlement programs and other care delivery systems, and recording progress notes and the provision of continuity of care.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Helps patients/families cope with environmental and psychological issues of illness.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Manages independently assigned caseload of varying clinical acuity.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Engages in case finding for patients/families with potential psychosocial needs. Attends team conferences and participates in interdisciplinary rounds as needed.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Provides supportive counseling, grief counseling, crisis intervention, and other therapeutic services to assist patients and families to face challenges such as coping with illness, processing medical information, and changes in the level of functioning and care needs.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Provides psychoeducation to patients and families regarding adaptation to the patient’s diagnosis, illness, treatment, and/or prognosis. Assist patients and families in the transition from youth to adult services.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
  Participates in quality assurance and community improvement as they relate to social work services or needs of patients and families and contributes to the review and development of written policies, procedures, or guidelines related to social work services.
• Social Work Clinician:
  Prepares and maintains electronic medical records in accordance with department and/or health system policies.
• Social Work Clinician:
  Provides written and oral reports and hand-offs.
• Social Work Clinician:
  Conducts psychosocial assessment of patients/families upon admission, annually, and/or as clinically indicated to evaluate social, emotional and physical…