Social Worker

Job description

The Social Worker is that member of the core interdisciplinary group whose primary function is to perform an assessment of psychosocial symptoms of the patient and family, develop psychosocial outcomes for alleviating identified symptoms and help provide the psychoeducation, supportive counseling and casework interventions needed to meet these outcomes. The Social Worker also provides psychosocial education and consultation to the IDG. - Participates in the preparation, evaluation and execution of the interdisciplinary plan of care to assure that the highest quality psychosocial care is provided to patients/families and that continuity and comprehensiveness of care are - Performs bio-psycho-social-spiritual assessments of patient/families, rather than diagnostic - Provides individual and family supportive counseling, rather than - Refers patient and family to appropriate community resources as - Maintains accurate and timely documentation in the patient medical - Attends weekly team meeting tor plan of care - Participates in patient case - Provides psychosocial education and consultation to the core - Participates in psychosocial supervision meetings and other trainings. May provid...