Licensed Clinical Social Worker Full Time

Core Competencies

• Completes Psychosocial Assessments to identify barriers affecting optimal patient/family functioning and to develop appropriate treatment plan/interventions and linkage to resources.

• Assesses for abuse/neglect, complies with mandatory reporting laws; and serves as a liaison with responsible agencies. Logs all reports made into Departmental Abuse Log books.

• Provides crisis intervention to patients and families.

• Completes needs assessment for patients, families and staff (as needed) and provides appropriate clinical intervention and linkage to community resources.

• Provides coping skills assessment for patients, families and staff and provides appropriate education, cognitive restructuring and/or counseling as needed.

• Provides counseling as indicated, including supportive counseling, end-of-life counseling and bereavement counseling.

• Provides education, advocacy, and linkage to patients, families and staff as indicated.

• Collaborates with case managers/interdisciplinary team to provide patients and families with the most appropriate treatment plan, intervention and resources.

• Provides assistance with complex discharge planning in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Team to develop a safe, realistic and timely discharge plan.

• Provides assistance with scheduling patient care conferences, and attends patient care conferences as needed.

• Provides education and assistance with Advance Directives to patients, families, staff and community members as needed.

• Attends and participates in interdisciplinary rounds on assigned unit, as indicated.

• Attends and participates in hospital committee meetings, departmental staff meetings, and shared decision making councils as requested.

• Facilitates continuity of care via collaboration with coworkers; members of the interdisciplinary treatment team and outside agencies.

• Assists with updating and communicating pertinent community resources.

• Maintains and submits monthly Social Services Work Activity Sheet.

• Provides clinical social services to population served.

• Ensures department specific patient safety.

• Obtains continuing education to promote self-growth, to maintain clinical competency, and to meet current licensure and certification requirements..

• Seeks clinical consultation from Licensed Clinical Social Work team and Social Services Manager as appropriate.

• Mentors, supports and provides consultation to Licensed Clinical Social Workers as needed.

• Provides new hire social workers with guidance, training, orientation and support, as appropriate.

• Participates in orientation and training of interdisciplinary team members, as related to social services as requested.

• Develops and provides education, as needed.

• Demonstrates role in department specific patient safety.

• Reports errors, knowing that Torrance Memorial engages in a positive environment for the correction of errors (Non-punitive).

• Adheres to the National Association of Social Workers’ (NASW) Code of Ethics and Joint Commission requirements.

• Adheres to the California Board of Behavioral Sciences requirements.

• Remains flexible with schedule to meet departmental staffing needs. Assists with standby, weekends and holidays as needed.

• Attain/maintain CCS (California Children's Services) Paneling, if requested. Assesses all patients under the age of 21 for CCS eligibility and submits application/SAR (Service Authorization Request) as indicated.

Department Specific Competencies

• Participates in formal/informal peer review to ensure competence and develop professional goals.
  
  

Education

Experience

License / Certification Requirements