Social Worker Licensed

Job Title: Social Worker Licensed

Location: Newark Beth Israel Medical Ctr

Department Name: NBI - Valerie Fund

Req #: 0000262299

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $76,500.00 - $94,300.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Licensed Social Worker

Provides direct clinical social work services to patients and their families in an interdisciplinary team approach.

As a Licensed Social Worker, a typical day might include the following:

• Accurately documents in MIDAS+ ongoing social work services and reassessment reflecting patient's level of functioning, identification of support networks, development of problems or needs and discharge planning.
• Assists with initial assessment on bio-ethics case consultation and ongoing end-of-life intervention as necessary.
• Attends educational activities to keep current with social work practice and to maintain required state licensure or certification.
• Consults on a regular basis with the interdisciplinary team concerning social work intervention and attends interdisciplinary team rounds to provide feedback on social work issues and activities to help ensure a safe and timely discharge.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of crisis intervention theory and effectively assists patient/family in defining the crisis situation and establishing a sense of temporary equilibrium.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of medical terminology, acute and chronic illnesses and related processes, and understands the impact on the patients' bio-psychosocial systems, length of stay and individual care.
• Demonstrates a working theoretical knowledge of human behavior and develops an appropriate social work intervention plan that addresses the patient's age specific needs.
• Demonstrates skills as a patient-centered advocate, change agent, facilitator, mediator and problem solver depending on the patient/family needs.
• Identifies and collaborates with legal staff, Director of Case Management and Risk Management on issues of: incompetence, guardianship, abuse, neglect and guarantor decisions.
• Identifies potential barriers to discharge and collaborates with Supervisor and interdisciplinary team members to resolve in a timely manner.
• Interviews patients, family members and significant others to obtain relevant information for the completion of a psychosocial assessment and Social Work treatment plan.
• Maintains current knowledge of National Patient Safety Goals and supports a culture of safety and provides a secondary role in ensuring core quality indicators is met.
• Participates in patient conferences, educational conferences, hospital and community committees or task forces, performance improvement teams as assigned
• Provides information to patients, families and interdisciplinary team members regarding available community resources and other post hospitalization options and make referrals in accordance with patient choice needs. Responds to referral sources in a timely manner.
• Provides psychotherapeutic counseling to individuals, family and groups, as needed, to enhance coping skills with the patient's/family's reaction to the onset of or ongoing adjustment with a chronic illness or injury, post hospital care needs, end of life issues, and lifestyle changes.

This Role Might Be For You If:

• You excel at multi-agency collaboration and can confidently advocate for your patients with external community networks.
• You set a high bar for clinical records, taking pride in thorough, accurate, and timely documentation.
• You believe that true psychological healing is optimized and strengthened when clinical expertise meets deep kindness and empathy.

To be considered for this opportunity, you must have:

• Graduation from an accredited graduate school of social work with an MSW (masters in social work) degree.
• State licensure required by the NJ State board of social work examiners.
• Licensed social worker (LSW) or licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) depending upon years of social work experience and clinical course work (LSW may render clinical social work services under the direct supervision of an LCSW).
• Three or more years experience in a hospital setting preferred.
• Successful completion of all Orientation Programs.

Special Physical Demands

• Comfortability with extensive walking and talking
• Mental demands include regularly dealing with the dying and seriously ill patients and their families.