SOCIAL WORKER

Job Summary:
We are seeking a professional clinical social worker to provide comprehensive care to patients at Cary Medical Center. This individual will evaluate case situations, develop and implement treatment plans, and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to ensure optimal patient outcomes.

Essential Job Duties:

1. Provide professional social work services to inpatients and manage referrals from outpatient settings.
2. Facilitate adjustment of patients to the impact of illness and promote maximum benefit from healthcare services.
3. Evaluate case situations and present information to the Interdisciplinary Team.
4. Ensure delivery of care that respects individual rights and preferences.
5. Maintain high standards of patient care using professional specialty standards of care and practice.
6. Prioritize a safe environment for all patients.
7. Evaluate patients with psychiatric and/or mental disorders and identify strategies for management while in the hospital.
8. Make appropriate referrals and follow-up care.
9. Provide case management functions to new mothers under 18 and their infants.
10. Understand the needs of the elderly and provide discharge planning to nursing homes, boarding homes, and rehabilitation services.
11. Coordinate patient care activities with other departments contributing to patient care.
12. Communicate effectively and have good organizational skills.
13. Display understanding of psychodynamics of all age groups and treatment strategies for common health problems.
14. Ensure shared accountability for professional practice.
15. Confers with other departments and management staff before instituting new policies and procedures.
16. Ensure own professional compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulatory agencies and with professional licensure.
17. Maintain regular communications with medical staff physicians in the care and management of their patients.
18. Organize interdisciplinary team meetings for patients when appropriate.
19. Provide one-on-one counseling or group counseling as needed.
20. Help patients modify attitudes and patterns of behavior by increasing self-understanding.
21. Provide on-the-spot crisis management for patients who feel out of control behavior.
22. Maintain availability to staff for mental debriefing with difficult cases.
23. Keep abreast of new techniques and counseling strategies.
24. Maintain current knowledge about variable resources in the community.
25. Set priorities on current caseload and services.
26. Respond timely for crisis calls when in hospital.
27. Participate in department meetings to solve problems and improve processes.
28. Be knowledgeable of department policies and procedures and participate in their updates.
29. Develop appropriate policies and procedures related to social services.
30. Participate in the orientation of new staff members.
31. Help identify patient/family related ethical issues with referral to the Ethics Committee.
32. Participate on hospital and medical staff committees when requested.
33. Collaborate effectively with all members of the healthcare team.
34. Act as a liaison with AMHC for Community Meetings as needed.
35. Record pertinent social data and information on patients being managed.