Social Service Clinician, FT, Days

Job Description

Responsibility

Provides a well-focused psychosocial and discharge planning assessment of patient and family to develop a treatment plan and goals, appropriate to the age of the patient.

• Engages and communicates with patients and families in a direct, empathic manner adapting approaches as necessary according to their age specific sensory, cognitive, and social abilities/needs.
• Can gather, assess, and interpret psychosocial data demonstrating awareness of age specific factors such as signs of abuse, educational needs, functional deficits, etc.

• Completes discharge planning and psychosocial assessment resulting in an identification of the patient’s current and as appropriate past life crisis and probable discharge plan needs.
• Completes appropriate intervention plans on the interdisciplinary treatment plan within 72 hours.

Responsibility-Master Level

Demonstrates thorough knowledge base of clinical practice through written documentation and contributions at team meetings and patient related meetings.

• Can advocate and communicate the family’s expectations and perspectives and the impact of stress and illness on their individual and family functioning.
• Identifies and contributes knowledge of the impact of ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, gender and sexual orientation on treatment and well-being.
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of different therapy modalities depending on the age of the patient by written and verbal contributions to treatment and discharge planning.

Responsibility Bachelor Level

In collaboration with team, contributes to defining the need for further resources or services.

• Can communicate data to the treatment team in a clear and concise manner.
• Participates in team meetings and huddles as needed.
• Demonstrates understanding of the impact of ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, gender, sexual orientation on treatment and well-being.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of concrete services and discharge planning needs for adolescence, adults, and geriatric population.
• Can advocate and communicate the family’s expectations and perspectives and the impact of stress and illness on their individual and family functioning.

Responsibility -Master Level

Implements the treatment plan to achieve the treatment goals relative to age specific needs

• Provides information, education and support to patients, families, and other involved professionals in the treatment process to enhance their under-standing of the patient’s illness, prognosis, treatment and recommendations, e.g., ability to provide age-specific data to other caregivers, e.g., knowledge of how to access community resources, knows eligibility criteria, types of services and clinical information necessary for referral, key diagnostic and psychosocial data.
• Demonstrates a consistent ability to use a variety of modalities effectively including crisis intervention, individual, family, group and couple treatment.
• Demonstrates a consistent ability to focus, structure, and time interventions according to a dynamic understanding of the patient and family

Responsibility-Bachelor Level

Implements the treatment plan to achieve the treatment goals relative to age specific needs

• Provides information, education and support to patients, families, and other involved professionals in the treatment process to enhance their under-standing of the patient’s illness, prognosis, treatment and recommendations, e.g., ability to provide age-specific data to other caregivers, e.g., knowledge of how to access community resources, knows eligibility criteria, types of services and clinical information necessary for referral, key diagnostic and psychosocial data.
• Demonstrates a consistent ability to focus, structure, and time interventions.

Responsibility

Coordinates with treatment team in facilitating an optimal discharge plan for patients demonstrating knowledge of general and age specific resources including availability, eligibility, cost factors and types of service

• Assists team to identify appropriate resources that meet patient/family level of care needs that are within patient’s financial, transportation or other constraints.
• Takes an active role in providing continued communication and information between the treatment team and community agencies and professionals (unless delegated to another team member).
• Keeps current knowledge of community resources as demonst