Social Worker - Part Time - Nights

$47 - $64/Yr

Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley - Pleasanton, CA

Full-time

Pleasanton, CA

About the position

Provides Masters' level clinical social to address patient/family psychosocial adjustment to illness and post-hospital care. Provides information, referral, and consultative services to patients, families and hospital staff. Population Served: Acute medical and surgical patients including adolescent, young adult, middle-aged adults, geriatric. Units covered include the Emergency Department, medical, med-surg, ICU, Maternal-Child, NICU, Pediatrics.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates with Case Manager and interdisciplinary team to assure appropriate action is taken to patient and family's psychosocial and discharge planning needs for discharge.
• Maintains ongoing communication with interdisciplinary staff and attending physicians to address these needs.
• Understands and supports the rights of the patient/family.
• Facilitates conflict resolution and engages others in problem-solving discussions.
• Conducts initial assessment of new patients to evaluate social, emotional, and physical needs by applying social work theories and techniques.
• Interviews and evaluates patients and family members.
• Identifies factors which may interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from treatment.
• Provides supportive counseling, grief counseling, crisis intervention and other appropriate therapeutic services to assist patients and families in coping with presenting symptoms and problems.
• Provides education to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient's diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation.
• Coordinates home health, skilled nursing, durable medical equipment, facility placement, including 5150's.
• Participates as requested on the Hospital's Bioethics Committee.
• Documents patient information per hospital and external regulatory requirements.
• Facilitates appropriate planning for newborns with alternative discharge plans.
• Identifies potential problems with current or new practice, peer performance, policies, functions, services or Risk Management issues and immediately communicates this to supervisors.
• Identifies and makes provisions for pediatric and adolescent patients' academic education needs.
• Performs all duties and responsibilities in accordance with the C-I-CARE Standards of the Hospital.

Requirements

• Master's in Social Work from accredited Social Work Program.
• One-year medical social work experience, prefer acute care.
• Social work license (LCSW) preferred.
• BLS - Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated clinical skills with health-related issues.
• Demonstrated discharge planning skills including planning for home health, durable medical equipment, skilled nursing and placement.
• Ability to work independently and function effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Knowledge of available resources as well as federal and state medical assistance programs.
• Strong understanding of the psychosocial needs of patients.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Diversity and inclusion commitment