Clinical Social Worker

4 weeks ago

Boston, Massachusetts, United States Tufts Medical Center Full time
Job Profile Summary

This role focuses on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of patients and can provide services if necessary. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Social Work duties:

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provides social work assistance to patients and families relating to illness, disease, hospitalization and life events in all areas of service as a member of multi-disciplinary team and in liaison with community resources.
  • Responsibilities also include identification, assessment, and coordination of cases and anticipation of needs related to illness, hospitalization, finances, education, and home/community service.
  • A professional individual contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and programs.
Job Overview

This position provides a range of clinical social work services to patients/clients and families in inpatient, ambulatory and community settings utilizing individual, family or group modalities and practicing within the guidelines of professional social work ethics and standards.

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Master's degree in Social Work.
  • Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW).
  • Five (5) years of related experience, including one (1) year supervisory experience.
Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Provides psychosocial assessment of the individual and family, including limitations, deficits and strengths in their current situation and environment, as well as functional level.
  • Develops treatment plans with appropriate and competent interventions.
  • Responsible for psychosocial assessments and interventions in crisis situations that often involve issues of suicide, homicide, family violence, elder or child abuse.
  • Demonstrates sound clinical judgment in assessing the patient's needs for long-term care, including evaluating the home and family situation, helping the patient and family to develop an in-home care plan, exploring alternatives to in-home care and arranging for placement if necessary.
  • Provides treatment, therapy, psycho-education and/or counseling utilizing individual, family or group modalities.
  • Provides information, referral and creative resource acquisition for specific individual and family needs both within the Hospital and in the community as indicated.
  • Collaborates with and provides psychosocial consultation to the health care team to promote a smooth, coordinated plan of care.
  • Identifies psychosocial issues that may impede progress and makes recommendations to the team regarding patient/family care and management.
  • Treats patients and families with dignity and respect at all times.
  • Offers time for questions and answers; demonstrates empathy in communication while working toward optimal health goals.
  • Provides outreach, case finding/screening for high-risk issues that may impact on patient's progress, participation in plan, discharge or ability to utilize resources.
  • Assists with discharge planning issues to ensure continuity of care.
  • Formulates, coordinates and implements the psychosocial components of outpatient care.
  • Consults, collaborates and communicates with a wide range of social, governmental and legal agencies, courts, schools, clinics, other hospitals, physicians and other sources.
  • Serves as a patient/family advocate with a variety of systems both internally and externally as required.
  • Ensures clinical documentation is complete and according to departmental standards.
  • Performs other administrative documentation and record keeping, such as accountability and statistical reports, billing forms, student intern evaluations, performance evaluations, etc. in complete and timely manner.
  • Initiates policy and program development in specific service area or team, utilizing knowledge of state-of-the-art programs and promoting social work values such as patient self-determination and social justice.
  • Actively engages in the regularly scheduled meetings, programs and activities of the Department.
  • Represents the profession and Department in hospital and community meetings and committees.
  • Participates in social work professional education, supervision and teaching activities; supervises or trains staff social workers, student interns, house staff, nurses, medical students, and volunteers as required.
  • Maintains collaborative, team relationships with peers and colleagues in order to effectively contribute to the working groups achievement of goals, and to help foster a positive work environment.
  • Continually monitors, assesses and modifies his/her own social work practice and programs.
  • Conducts quality improvement activities and research regarding service delivery and effectiveness of interventions, as required.
  • Conducts or participates in professional organizations, grant writing, teaching, public presentations, seminars and workshops.
  • Ensures compliance within guidelines set forth by regulatory agencies (DPH, ERISA etc.) and demonstrates compliance with Home Health Foundation policies and procedures.

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