Social Worker MSW

at  RWJBarnabas Health

Job Title: Social Worker Licensed
Location: Clara Maass Medical Center
Req#: 0000158386
Status: Per Diem
Shift: Day
Department name: Behavioral Health

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Graduation from an accredited graduate school of social work with an MSW master’s in social work degree.
• State licensure is required by the NJ State board of Social Work Examiners.
• Licensed clinical social worker LCSW or licensed social worker LSW.
• One- or two years experience in a hospital setting preferred.

Preferred:

SCHEDULING REQUIREMENTS (NON-EXEMPT POSITIONS):

• 8:00 5:00
• Days
• Per Diem

• Provides direct clinical social work services to patients and their families in an interdisciplinary team approach.
• Provide psychosocial assessment and care plans for patients and families.
• Identify barriers to care and develop strategies.
• Provide education for patients and families to ensure adequate age-appropriate knowledge of coagulation disorders, complications, and treatment.
• Maintains updated education library and educational resources for patients/families.
• Coordinate and conduct school visits with patients, parents, and the hemophilia center team.
• Act as a liaison to the school and child study team for psychosocial and educational issues relating to patients’ acting disorders.
• Delivery of Support Services, individual, couple, and family counseling.
• Organize and facilitate support and education groups.
• Participate in weekly interdisciplinary clinics and team meetings.
• Provide expertise on psychosocial aspects of coagulation disorders to the hemophilia team.
• Coordinating community resources is necessary for maintaining the continuity of quality medical care by building and maintaining relationships with internal/external resources, and making referrals to community agencies and entitlement programs.
• Understand of all stages of growth and development to assess each patient’s age and specific needs to provide individual treatment and care.
• Evaluates patient s medical, psychosocial and social condition with respect to their current needs to establish appropriate post-hospital care plans and any services that may be necessary while hospitalized for patients diagnosed with inherited bleeding and clotting disorders
• Follows the documentation policy of the social work department