Clinical Social Worker - Tampa

Overview:

Provides expertise in a crisis intervention situation and assesses for potential abuse/neglect of vulnerable patients.

Responsibilities:

• Identifies appropriate discharge social work needs for assigned patients (providing resources, community support, ensuring advance directives/next of kin is identified).
• Partners with community agencies to coordinate care across the continuum to offer options, tools, and resources to allow patients the opportunity to achieve the desired goals.
• Assists with patient evaluation and treatment to further their understanding of significant social and emotional factors underlying a patient’s health problem(s).
• Acts as a patient advocate: investigates and reports adverse occurrences and performs staff education related to resource deployment, discharge planning and psychosocial aspects of healthcare delivery.
• Assists care team and family with end of life conversations, offers grief counseling, and performs hospice consults
• Assist with determination when care conference is appropriate; coordinates scheduling with team & caregivers
• Plan and support patients in coping with emotional, economic, social, and environmental challenges.
• Assess for the need/eligibility for financial assessment and refer to the appropriate programs.
• Performs discharge planning activities, including referrals to Home Health, Skilled Nursing, Inpatient Rehab, DME, etc. for

• Documents patient data, plan, interventions and outcomes according to department guidelines.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by management within job scope.

Qualifications:

Master's Degree in Social Work is required.

At least one year of recent clinical experience applicable to the designated population served is required.