Masters Social Worker
Job Title Masters Social Worker Location : Tulsa, OK Duration : Permanent Shift : Days, 40 hrs/ week General Description: Under general supervision, provides nursing care in a hospital to a variety of patients with health problems ranging from simple to complex. Job Summary: Provides skilled interventions for: · The support and/or resolution of patient and family crises. · Problem-solving and decision-making. · Advocacy and facilitation necessitated by life-changing events (adoption, guardianship, abuse, placement, bereavement). · Mediation of risk factors and coping with disease or disability. · Other psychosocial and/or socioeconomic issues while adhering to Client and departmental policies/procedures including those on Infection Control, Confidentiality, · Patient's Rights, Advance Directives, Disaster Protocol, Safety and Fire Prevention, Attendance, and Punctuality. Job Responsibilities: · Receives referrals and assesses in a timely manner those patients and families/significant others who are referred to social work service. · Integrates social work plan into overall patient care through interdisciplinary collaboration. · Provides skilled Social Work services in the areas of comprehensive case management, discharge planning, continuing care services, advocacy, clinical social work services, including crisis intervention, and patient/family education utilizing individual and family modalities. · Provides skilled social work services in the areas of abuse and neglect, advanced directives, psychiatric placements/issues, end of life issues pertinent to the assigned patient population. · Understands and utilizes hospital and community-based resources and entitlements. · Refers patients, families/significant others, and hospital staff to appropriate services to ensure continuity and quality of care. · Develops and utilizes specialized knowledge of resources related to the needs of specific patient populations. · Facilitates efforts to obtain insurance coverage for hospital and community-based services. · Documents of the patient care plan, staff interventions and outcomes promptly and completely in the patient's medical record. · Completes statistical reports as required by the department and other programs. · Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to develop complex discharge plans prospectively and conduct transitional planning for patients moving to nursing home and other facilities. · Continues and encourages professional development through supervision, attendance at hospital and community conferences and mandatory in-service training with the intent of enhancing knowledge, sensitivity, and self-awareness about special issues related to culture, race, gender, religion or sexual orientation. · Participate in community education and support group activities as approved.
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