Clinical Social Worker LCSW - job 1 of 4

Overview

St. Joseph's Medical Center is a member of Dignity Health. The word dignity perfectly defines what our organization stands for showing respect for all people by providing excellent care. St. Joseph's Medical Center was founded in 1899 under the direction of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael and is a not-for-profit, fully-accredited regional hospital with 395 beds, a physician staff of over 400 and more than 2400 employees. Specializing in cardiovascular care, comprehensive cancer services, and women and children's services, including neonatal intensive care, St. Joseph's is the largest hospital, as well as the largest private employer, in Stockton, California. Nationally recognized as a quality leader, St. Joseph's is consistently chosen as the most preferred hospital by local consumers.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Responsibilities

Job Summary:

The palliative care social worker is responsible for performing social work assessments and interventions as needed for palliative care inpatients, outpatients, and emergency department patients.

They are dedicated to patient and family centered care that values personal self-determination, skilled at managing multiple priorities at once, and engaging in creative, compassionate, and ethical problem solving. As a member of a multidisciplinary health team, they perform comprehensive assessments and develop treatment plans that integrate the medical, social, and resource issues that impact individual patients, families, and at risk populations.

The functions of the palliative care social worker includes crisis intervention, patient/family intervention, high risk screening, brief counseling, referring for financial or other identified reource needs, arrange and facilitate family/patient or patient representative meetings with the multidisciplinary health care team as needed, assist in post-acute placement on complex discharges and engagement of the appropriate community agencies or community resources when high risk patients are identified.

The palliative care social worker establishes and maintains professional relationships with physicians, members of care coordination team, nursing staff, county agencies, community resources, patients, and families. This position will be required to serve on hospital committees and take part in developing and presenting in-services to hospital staff, medical staff, and resident physicians.

This position will be required to serve as a standing member of the Ethics Committee. This position requires providing care/service to all age group patient population in a manner that demonstrates an understanding of the functional/developmental age of the individual served. This position requires the active participation in fulfilling the Mission of the Organization. It is expected that the employee will demonstrate behavior consistent with Organization's core values. The employee shall support the Organization's strategic plan and the goals and directions of the Performance Improvement Plan (PIP).

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Two (2) years of clinical social work experience
• Masters in Social Work from an accredited organization
• Current California LCSW License
• ELNEC Training required within 1 year

Preferred:

• Palliative Care experience