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Clinical Social Worker

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center

Clinical Social Worker

Los Angeles, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Clinical Social Worker Department: Case Management Schedule: Full time Shift: Varies Hours: 10:30a to 7p Job Details: - 1-2 years experience required Join a team dedicated to quality care, and be part of building our healthy future! CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center will soon move to a new, state-of-the-art patient Tower. We have a long tradition of providing high quality care to our patients and have been recognized by Healthgrades in Patient Safety, Labor and Delivery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Treatment of Heart Failure, Hip Fracture Treatment, Back Surgery and more. CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center is dedicated to providing quality care to the Hollywood community and beyond, so join us on this exciting journey! This position offers the opportunity to join our team of caring professionals and become part of building our healthy future. To join our caring team of professionals, please submit an online application. Reporting to the Nurse Manage, with direction from the Registered Nurse, assists the surgeon/obstetrician and Registered Nurse during surgical and obstetrical procedures by performing surgical scrub duties. Job Summary · Counseling and psychosocial services are provided to the patients, their families, significant others to meet their medically related social and emotional needs as they impinge on their medical condition, treatment, recovery and safe transition from one care environment to another. General Duties · Demonstrates knowledge of age specific care, including but not limited to, identifying the need for additional safety measures, physiological normal values / reading; and assessing skin integrity, behavior, motor skills and / or activities that place patients at risk as well as communicates effectively in a clear, concise, understandable manner. Applicable for the populations checked below: Infant (x) Pediatric (x) Adult (x) Geriatric (x) · Verbalizes and/or demonstrates knowledge of clinical information and practicing essential to assuring provision of age-specific care to infants, pediatric, adult, and geriatrics. · Enhances professional growth and development through the participation in education programs, staff meetings, in services/workshops and successful completion and maintenance of required certifications of specialty areas. · Assesses the patient's social, emotional, functional, and financial needs and provides brief psychosocial counseling and crisis intervention to assist patients and family to cope with changes related to hospitalization and/or medical condition. · Acts as a liaison and advocate for patient's and family. · Makes referrals to community agencies pertinent to patient's needs. · Performs high risk screening for obstetrics, prenatal, post-partum, neo-natal, and pediatric area, as well as suicidal/overdose, oncology, and AIDS patients. · Assesses and reports cases of suspected abuse/neglect to the Department of Children and Family Services, Adult Protective Services or LAPD as indicated. · Assists with discharge planning to patients with complex psychosocial issues. · Collects and revises information on community health and welfare resources. · Documents all interventions in the medical record and completes required statistics · Serves as preceptor to MSW student interns. Position Requirement · Master's Degree of Social Work from an accredited school of social work · BLS card · Hospital Fire card Language Skills · Ability to communicate in English and understand verbal and written instructions. Skills · One (1) year experience as a Social Worker in an acute hospital or related field. This may include professional as well as field work experience. · CCS paneled provider preferred · CPI training required within first 30 days of hire Please disable your pop - up blocker before starting the application process.

  • Industry
    Hospital and Health Care