What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psych Social Worker (MSW) Days position at Holy Name Medical Center?
Description
Social Worker, MSW
Welcome to Holy Name, a medical center where innovation is not just a goal — it's a commitment. Here, medical excellence thrives, allowing hope to reign supreme and leaving no room for fear. At our hospital, every patient is cared for with undivided attention — because healing every soul is our sole focus.
Holy Name is New Jersey's only independent Catholic health system, comprising a 361-bed acute care hospital, a renowned cancer center, a state-of-the-art fitness center, a residential hospice, a prestigious nursing school, and an extensive physician network. Healing at Holy Name goes beyond medicine and technology – it is infused with faith, conviction, compassion, and a commitment to educating the next generation of healthcare professionals through graduate medical education, a Pharmacy Residency Program, and our Institute for Simulation Learning. Our mission to provide care for the body, mind, and soul spans education, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and overall wellness. This is at the core of who we are and what we do, and we've done it this way across generations, every single day, for nearly 100 years. Every innovation, medical breakthrough, and groundbreaking treatment is powered by some of the best minds in medicine, ensuring nothing is left on the table or the road to recovery.
A Brief Overview
Core responsibilities include conducting psychosocial assessments, coordinating care, providing counselling and psychotherapy, intervening in client crisis situations, and educating patients and families about their treatment plan and the available resources and support systems. Works collaboratively as a part of the multidisciplinary team to provide palliative education and support to patients, families, and members of the healthcare team
What you will do
- Psychosocial assessment including patient and family history, presenting concerns, and assessment of strengths, needs and vulnerabilities.
- Assesses patient / family / caregiver (PFC) physical, psychological, socioeconomic, spiritual and symptom management needs.
- Assesses Patient / Family / Caregiver advance care planning needs and actively participate in goals of care conversations.
- Develops a social work treatment plan based on a biopsychosocial and spiritual assessment of PFC including variables such as environment, support systems, family dynamics, roles & relationships, finances, culture, perception of illness, cognitive and emotional integration of diagnosis, prognosis, history of loss, and expressed needs.
- Provides liaison function between system-wide outpatient palliative care team and inpatient palliative care team, discharge planning, and social service departments.
- Provides liaison function between palliative care team and community hospice, home care agencies, long-term care facilities and other community services as needed.
- Participates in palliative care quality improvement initiatives.
- Facilitates communication between patient and / or family and team including active participation in family meetings.
- Functions as an integral team member by receiving and offering feedback, building respect and trust.
- Designs and provides education on palliative care to other health care professionals
- Keeps current with social work and health care developments and seeks to enhance job related knowledge through involvement with local, state, and national palliative care initiatives
- Provides ongoing psychotherapeutic intervention, counseling, and education to alleviate emotional factors related to loss, complex medical issues, adjustment to chronic / terminal disease, and anticipatory grief.
- All other duties as assigned
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Holy Name is a mission-driven facility whose quality standards and philosophy are rooted in the principles of its founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. Those principles are exercised daily by the Medical Center's dedicated and talented team of physicians, nurses, allied health employees, and a wide variety of non-clinical administrative and operational staff members. Holy Name is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
