Medical Social Worker/LICSW - Providence, St. Peter Medical Center

Job overview

Provides a wide range of clinical social work services in a primary care, inpatient care or home health setting, including support and consultation to care team in managing patients. Evaluates psychosocial assets and deficits for the purpose of enabling the patient to maintain the greatest level of independence. Coordinates with others to establish a plan of care. Provides short-term counseling, teaching and brokering with other resources for care giving needs. This role involves providing comprehensive social work services in various healthcare settings. The Medical Social Worker will assess patient and family needs, collaborate with care teams, and develop care plans to enhance patient independence and well-being.

What you'll do

• Provide appropriate social work interventions to all age patients and their families including but not limited to psychosocial assessment, brief individual or family, advocacy, linkage, referral, group work, case coordination, and long-term care planning and placement.
• Consultation and coordination with multidisciplinary team of care professionals and primary care site medical/nursery staff, to include family conferences, care conferences, team meetings etc.
• Assesses patient and family needs for care and communicates with other health care providers appropriately.
• Collects data relevant to visit with ongoing assessment throughout the duration of care.
• Evaluate psychosocial assets and deficits for the purpose of enabling the patient to maintain the greatest level of independence.
• Evaluates patients/family needs through timely assessment, communication and observation.
• Modifies plan of care through assessment based upon patient/care systems response.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

medical social worker

licsw

providence

st. peter medical center

olympia

wa

kaiser permanente

full-time

day shift

onsite

social work

clinical social work

patient care

family support

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

About the employer

Kaiser Permanente is hiring for this role. Industry: Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists). Sector: 62.